That Quiet Earth
  • I wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth. //
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Dieric Bouts, The Fall of the Damned (detail), 1450
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Master L. Cz., The Temptation of Christ (detail of the Devil), 1500
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The Dream of Eleanor, c. 1795, by G. Kininger
(Scanned from a Fuseli art-book)
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Illustration by Delacroix of Mephistopheles flying over Wittenberg, 1828
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Fuseli, The Nightmare (detail)
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Glory and praise to Satan, where you reigned
In Heaven, and in depths of Hell the same,
Where now you dream in silent reverie!
And may my soul take rest beneath the Tree
Of Knowledge with you, when above your head
Like a new Temple, those great branches spread!

— Litanies of Satan, by Charles Baudelaire
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After Fuseli’s The Nightmare, late nineteenth-century
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I’m writing a poem about an incubus attacking a sleeping man, and it’s strangely enjoyable. 

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Not sure which Bosch painting this is, if anyone wants to do a little investigative work?
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