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desperanceHalf my internets today are pointing at this extraordinary photo of the Milky Way as seen from the Himalaya.
Which is kind of ambushing me, because I can't look at it without thinking of John Martin. Which would be all very well, except that I don't actually like John Martin's work very much. Which is kind of heretical, as he is the Great Local Victorian Painter. (And his even madder brother set fire to York Minster, which is my favourite fact about the whole damn family.)
Which is kind of ambushing me, because I can't look at it without thinking of John Martin. Which would be all very well, except that I don't actually like John Martin's work very much. Which is kind of heretical, as he is the Great Local Victorian Painter. (And his even madder brother set fire to York Minster, which is my favourite fact about the whole damn family.)