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"You must have plenty of ghosts in Greek and Latin, doctor." From Gryll Grange by Thomas Love Peacock and illustrated by Frederick Henry Townsend, 1896.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Captain Marryat's Novels by Frederick Marryat, 1896.
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 "A rose may be a rose, but children are not children." — Mary Jane Drummond, Assessing Children's Learning
How so?
Answer: Children are a heterogeneous crowd of unique individuals, onto whom we project our understanding of what it is to be four – or seven – or 11 years old. (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.)
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To date we've never been menaced by books. The artist could at least have magnified bookworms to dragon-like proportions.
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flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
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Imagination and Freewill, from Cassell's Library of English Literature, edited by Henry Morley, 1875.
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Someone Should Write a Book on ... |
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Dan suggests a book someone should write: I wonder if anyone has taken the trouble to catalogue English verbs that are used both transitively and intransitively and which exhibit a substantial difference in meaning between the two. "He drinks tea." "He drinks." That sort of thing. For all I know, that's the case with most of them, and the catalogue would be a weighty volume. Transitive verbs are apparently an irresistible source for neologisms. You just check to see whether an intransitive form exists and is doing anything in particular. No? Dude, that's low-hanging fruit. "He walked"; i.e., "He was acquitted." I'm not sure when that one first appeared, but I suspect it's modern. If I were going to waste my time on such a book, I'd print the intransitive expression on the right page, with a transitive continuation on the next page (following an ellipsis, perhaps). It would be an entertaining read, as you could almost physically feel the shift in meaning as you turned the page, and besides, some of them are quite whimsical. "They parked." A young lady's virtue hangs in the balance. Turn the page. "...the car." She remains intacto. Even more fun would be a collection of transitive verbs currently lacking an intransitive use but listed as if they did, and letting the imagination land where it may. Practically poetry. "He brings." Roll it around on the tongue. Suggests to me a generous and helpful type of person. "I like Fred. He brings, you know?" "Yeah, I know what you mean. The world needs more bringers."
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From The Ingoldsby Legends by Thomas Ingoldsby, 1866.
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Asclepius [Aesculapius] originated as a sideshow attraction. This we find documented in The Comic History of Rome by Gilbert Abbott A'Beckett, 1897.
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"The ship that sailed into the sun," from Lilliput Lyrics by William Brighty Rands, 1899.
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"Ill-fame and innocence" from The New Hyperion by Edward Strahan, 1875.
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"His eyes rested on a form that made his blood run cold." From The Works of Charles Dickens, Household Edition.
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"A poetical ruin," from Love Lyrics and Valentine Verses by Charles Maurice Davies, 1875.
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An illustration from an 1855 issue of Punch magazine.
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If you have a strange dream to share, send it along! |
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In the game Grand Theft Auto V, members of a Scientology-like cult called Epsilon pray to the god Kifflom. We can offer an internet exclusive in answering "What does Kifflom mean?" The sounds of Kifflom, spoken backwards, intone the word malefic (from the Latin meaning ill-doing). Note that the "kiff" at the beginning of Kifflom is the "fic" of malefic, backwards. The "lom" at the end of the Kifflom is the the "mal" at the beginning of malefic.
There is actually a long history of such word reversals. Consider, for example, the reversals of: Tien (heaven in Chinese) into Neit (Egyptian goddess) Mitra (Persian Venus) into Artim (the Greek Artimis) Rama (love in Sanscrit) into Amor (love in Latin) Dipuc (love in Sanscrit) into Cupid (Latin) Chlom (crown in Coptic) into Moloch (king in Hebrew) Sar (chief in Persian) into Ras (chief in Arabic and Hebrew)
Additionally, Melos refers to "the fearful sword of fire" that descends from "the gate of light," a coded reference to Christ in Abyssinian liturgical texts. King Solomon, who figured highly in Ethiopian mythology, is said to have considered Melos to be a magic word.[1] Note that Melos is a form of the name Solomon. Solomon spelled backwards is Nomolos, which shortens to Molos and hence Melos. (Another common variation is Nemlos.[2])
[1] Phillip Tovey, Inculturation of Christian Worship (2004)
[2] Alois Grillmeier, Christ in Christian Tradition (1975)
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"A snow-wave in Cheshire. Sketched from nature, January 28, 1865, after a strong breeze of wind." From Frost and Fire by John Francis Campbell, 1867.
Jonathan Caws-Elwitt observes, "I like the way the village depicted under the tidal wave of snow sort of looks like it's preserved in an anti-snowglobe."
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"The crystal ball turned inky black." From Strange Stories, April 1939.
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From The Baby's Museum by Uncle Charlie, 1882.
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"They danced in the moonlight on the sward," from Bladys of the Stewponey by Sabine Baring-Gould and illustrated by Frederick Henry Townsend, 1897.
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Yes, you may . . . on one condition:
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"I was touched," from Roughing It by Mark Twain.
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The first illustration below is from Poets' Wit and Humour by William Henry Wills, 1882. The second is from Departmental Ditties by Rudyard Kipling, 1898, and its caption reads, "Pagett was dear to mosquitos, sandflies found him a treat."
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"I tell him to raise the music, and it's 'Hang on Sloopy,' my favorite song of all time, and I remember thinking, Oh my God, it's really happening." —Urban Meyer, qtd. in Buckeye Rebirth by Bill Rabinowitz
The foreground of this collage is from the extraordinarily brilliant comedy series Arrested Development.
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"Cross, cadaverous, odd, and ill-natured," from The Works of Charles Dickens, Household Edition.
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From The Man in the Moon, Volume V.
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"He melts, I think. He goes like a drop of froth. You look at him, and there he is. You look at him again, and—there he isn't." From The Works of Charles Dickens, Household Edition.
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You've heard of sticking inhuman pins into a voodoo doll, but the old-school sticks human pins into a pseudo doll. From The Baby's Museum by Uncle Charlie, 1882.
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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
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Here's a precursor to Arrested Development's Tobias wondering what his daughter is thinking. The subtitle reads, "She lives her life, and I get the pleasure of guessing what that might entail." The precursor appears in The Lady's Manor by Emma Marshall, 1896. Its caption reads, "What is my little girl thinking about?"
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"Looking under sofas and easy-chairs in the company of a popular actress and a French maid," from Bushigrams by Guy Newell Boothby, 1897.
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From The New Hyperion by Edward Strahan, 1875.
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Who is your favorite imaginary saint? Do share! |
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An illustration from Daylight Land by William Henry Harrison Murray (1888). The caption reads: "We were too astonished at what we saw to say a word. We stood an gazed in silent amazement."
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought |
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The Paper St. Journal reviews our imaginary Kafka parables, Franzlations. "Sometimes maudlin, but always wise, Conley, Barwin, and Thomas induce you into a willing hypnosis as you ponder over the pithy blocked letters, scattered scraps of sentences, and gothic illustrations." The reviewer, James Puntillo, credits us with constructing within the book "a firewall to protect against readers who won't delight so easily" in aphorisms*, and if it's indeed true that we did that then we'll figure out how to reverse-engineer our previous works, too. Whew—it'll be a relief!
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Marja writes: "Love the idea that you think you didn't hypnotize yourself."
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*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out. |
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"The child of the symbol," from Sebastiani's Secret by S. E. Waller, 1897.
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 "Be especially wary when working or recreating around water, which seems obvious but bears repeating."
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"Dans un pas-seul il exprime son extréme desespoir," from The Oxford Thackeray.
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Here's some Droste effect from Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Robert Smith Surtees, 1892. We're reminded of a scene with Matt Berry in The IT Crowd (below).
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Sappho from Comic History of Greece by Charles M. Snyder, 1898.
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"Discussing turnips," from Roughing It by Mark Twain.
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"A witch taking Scotchmen to London," from Our Country by Benson John Lossing, 1875.
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An illustration from When Life is Young by Mary Elizabeth Dodge (1894).
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Puzzles and Games :: Letter Grids |
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This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 14
• 8-letter words: 1
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
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• beached • benched • cadenza • chaetal • chanted • cheated • decanes |
• flatbed • headset • munched • peached • pentads • punched • unteach |
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• flatbeds |
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"I seed a passing of a many shadders," from Tales from the Veld by Ernest Glanville and illustrated by M. Nisbet, 1897.
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"You eat like a Saint of Good Nourishment and they think you're responding to the medication."
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From Poets' Wit and Humour by William Henry Wills, 1882.
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Comedian Stewart Lee would have us believe that Scotland hasn't changed much from this depiction in A Book of Scotish Pasquils, edited by James Maidment, 1868.
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Call it a hunch, an intuition, a sneaky suspicion, or just plain being nosy.
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"Sarah Terwilligar's attempt to fly to heaven [as] the world [is] to come to an end," from Upper Canada Sketches by Thomas Conant, 1898.
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"Gradually, however, they assumed a darker and more mysterious character." From The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott and illustrated by Fred Pegram, 1898.
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"The voices in the waves are always whispering to Florence," from the Works of Charles Dickens, Household Edition.
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* The most profound secrets lie not wholly in knowledge, said the poet. They lurk invisible in that vitalizing spark, intangible, yet as evident as the lightning—the seeker's soul. Solitary digging for facts can reward one with great discoveries, but true secrets are not discovered—they are shared, passed on in confidence from one to another. The genuine seeker listens attentively. No secret can be transcribed, save in code, lest it—by definition—cease to be. This Book of Whispers collects and encodes more than one hundred of humankind's most cherished secrets. To be privy to the topics alone is a supreme achievement, as each contains and nurtures the seed of its hidden truth. As possessor and thereby guardian of this knowledge, may you summon the courage to honor its secrets and to bequeath it to one worthy. |
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"The chair was an ugly old gentleman; and what was more, he was winking at Tom Smart." From The Works of Charles Dickens, Household Edition.
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"Don't take this the wrong way, but some people do it for attention."
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Here's more proof that everyone's an art critic: "This is a terrible piece of work," from The Lost Gold of the Montezumas by William Osborne Stoddard, 1897.
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"Arise! Arise!" From The Decameron of a Hypnotist by Ernest Richard Suffling, 1898.
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"But in the night he ran away," from Red Apple and Silver Bells by Hamish Hendry and illustrated by Alice B. Woodward, 1899.
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"I will bury myself in my books, and the devil may pipe to his own." From Maud by Alfred Tennyson, 1878.
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"I dreamed a night or two ago." (The awkward cropping at the top of the image is courtesy of the British Library.) From Vagrant Verses by George Staunton Brodie and illustrated by Wallis Mackay, 1876.
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Here's a precursor to Mount Rushmore, from Walt Mason: His Book, 1916. The caption reads, "Like some lone mountain in the starry night."
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From Life in Brazil by Thomas Ewbank, 1856.
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If this is a depiction of the Mississippi River, then our best guess is Memphis. From How the World Was Peopled by Edward Fontaine, 1872.
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Once a proofreader, always a proofreader (apparently). From Mark Twain's Roughing It. The caption reads, "Needed marking."
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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
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"The phantom fight," from France by Leitch Ritchie, 1872.
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From Les Merveilles du Mont. St. Michel by Paul Henri Coretin Féval, 1880.
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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
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"He stood quite still and looked at me," from Ghostly Tales by Wilhelmina Fitzclarence, Countess of Munster, 1896.
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"It's really happening, just as the cards predicted."
The foreground of this collage is from the extraordinarily brilliant comedy series Arrested Development.
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From The Hepsworth Millions by Christian Lys, 1898.
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"To his extreme horror finds every watch, every clock, and every chronometer pointing out a different hour; so that all the information he can get is, that the time is something between 12 o'clock to-day and 12 o-clock to-morrow." From The Man in the Moon, Volume V.
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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Here's a precursor to Escheresque architecture, from Geschichte Oesterreichs by Alexander Patuzzi, 1862 (thirty-six years before Escher was born).
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Here's a precursor to Chloe Meakin's poem "How I Came to Hate Bungalows," from Other Countries by William Morrison Bell, 1872.
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"Vision" (1879) by Odilon Redon.
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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"Jest like as the dewdrops sparkle / In the sun of the mornin' skies." From Grandma's Attic Treasures by Mary Dow Brine, 1882.
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*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out. |
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From The Story of Prince Hildebrand and the Princess Ida by Thomas Strong Seccombe, 1880.
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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Puzzles and Games :: Letter Grids |
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This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them? One of the 7-letter words sounds like the C-word.
• 7-letter words: 13
• 8-letter words: 3
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
Click to display solutions
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• auklets • beleaps • beltway • castles • coteaus • dartles • hayward |
• seaward • seaware • teacups • teaware • warsles • warstle |
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• beltways • eastward |
• warstles |
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"I ran on and on, calling and screaming until I burst a blood-vessel," from Paving the Way: A Romance of the Bush by Simpson Newland, 1898.
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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From The Man in the Moon, Volume IV.
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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Sham devils from Across Africa by Verney Lovett Cameron, 1877.
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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson, 1898. A larger version of the image is here or here.
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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Ginx's Baby by Edward Jenkins, 1871.
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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"For when it said 'Keep still!' I kept still." From The Beetle: A Mystery by Richard Marsh, 1897.
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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"I am so happy, I can't believe it's really happening!" "I can't believe it either honey! I feel like I am dreaming."
The foreground of this collage is from the extraordinarily brilliant comedy series Arrested Development.
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"Here Mr. Lorry became aware, from where he sat, of a most remarkable goblin shadow on the wall." From The Works of Charles Dickens, Household Edition.
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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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A thicket is a definite article. From Fair Diana by Wanderer, 1884.
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Here's a precursor to TED Talks. The caption reads, "The living hand on the screen, shown during the course of a lecture delivered by Henry Morton at the Academy of Music, New York, February 3, 1871." From Morton Memorial by Franklin De Ronde Furman, 1905.
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"And make the puppy dance a jig, / When he began to quote Augustine." From Every-day Characters by Winthrop Mackworth Praed and illustrated by Cecil Charles Windsor, 1896.
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Who is your favorite imaginary saint? Do share! |
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From Shadows and Other Poems by E. Samuels and illustrated by W. Fitzgerald, 1898.
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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"In the cabaret of death," from Bohemian Paris of To-day by W. C. Morrow, 1899.
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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"Not calculated to tranquilize," from Dicks' English Library of Standard Works, 1884.
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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Brazil and the Brazilians by Daniel Parish Kidder, 1879.
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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Here's a precursor to the "great dorg" of a film Mannequin (1987), from The Tinted Venus by J. Bernard Partridge, 1898. The caption reads, "'It is a miserable thing,' he was thinking, 'for a man to have a female statue trotting after him like a great dorg.'"
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"Where go the good Days when they end? Why do they never stay? I often wish that God would send a nice bright Yesterday!" From Red Apple and Silver Bells by Hamish Hendry and illustrated by Alice B. Woodward, 1899.
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*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out. |
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Fifty years before Phil Spector invented the " Wall of Sound," there was the sphere of sound, as we see in this illustration from the magazine Crisis, 1910.
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea |
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"Things were gettin' awfuller and awfuller every instant," from A Story-Teller's Pack by Frank Richard Stockton, 1897.
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,( ,( ,( ,( ,( ,( ,( ,( `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' ` "The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News |
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"The dream-girl," from France by Leitch Ritchie, 1872.
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If you have a strange dream to share, send it along! |
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Gower shooting at the world, from Cassell's Library of English Literature, 1875.
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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"Colon and Semi-colon," from Buffalo Land by W. E. Webb, 1873.
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea |
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"But through Duntullum's pile like witch's tooth / The ceaseless seawinds whistle without ruth." From Dunvegan Castle by Harold Steward Rathbone, 1900.
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,( ,( ,( ,( ,( ,( ,( ,( `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' ` "The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News |
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"Nothing unusual," from Across Country by Wanderer and illustrated by Georgina Bowers, 1882.
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From Poets' Wit and Humour by William Henry Wills, 1882.
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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Here's a precursor to David Copperfield's illusion of walking through the Great Wall of China, from Shrewsbury by Stanley John Weyman, 1898. The caption reads, "In an instant I was on the other side of the fence."
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Dreaming in (Venn) circles, from My Little Girl by Walter Besant, 1873.
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If you have a strange dream to share, send it along! |
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The caption reads, "I suddenly arose in my ghostly attire and in a moment was upon him." From "The Ghost in the Cemetery" in Allan Pinkerton's Criminal Reminiscences and Detective Sketches, 1878.
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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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An illustration from The Haunted Major by Robert Marshall (1902). The caption reads: "Hopped about in a grotesque and undignified ecstasy."
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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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♪ ♫ Tale as old as time True as it can be Barely even friends Then somebody bends Unexpectedly ♪ ♫
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Thanks to Mike Kloran (author of Zombies: The Stinking Dead) for his review of our dictionary of One-Letter Words: "It’s a fun little piece that looks at all the many ways a single letter may be used as a unit of thought, or as we usually call them, words. And we’re not just talking about the article 'a' or the pronoun 'I.' No no. We’re talking about how all the letters of the alphabet have been used as words throughout literature. ... A really fun way to look at the language in a fresh light, even for tired teachers like you and me."
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"The mist has gone by, dear love! The mist has quite gone by!" From The Grey Man by Samuel Rutherford Crockett and illustrated by John Seymour Lucas, 1896.
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*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out. |
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From The Calton Ballads by Catter Thun, 1898.
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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"There can be a fine line between creative and nonsensical language."
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A printed collection of A Fine Line Between... is now available from Amazon.com. |
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Did You Hear the One I Just Made Up? |
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What if Bewitched's Endora had turned Darrin into a religious mendicant? See caption (from Tent Work in Palestine by Claude Reignier Conder and illustrated by Josiah Wood Whymper, 1878).
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A detail from a window display photograhed by Hartwell.
The Guardian dubbed Dean Martin "St. Dean of the Whatever."
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Who is your favorite imaginary saint? Do share! |
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*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out. |
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"Adela is fast asleep, her mouth half open, her face relaxed and absent; but her closed lids are transparent, and on their thin parchment the night is writing its pact with the devil, half text, half picture, full of erasures, corrections, and scribbles." —Bruno Schulz, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
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If you have a strange dream to share, send it along! |
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"When Molly had let in a ray of light," from A Smile within a Tear by Helen Guendolen Ramsden, 1897.
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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"It's happening. Yes. It absolutely is."
The foreground of this collage is from the extraordinarily brilliant comedy series Arrested Development.
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"When taken to be shaken," from Poets' Wit and Humour by William Henry Wills, 1882.
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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"Don't take this the wrong way, but I can tell you're not done with this. You still have things to discover, even though you don't know it yet."
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"Into the mouthpiece of the machine I spoke, asking, 'Do you hear me?'" From The Story Hunter or Tales of the Weird and Wild by Ernest Richard Suffling, 1896. [For Gordon Meyer.]
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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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 A rose may be a rose may be a rose; but not this one.
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"Some of the marvels which Sir John Mandeville saw," from Half-Hours with the Early Explorers by Thomas Frost, 1873.
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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Satan dressed as a lady of the eleventh century, from The National and Domestic History of England by William Hickman Smith Aubrey, 1878.
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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out. |
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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From The Devil's Case by Robert Williams Buchanan, 1896.
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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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A flourish of trumpets from The Man in the Moon, Volume V.
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 "Old comics would be even more cluttered with tin cans if comic-strip goats didn’t keep their numbers down." —Christoher Miller, American Cornball
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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"I say, Rawhead," quoth one of the Ghosts, in a hollow, sepulchral tone, "you're cheating!" "I say, Bloodybones," quoth the other, "you're drunk!" —The Man in the Moon, Volume IV
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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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An illustration from The Sociable Ghost by Olive Harper (1903). The caption reads: "I won't play if such favoritism is shown."
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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"The cow went on before them," from The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe and illustrated by Walter Paget, 1896.
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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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The caption might be the opposite of, "Is it hot in here, or is it just me?" It reads, "Would you like your overcoat, Colin?" From A Double Mistake by Edith E. Smyth, 1898.
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*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out. |
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From Prickly Pear Blossoms by William Hamilton Nation, 1900.
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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"The egg dance," from Round the World with General Grant by John Russell Young, 1879.
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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Two shadows in conversation, from Cassell's Old and New Edinburgh by James Grant, 1880.
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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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