Jean Genet suggested that the sun resists the moon's efforts to muddle, thwart, and counteract the precise measurement of days.  Genet says that the sun cleanses time while the moon makes it elastic and immeasurable.  Here's another way to cleanse time, from Mocca, 1936.

Many are skeptical of "spirit photography," but here is what we know: (1) I took a photo of something "then," (2) linear time is an illusion, (3) you're seeing me take that photo "now," (4) there is a oneness.  Thank you for smiling.

You've heard that it's possible to toot your own horn without blowing it.  It's true, and even a scarecrow can do it.  From Mocca, 1936. 

Before bad Photoshopping, folks pasted in crying babies whose heads are impossibly smaller than kittens'.  But as a general rule, a basket of kittens does go with just about any photo, in the proper proportion, of course.  From Die Bühne, 1926.

"The imaginary horse isn't real, but your idea of it is real" (Marietta McCarty, Little Big Minds, 2006).  Photo as scanned by the Costică Acsinte Archive.

From 1903.

Here are two ghostly photographs courtesy of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to switch between the photograph and the painting of Dame Louisa Brandreth Aldrich-Blake.

There are few certainties in life, but here's a sure thing, courtesy of the Stanford Historical Archives.

"Ignoring the mustache crack" (Kristan Higgins, The Next Best Thing, 2013).  Our cracked mustache photo is as-scanned by the Costică Acsinte archive.

Current mood.  Courtesy of the Costică Acsinte Archive.

This was entitled "2 Women" by the Boston Public Library, but our analysis finds that it's a single ghost that is bilocating.  Photo by Leslie Jones, date uncertain.

You've heard of seeing life "through the bottom of the glass," but you can also navigate that way.  From 1962, courtesy of the Tyne and Wear Archives.

"I need a soft shoulder to cry on" (Private Dick Hackney McTrite by Walker Jackson).  Photo courtesy of the San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives.

It's been said that "The parent is the background context."  Photo courtesy of the Costică Acsinte Archive.

"Have ball, will orbit": The Vanguard TV-4 Missile, 1958, via the San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives.

"They watch with loving and gracious eyes as you flail about, because they, too, have fallen, flailed, and found new life on the other side" (Jenny Simmons, The Road to Becoming).  Our photo is courtesy of the San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives.