The Source

i have received a couple of questions about source/author of the latest picture on the blog. It has been used by (and created for) Belmont's edition of Bed of an Empress story by Sacher-Masoch. First edition has been published in 1964 and identical reprint was made by the same publisher in 1968. Author of the cover art is most probably Victor Kalin (1919-1991), a very successful, skilled and flexible illustrator. He created a lot of brilliant paper book covers, but unfortunately this one is his only pure 'femdom' work. The book has been also reprinted in UK by Richmond Hill Printing in 1965 with different, and much less attractive, cover. For the blog i just cleaned up the cover to make it text and wear marking free and tweeted the colors and sharpness a little bit... so bad the original Kalin's picture is not available...

Richmond, 1965

Belmont, 1964

In Earth As It Is In Heaven...

Thy Will Be Done...

Thy Queendom Come...

Art by Edwin Blashfield

Strength

My feelings woke me up in the middle of the night. There is always something to do, something new, something that goes wrong, something to handle, something to look over, but waking up alone sucks. Sucks big time! To love someone deeply gives you strength, to be loved by someone gives you courage - it is probably true... but what if the love is only in your mind?

Reader's Diary (Week 2)

I am nothing.

I'll never be anything.

I couldn't want to be something.

Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.
(Pessoa, 1928)

L'Amour fou

This photo of a mandrake root, taken by Man Ray, is coming from André Breton's Mad Love. Breton saw Aeneas carrying his father from burning Troy in the character and found it a little disturbing, but for me it represents the love itself... helping and caring Love. And there is nothing greater in this world.