Restoring the Lost Sense

A crack in the sky from a 1906 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.

An illustration from a 1914 issue of McClure's magazine.  The caption reads: "No, he doesn't explain a thing; just says he's coming back to-night. ... Do you think he knows about—them?"

An illustration from an 1878 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "The beginning of trouble."

Dedicated to Teresa Burritt.

An illustration from a 1902 issue of Everybody's magazine.  The caption reads: "She is not there, Danny."

An illustration of a profile cliff from an 1899 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.

An illustration from a 1916 issue of Collier's magazine.

An illustration from an 1878 issue of Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly magazine.  The caption reads: "In love with an automaton. — Through the stifling cloud of bituminous smoke, he scarcely perceived what manner of being it was.  He caught it up in his arms, and bore it through the passage, and down the stairs."

An illustration from a 1904 issue of Pall Mall magazine.  The caption reads: "Don't spring so—I am not a ghost yet."

An illustration from a 1916 issue of Everybody's magazine.

An illustration from a 1911 issue of Everybody's magazine.  The caption reads: "He was not walking on the wall.  He was walking on air, three or feet above the wall."

An illustration from an 1883 issue of Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly magazine.  The caption reads: "A lovelamp. — She remained motionless as the Sphinx itself, her soul in her eyes, as the little lamp began to throb like a living blossom away from the bane toward the current."

An illustration from a 1901 issue of McClure's magazine.  The caption reads: "Here's this."

Dedicated to Jonathan.

An illustration from an 1883 issue of Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly magazine.  The caption reads: "The Devil's Looking-Glass. — Beelzebub sees himself in a mirror."

An illustration from a 1907 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "The two of them looked at each other with much interest."

An illustration from a 1908 issue of Pall Mall magazine.  The caption reads: "Seizing Kum Sin's ankles, he hauled his legs from the bunk, and held his naked soles over the lamp-flame."

A surrealist illustration from a 1906 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.  The caption reads: "I made a headlong dash down the end of the keyboard."

An illustration from a 1908 issue of McClure's magazine.  The caption reads: "The fat man's eyes ... were fixed upon this thing with a kind of stupid intensity."

An illustration from a 1907 issue of Life magazine.  The caption reads: "And so on, forever."

[For Gordon Meyer.]