Musings and Mementos

Artist of the surreal and a writer of other realms...
“I looked dizzily, and beheld a wide expanse of ocean, whose waters wore so inky a hue as to bring at once to my mind the Nubian geographer’s account of the Mare Tnebrarum. A Panorama more deplorably desolate no human imagination can conceive. To the right and left, as far as the eye could reach, there lay outstretched, like ramparts of the world, lines of horridly black and beetling cliff, whose character of gloom was but the more forcibly illustrated by the surf which reared high up against it, its white and ghastly crest, howling and shrieking for ever.” -Edgar Allan Poe, “A Descent Into the Maelstrom” Art: Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog (1818)

“I looked dizzily, and beheld a wide expanse of ocean, whose waters wore so inky a hue as to bring at once to my mind the Nubian geographer’s account of the Mare Tnebrarum. A Panorama more deplorably desolate no human imagination can conceive. To the right and left, as far as the eye could reach, there lay outstretched, like ramparts of the world, lines of horridly black and beetling cliff, whose character of gloom was but the more forcibly illustrated by the surf which reared high up against it, its white and ghastly crest, howling and shrieking for ever.”

-Edgar Allan Poe, “A Descent Into the Maelstrom”

Art: Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog (1818)

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