“A monster is not such a terrible thing to be. From the Latin root monstrum, a divine messenger of catastrophe, then adapted by the Old French to mean an animal of myriad origins: centaur, griffin, satyr. To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both shelter and warning at once.”
— Ocean Vuong, from “A Letter To My Mother That She Will Never Read”, published in The New Yorker (via soracities)
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Gerald Edward Moira (1867‑1959)
The Silent Voice
In “The art of Gerald Moira” from 1922 Harold Watkins describes the painting:
“The first picture, an imaginative figure-piece, was founded on these lines:
‘Thereto the silent voice replied,
Look up, look up – the world is wide.’ and showed a remarkable ability in the painter to take a given conventional subject and interpret it along his own unconventional lines. There is a quality in the picture which was well expressed by a critic, writing in the time of its exhibition at Burlington House: ‘In the blue moonlight, close about the dazed and doleful figure of a seated girl, a ‘silent voice’, or half perceived figure, whispers a coming comfort. Weird, haunting, fascinating it is as a page from L’Intruse of Maeterlinck.” – via
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