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Three In The Morning Wake-Up Call

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The Protecting Veil As Battle Standard

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An illustration I made from ‘Andrei Rublev’

I woke up suddenly at three a.m., after a restless sleep, and suddenly, I knew what I was supposed to do. About my life, I mean. What was on my mind when my eyes opened was first, that I needed to pray, right then, and then my favorite scene from Tarkovsky’s great film Andrei Rublev. It’s the scene after the Ta…

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