Misshapen, rough-hewn and salty.

A heartbreaking and possibly true story.

Sibling of Daedalus writes:

This is ‘The Irish Lady’ so-called because there was a ship from Ireland shipwrecked beside the rock and the only survivor was an Irish lady. She sat on the rock and waited to be rescued but the sea was so stormy (the rock is in midsea) no one could get out to her so she starved to death.
Now they say her ghost sits on the rock with a rose between her teeth. It does look a bit like a woman. The Irish on the ship were Protestants fleeing the 17th century Catholic massacres. if they’d been Catholics the Cornishmen would probably have said good enough for her.
Imagine the poor lady though, sitting on the rock, waiting and waiting and waiting, getting thinner and thinner and eventually just wasting away her skeleton falling down the rocks into the sea to join her former maritime companions

 

Mmmf.

Also: Ah here.

Sibling of Daedalus

The Irish Lady (V&A)

Ronan Costello of the Union of Students in Ireland writes:

Here’s a county-by-county directory of mental health services in Ireland. USI compiled this in 2011, but it’s particularly relevant to young people now as cyber bullying, depression and suicide are being discussed as issues of serious concern for our society.

 

Mental Health Directory (USI)


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Any visual that accompanies this legendary quote from the late Carl Sagan’s book Pale Blue Dot: A Vision Of The Human Future In Space are enhanced by the audio rather than vice versa.

Still.

This animation by London animation studio ORDER is another welcome excuse to hear Sagan’s muse on the appearance of the earth in a photograph taken by the distant Voyager 1 probe.

Previously: Eye Candy: The Pale Blue Dot (Halo visuals)

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