Woolf & Wilde

[ellenkushner]

Wow. Just . . . wow. A beautifully-designed website (& Twitter feed) devoted to "vintage photographs of men together (and sometimes women together) circa 1880 to 1950...paired with text to narrate what... the couples might be saying, doing, feeling. Text is drawn from poetry, fiction, letters, lyrics...."

The choice of the Cavafy poem = Win. Great translation. If you don't know Cavafy, you should.

Plus, much love for the quote on the homepage: "WHEN SOMEONE SHOWS YOU WHO THEY ARE, BELIEVE THEM." -- MAYA ANGELOU

Comments

[apis-mellifera.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is lovely. Thank you for telling us about it!

[summer-queen.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for sharing -- beautiful site!

[darkmachines.livejournal.com]

oh! thanks for this post, randomly, as this twitter acct. requested to read my tweets (oh, how silly does that sound) and i had no idea who they were (and of course, i check lj before checking who wants to check in on me, errr..)

So, so neat tho.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I found them 'cause they popped up as Following me on Twitter, and something about the name intrigued me, so I clicked on through. A nice surprise!

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Curious that it was that way around - I actually found them as a website through an earlier recommendation on a friend's LJ (or possibly a Dreamwidth): I only later discovered that they had a Twitter too, but started following it for the beauty of it. The page on W&W that I was linked to was the one about "buddyhood turned into a love affair" among young soldiers between the two World Wars, which was a) historically fascinating, b) such an adorable pic.

[2muchexposition.livejournal.com]

They found me as well somehow! How did they know we would like them so much?! In case you were also hunting for this: http://woolfandwilde.com/category/lesbian/

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Why, Miz Exposition! How did you know?

[dremiel.livejournal.com]

Thank you for sharing this! It is breathtaking!

[contrarywise]

What an awesome site! Thank you for sharing it.

[slavelabour.livejournal.com]

It's stunning. I plan to spread the word. Thank you! ♥

[liminalia.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the poetry link. I went and hunted down the French version. Honestly though, I love the original and would change some things about the translation.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

French version? I thought Cavafy wrote in Greek.

Well, I'd love to see your translation sometime....

[liminalia.livejournal.com]

Well darn, the first link I found was in French, but upon wiki'ing, you're right.

[kitgordon.livejournal.com]

Wonderful site! I love Cavafy. Congrats on the anthology nomination for a Locus Award; wish you'd gotten an individual nod as well!

Kit, Minneapolis Kushner enthusiast

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Kit!