28 Feb 2008, 11:09 am
That object suspended by the sleeper's head is a tassel from the the parapet of the four-poster bed. I can get a visceral understanding of what that rather upsetting creature perched on top of the sleeper ... incubus ... alien visitor ... demon rapist.
But what about that spooky grinning horse? He had just his head poking through the curtain. 
And indeed did the Godfather screenwriters know of this painting when they wrote that infamous scene? You gotta wonder.
28 Feb 2008, 12:01 pm
God, after looking at that painting last night, I dreamed about the horse.
I have curtains behind my bed and I have often imagined creatures peering out from behind them as I lie awake; long arms groping for me in the dark...
29 Feb 2008, 8:13 pm
For some reason, this Rousseau image has always freaked me out. Now I have a poster of it to scare myself on a regular basis:
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04 Mar 2008, 11:57 pm
oh...my...shivers are now literally going down my spine.
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05 Mar 2008, 12:03 am
Well, that or she was just that drunk and he was keeping her in check
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05 Mar 2008, 3:24 pm
I found another freakish painting.
though it's obviously a bit commercial.
hope this isn't too awful for the mods...
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