Prince Charming, 1948 by René Magritte (1898-1967)
![Canto XX: [no title] 1982 by Tom Phillips born 1937](https://biblioklept.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/p07704_10.jpg?w=739)
Canto XX, 1982 by Tom Phillips (b. 1937). From the Dante’s Inferno series.
The Generosity, 2010 by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (b. 1977)
“The Peasant and the Cucumbers”
by Leo Tolstoy
(trans. by Leo Wiener)
A peasant once went to the gardener’s, to steal cucumbers. He crept up to the cucumbers, and thought:
“I will carry off a bag of cucumbers, which I will sell; with the money I will buy a hen. The hen will lay eggs, hatch them, and raise a lot of chicks. I will feed the chicks and sell them; then I will buy me a young sow, and she will bear a lot of pigs. I will sell the pigs, and buy me a mare; the mare will foal me some colts. I will raise the colts, and sell them. I will buy me a house, and start a garden. In the garden I will sow cucumbers, and will not let them be stolen, but will keep a sharp watch on them. I will hire watchmen, and put them in the cucumber patch, while I myself will come on them, unawares, and shout: ‘Oh, there, keep a sharp lookout!'”
And this he shouted as loud as he could. The watchmen heard it, and they rushed out and beat the peasant.
Pieta by Peter Ferguson (b. 1968)
The Sea, 1949 by Henry Koerner (1915-1991)
Theme Park Patron, 2014 by Paul Fenniak (b. 1965)
Christian Retreat, 1980 by Eric Fischl (b. 1948)
Bamboo Blind, Biting, 2015 by Ikenaga Yasunari (b. 1965)
Frankenstein, 2018 by Santiago Caruso (b. 1982)
(English translation by Paul Blackburn.)
Girl with Hands 9, 2013 by Michaël Borremans (b. 1963)
Reading Girl, 1834 by Friedrich von Amerling (1803-1887)
Bats and Cats, 2020 by Samplerman (Yvan Guillo)
King of the Green-winged Bat, 2020 by Mu Pan (b. 1976)
Lösung (Solution), 2005 by Neo Rauch (b. 1960)
“Short Talk on Vicuñas”
by
Anne Carson
A mythical animal, the vicuña fares well
in the volcanic regions of northern Peru.
Light thunders down on it, like Milton
at his daughters. Hear that?—they
are counting under their breath.
Think about style of life for a
moment. When you take up your
axe, listen. Hoofbeats. Wind.
It is they who make us at home
here, not the other way around.
