Awful and beautiful stories of a dead man. Classicism, myths, science, books, girls and landscapes. (and girls)
oolasha:

Kalapana, Hawaii.
books0977:

Reading (1890). Ilya Galkin (Russian, 1860-1915).
“To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.” -- A C Grayling, Financial Times (in a review of A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel)