Of Bats and Wax: The Uncanny Profession of Clovis Trouille, Master of Bizarre Erotica

Clovis Trouille, Dialogue in the Carmel, 1944

Félix Labisse, The Council of Blood, 1973

Jan Brueghel the Elder , Hell, 1601

"You met me at a very strange time in my life"

Ravi Varma, Kali trampling Shiva, 1910

Victor Prouvé, The Night, 1894

Giovanni Duprè, Death of Abel, 1842

Watanabe Shōtei, Moon, 1896

El Greco, Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata, 1590–​​​​​​​1595

Julio Romero de Torres , Oranges and Lemons , 1927

Stanisław Szukalski, The Snake, 1960

Georges Antoine Rochegrosse , War and Peace , 1886

Félix Labisse, Hunger, 1943

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Norman Lindsay, The Peacock Robe, 1929

The pulsar CP 1919 was discovered in November 1967 by student Jocelyn Bell Burnell and her supervisor Antony Hewish at Cambridge University. As the star turns, it emits electromagnetic radiation in a beam like a lighthouse, which can be picked up by radio telescopes.

The image was originally created by radio astronomer Harold Craft at the Arecibo Observatory for his 1970 doctoral dissertation as a way to visualize smaller pulses within larger ones.

“Successive pulses from the first pulsar discovered, CP 1919, are here superimposed vertically. The pulses occur every 1.337 seconds. They are caused by a rapidly spinning neutron star." - The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Astronomy

"Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

"Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

"In the absence of huge suffering, the smallest inconveniences torture us." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

"I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

"The horror of existence stares us blank in the face and we sense, in one devastating blow, that all souls are hanging by their own web and that a hellish abyss lurks beneath." ~ Peter Wessel Zapffe