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"Play away my dears; silence the enemy's piano if possible." From Drawings by John Leech, 1909.
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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 Purple Parrot, 1941.
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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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| [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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From Grimm's Fairy Stories, Supplementary to First Reader by M. Winifred Haliburton, 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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If you've ever read an especially helpful foreword, you can thank (at least in part) the Foreword Fairy. From Montreat's 1947 yearbook.
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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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| If you have a strange dream to share, send it along! |
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From Park College's 1932 yearbook.
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If you're worried that you've lost the plot, here it is again. (You're very welcome!) From Vassar's 1945 yearbook.
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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 James Millikin University's 1912 yearbook.
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"What you can't see matters most." From Michigan State College's 1950 yearbook.
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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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We checked, and it's still true that if [for ten thousand ages] day and night, the human race should write, and write, and write, till all pens and paper were used up, and the huge inkstand was an empty cup, still would the scribblers clustered round its brink call for more pens, more paper, and more ink [Oliver Wendell Holmes]. From Oberlin College's 1903 yearbook.
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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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Hawk versus swan: which would you wager to win? From Chatterbox, 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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| [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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All in a day's work. From the Xanadu: Dragon Slayer II strategy handbook.
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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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"When Old Man Winter arrives." From The Fairy Housekeepers by Norma Bright Carson and illustrated by Hazeltine Fewsmith, 1917.
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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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Wesleyan College's 1902 yearbook.
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May no demons bark at you, in dog form or otherwise. From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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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 no use ... I've been wrong too long." From Together, 1956.
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From Colorado College's 1928 yearbook.
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From Lighted Pathway, 1977.
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From Salem College's 1911 yearbook.
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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 "remarkable photograph of the wind." From Purple Parrot, 1922.
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From Joplin Junior College's 1942 yearbook.
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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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unearths some literary gems.
From "Addenda to the Revised Edition [of Crime Fiction IV]: Introduction," by Allen J. Hubin:
***I went into a huddle with myself.***Ever a glutton for publishment, I proposed another edition.***I leave coverage of books first appearing after year 2000 to someone – anyone – else.***
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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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From Saint Mary's Junior College's 1961 yearbook.
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Even in fantasy fiction, folks are talking about how hot it is. From Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1907.
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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 Purple Parrot, 1941.
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"It would be awkward." From Harper's, 1894.
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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 only is this place shaped like a dragon, but note that the river and lake form the beast's digestive system. From Weird Tales, 1932.
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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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If you've wondered about quartz prices, this may explain everything. From the Wizardry: Bane Of The Cosmic Forge Clue Book.
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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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"'Will you not run with me?' asked the man." From Around an Iroquois Story Fire by Mabel Powers (Yehsennohwehs) and illustrated by R. Emmett Owen, 1923.
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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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From Indiana University's 1925 yearbook.
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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 Wake Forest's 1966 yearbook.
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From Lighted Pathway, 1960.
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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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Our custom Uncanny Detector App determined that this is the real deal. From Westminster Choir College's 1966 yearbook.
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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 Vassar's 1945 yearbook.
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Separating from the light body and shadow self. From Purdue's 1935 yearbook.
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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 Medical College of Virginia's 1945 yearbook.
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"Haircuts for sparrows." From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals's Our Dumb Animals, 1953.
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From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 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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| [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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"Be grateful ... it could be worse!" From Current Sauce, 1987.
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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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At first you're like, "Oh, cool -- everything's okay!" but then realize that's not an "okay" gesture and wonder whether the high collar is bat wings. From the Wizardry: Bane Of The Cosmic Forge Handbook.
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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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| [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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By Charles F. Lester. From St. Nicholas, 1913.
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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 State Female Normal School, Farmville, Va.'s 1902 yearbook.
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"Our forefathers asked the gods where they came from and they replied: 'From the star.'" —Erich von Däniken, via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2003.
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From Georgia Southwestern's 1973 yearbook.
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From Arkansas Polytechnic College's 1925 yearbook.
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We tracked down a temporal anomaly in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, "where time and space are in extreme disjunction and are never reconciled" (Jocelyn Martha Coates).
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From Oberlin College's 1927 yearbook.
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"There is no right way to do a wrong thing." From Improvement Era, 1956.
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Here's a precursor to the famous hall of mirrors scene in The Lady From Shanghai (1947). From Nick Carter Weekly, 1914.
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From Purple Parrot, 1927.
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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 Poets' Wit and Humor by W. H. Wills and illustrated by Charles Bennett and George H. Thomas, 1860.
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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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From Le Chariviari, 1884.
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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 University of Chicago's 1908 yearbook.
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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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Memories of college. From Westminster Choir College's 1966 yearbook.
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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 Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought |
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From Salem College's 1911 yearbook.
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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 Wittenberg's 1935 yearbook.
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"This guy is sick and tired of many, many, many things." From The Gateway, 1969.
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From Eastern Nazarene College's 1930 yearbook.
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"'Had talked long enough' so officer arrested the socialist candidate for governor." From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1914.
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Boxing the world for his daily bread. From James Millikin University's 1912 yearbook.
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From Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1914.
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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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"'So this is the last of Bad Bill, desperado, gun-man, renegade, of Hangman's Gulch,' said the shrieking voice of the ghost of Horn Mountain." From American Indian Weekly, 1911.
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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 worry; the pictures won't look like you. That'll be their chief attraction." From Two Negatives Make an Affirmative by Forbes Heermans, 1889.
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From Purple Parrot, 1927.
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| Who is your favorite imaginary saint? Do share! |
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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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He says he has come back but doesn't know where she is. She's right in front of you, mate! From The Crystal Heart by Phyllis Bottome and illustrated by Norman Price, 1921.
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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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"So from now on I'm not going to show my face to any of your friends." From Current Sauce, 1987.
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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 better scan of this one. From Poets' Wit and Humor by W. H. Wills and illustrated by Charles Bennett and George H. Thomas, 1860.
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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 turkeys are ready to turn the tables. From Christmas Every Day by William Dean Howells, 1892.
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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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Today's fiddling turkey is from Winthrop's 1909 yearbook.
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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 Salem's 1907 yearbook.
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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 Tri-State College's 1961 yearbook.
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From Lighted Pathway, 1971.
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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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unearths some literary gems.
From The Wedding, by Denis Mackail:
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"Mittens? Oh yes; rather. Of course."
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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 Washington State University's 1907 yearbook.
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| I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought |
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As we sneak-peeked a few months ago, here's our haunted clockwork cover of Pain in the Yeahs' "Disappear Easy," rapped by the aetheric voices coming through our Tesla spirit radio.
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"Resentment grew in Roberta's heart. 'No one has any right to be that beautiful. And she's too good to be earthly. All that money is disgusting.'" From Lighted Pathway, 1960.
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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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"An immense white castle enclosed by a great white wall." From The House of the Red Fox by Miriam Byrne and illustrated by Anna Milo Upjohn, 1907.
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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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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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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's nothing like elfin lemonade. From The Brownie Handbook (Canada).
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This 3-D effect photo may be used to facilitate astral or time travel. From Eastern Kentucky's 1927 yearbook.
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"Not only at Thansgiving should we ask ourselves ... Must you keep your heart in cold storage?" From Together, 1962.
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It's not so easy to make out, but each musical note has one of the states of the United States in it. From Salem College's 1911 yearbook.
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Q: Was it something I said?
A: No doubt.
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The same thing to say to two different people. From Fort Wayne Bible College's 1986 yearbook.
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From Purple Parrot, 1929.
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From Ohio University's 1924 yearbook.
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"I wonder why there isn't more jokes in this book."
"Is it a joke book?"
From Medical College of Virginia's 1931 yearbook.
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His widow said that if her husband insists he's not dead, let him read his tombstone. From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1903.
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For all its horror, Dark Shadows yet offers moments of laughter. From Dark Shadows episodes 22, 1049, 708, 417, 484, 262, 395. 760, 517, 759, 440, 691, 1025, 653, and 962.
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From Nebraska Wesleyan's 1924 yearbook.
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Private planet. From Barnard's 1908 yearbook.
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Memories of college. From Grace College's 1977 yearbook.
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Alliens [sic]? Unless that's a contraction of "all aliens," we don't believe it. Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2001.
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From the University of Maryland's School of Medicine yearbook of 1901.
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From Purple Parrot, 1922.
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From Ohio Wesleyan's 1929 yearbook.
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From our review of Strange Maine, illustrated by Peter Farrow. We love this sort of anthology that seems hell-bent to convince readers that the locality in question is plagued by vampires, werewolves, ghost ships, sea serpents, aliens, flying carpets, and other haunting anomalies. Every region should have one!
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"They either danced ballet or went the scientific way." From Tri-State College's 1961 yearbook.
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Today's sea wolves feasting on ambergris is from Harper's, 1879.
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From Purdue's 1935 yearbook.
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Cloudy ink. From Mars Hill's 1955 yearbook.
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"There's a whole shooting gallery of impish little dolls to throw rocks at." From Lighted Pathway, 1979.
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From Swarthmore College's 1888 yearbook.
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Cockatoo versus snake: which would you wager for the win? From Chatterbox, 1879.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
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Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
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From Indiana University's 1931 yearbook.
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"Ancient imperial Japanese bed. A rare example of teak carving. Belonging to the royal family." From The Witchery of Sleep by Willard Moyer, 1903.
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Was it a marvelous secret one has suddenly forgotten, or merely just the notion of a secret? From Animal Spirits by David McFadden.
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From Concordia's 1918 yearbook.
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From Coe College's 1965 yearbook.
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The cover gives it away -- there's a lot going on under Mannie's hat. From Under Mannie's Hat by Ruth Branston McDougall.
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From Der Bärenspiegel, 1946.
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unearths some literary gems.
From Having Fun, by Denis Mackail:
from the foreword:A preface or an introduction or a foreword....suggests that the author isn't such a clown or nitwit as some of the subsequent matter might suggest. "Ha!" says the reader. "A preface;" yet even as he skips it, he feels an increased respect for the rest of the volume.***[Mackail's "system"]I perceive the faint glimmerings of an idea. I seize it by the scruff, I wheedle and cajole it, and presently it ceases to glimmer, and develops a distinct outline. I then pat it on the back, give it a good meal, and prepare a careful scenario from it. I then sit down and write something which has absolutely no connection with it whatsoever.from "Mr. (and Mrs.) Mystery"Mr. Blankett and Mrs. Flaptonfrom "Ten for Tact"Professor Gumm and Doctor Rumpelbach [remember them, from another DK piece? here again, they're offstage characters only, this time joined in the wings by...]that clever Miss Pothecaryfrom "Bradsmith Was Wrong" [another callback--in this case a bookend; cf. previously snippetized story called "Bradsmith Was Right"]an utterly illegible postscript in which I could only distinguish a word that looked like "cheese"from "Calling a Cab"Mrs. Netherhampton--hitherto (and also hereafter, for the sake of simplicity) known to us as Aunt Maudefrom "The Kiss-Effect"[the setting is a soundstage filming session]In the dark little projection-room...a farrago of blithering rubbish was being poured on to the undersized screen. Not that it would be blithering rubbish--or, to be more accurate, not that the public would consider it blithering rubbish--when it had all been cut and edited and arranged in the right order.***"Query shadow," wrote a hand emerging from the sleeve of a pullover. "Query sleigh-bells," wrote another. "Query old joke," wrote a smaller hand with a couple of rings on it.***"Fred! Sam! Mr. Noseworthy!"from "The Courtship of Beano Blennerhassett"A ceremony without young Beano's attendance might be perfectly legal, but the idea had got about, at any rate during that particular season, that it would be much safer if he were there. There was something about young Beano's waistcoats that no mere clergyman or caterer could hope to replace.***Miss Hyacinth Worple-Dewsbury***Miss Worple-Dewsbury's younger sister Cowslip***He put in a rush order for an absolute whale of a waistcoat and the very dickens of a tie.***He plunged into the throng, seized an ice from an astonished dowager, a glass of champagne from a flabbergasted admiral, a plate of sandwiches from a poor relation, and was back again by the gramophone in almost less time than it takes to tell.***[!]He made it sufficiently clear--in spite of innumerable ambiguities, anti-climaxes, ellisions [sic], hiatuses, inversions, oxymorons, pleonasms and one or two zeugmas...that his love was a definite arbutus.from "Romance at Belloni's"the Honourable Algernon Frothingham and the distinctly talented Miss Sunshine Potts***No Kidding, a transatlantic operatta which was positively packing the Palaceum***Carlo's smile and Carlo's adjectives were only waiting to consolidate and crystallize anything that might come their way.from "The Two-Seater""He's asleep!"The evidence of dead silence might have seemed insufficient to some people, since it is quite possible to be awake in a room by oneself without talking, coughing, groaning or kicking the furniture.***She could have wished that she had managed the first [gear] change...with less resemblance to the sound of a giant clearing his throat.from "The Best Man""There was a sort of light in her eyes, and a sort of absolute I-can't-describe-it on her mouth."from "As a Matter of Fact"But this--for grammarians will already have pounced on my use of the pluperfect tense--was before my experience had been enlarged by the incidents which I am about to describe.***The urgent thing that remained was to find out what in the name of thunder he had been doing, and why in the name of everything else he had made such a mystery of it.from "What Noise Annoys an Author?"Hey, not to say ho, for the kind of work that was going to knock that American syndicate endways.***Mrs. Blizzard***Messrs. Snapper and Snapper [house agents]***[narrator's aside upon the introduction of a "young lady" as a second main character]But if you think, now, that he's going to marry her, you're wrong.[I admit I did--and, based on past experience, with no little justification!]***Ideas were coming from Heaven alone knows where, words were being selected from that strange garbage-heap known as the English language; they were meeting; they were running down Mr. Longridge's right arm; they were flowing over his sheaf of paper.***"My name's Hill-Hill. Freda Hill-Hill."***And yet--and yet...Three more very literary dots...***[In various stories, Mackail's characters exclaim "Blank!" or "Oh, blank!" I explored this on Facebook.]In various early 20th-c. short stories I've been reading by Denis Mackail, vexed characters are represented as using "Oh, blank!" as an expletive. I think I've probably seen other British authors of yore use this euphemistic oath as well.So, obviously, "blank" stands in for stronger language, language that might have been deemed unacceptable in the light fiction of that era. What I'm wondering, though, is whether real-life oath-inhibited people ever actually *said* "Oh, blank!" in so many words, or whether "Oh, blank!" was only ever an author's convention, seen in print but never heard, with real-life folks relying on their various other euphemisms.I've just consulted my New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, which I should have done sooner. It notes, for the expletive "blank," that it is "written more often than spoken, but not without uses in speech." (I also usually search old literature via Google Books to research this kind of language stuff—but obviously there would be an unavoidable paradox in this instance!)Incidentally, the note I quoted from Partridge above is in an entry that lumps "blank," "blankety," and "blankety-blank" all together. I'm pretty familiar with "blankety-blank (etc.)" in popular culture. More curious about "Oh, blank!" specifically.A question that even slang researchers might not easily be able to answer is whether "Oh, blank!" actually *originated* in print (as a publisher's precursor to the journalese "[expletive deleted]" that I personally recall from the 1970s), to then pass into oral use; or whether it followed the more typical path of slang in general, arising in oral culture first and then being naturalistically incorporated into fictional dialogue. By the way, Partridge traces the "blank" family of expletives back to the mid-19th century.***
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From Flora Macdonald College's 1932 yearbook.
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"Jumps like kangaroo. Ohio wild man gnaws bones and lives on garbage." From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1907.
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From Oberlin College's 1916 yearbook.
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From The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1919.
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An evolution machine from Northwestern University's 1896 yearbook.
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A chipmunk prank. From Chatterbox, 1903.
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From Lebanon Valley's 1900 yearbook.
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From Swarthmore's 1898 yearbook.
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From Wesleyan College's 1967 yearbook.
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"But no priest can be a husband." From The Century, 1893.
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From North Central's 1931 yearbook.
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"Do you need help with your nerves?" From The War Cry, 1969.
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From Albion College's 1940 yearbook.
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"Misery loves company," especially in the form of money. From Vassar's 1945 yearbook.
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"What will your mirror say?" From Lighted Pathway, 1949.
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"Here We Come" by Mary Jane Dobyns. From MacMurray's 1938 yearbook.
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Here's a precursor to Danny DeVito. It's the diminutive Benny DeVoto. From Purple Parrot, 1928.
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"Comes now 'flying ice cream cone'" (1950). Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2001.
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The handbook is safe from magnets but vulnerable to tearing, being eaten by a goat, being set on fire, and being spilled upon. From the Phantasie IV Handbook.
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From Indiana University's 1910 yearbook.
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From Kansas State's 1917 yearbook.
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From Improvement Era, 1951.
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From the highly cursed Nightmare Land by G. Orr Clark and illustrated by Caroline Love Goodwin, 1901.
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From the University of Omahas 1917 yearbook.
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unearths some literary gems.
From Vanity Fair, 1913:
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From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
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Here's a precursor to The Truman Show. "Town is a movie stage." From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1915.
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Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2001.
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From Kladderadatsch, 1924.
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From Lighted Pathway, 1983.
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From the College of William and Mary's 1980 yearbook.
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"Dictator of subsidiary dictatorships." From Saint Francis College's 1939 yearbook.
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Wolf versus dog, over a crib: which would you wager for the win? From Chatterbox, 1879.
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From North Texas State College's 1954 yearbook.
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From Ohio University's 1958 yearbook.
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From Hampden-Sydney College's 1920 yearbook.
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From Purple Parrot, 1931.
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From Indiana University's 1914 yearbook.
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From Wesleyan College's 1917 yearbook.
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From University of Redlands's 1984 yearbook.
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The Anti-normal Club. From Hampden-Sydney College's 1920 yearbook.
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Today's boxing centaur is from Nebelspalter, 1938.
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"An enthusiastic closet case." From Washington College's 1966 yearbook.
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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 Lustige Blätter, 1906.
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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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| [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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This pathway into the past may be used to facilitate astral or time travel. From Earlham's 1925 yearbook.
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From Lighted Pathway, 1968.
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From Longwood's 1931 yearbook.
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From Purple Parrot, 1929.
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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 Western Reserve University's 1923 yearbook.
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From Fables and Tales by W. F. Rocheleau, 1897.
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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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unearths some literary gems.
***
It is probably unnecessary to say much about Eugenia Rubicon-Bott, the late founder of Summerfield.
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[I like Professor Praetzellis's sly allusion to his godlike role as author.]
It was with a sense of foreboding that Hannah began to stretch for her early morning run.
And who could blame her? On both of the previous two mornings she had encountered some kind of weird scenario. It was almost as if she were being manipulated into these bizarre situations by an all-powerful force.
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Bonuses:
1. The author refers to "a flurry of buildings" that appear as the protagonists progress over a hill toward a settlement.
2. In the intro to this new edition, the author discusses taking some feedback to heart, indicating, for example, that he revised passages that supported one reader's perception that he'd "swallowed a dictionary."
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From Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne and illustrated by Milo Winter, 1913.
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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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For us, it's the close up unidentifiable lights and objects that are the uncanniest. Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2002.
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"Suddenly, life changes: she has a man to feed three times every day." I guess that means that the trip she had planned, the planting of wild geraniums, and her butterfly collection are all cancelled. From Together, 1960.
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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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One of 38 Playboy bunny mascots in Thornton Junior College's 1959 yearbook (a phenomenon that goes unexplained).
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From William and Mary's 1948 yearbook.
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Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing. Click each image for its source.
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From Wake Forest's 1920 yearbook.
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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 Earlham's 1925 yearbook.
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"I choose to live." From Lighted Pathway, 1983.
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From the College of William and Mary's 1980 yearbook.
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From Purple Parrot, 1941.
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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 East Tennessee State University's 1953 yearbook.
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"An imprisoned owl." From Chatterbox, 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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From the University of Chicago's 1898 yearbook.
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From Ohio State University's College of Medicine's 1955 yearbook.
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We tracked down a temporal anomaly in Perry, Florida: two sides of the sheriff's station sport different times, both incorrect.
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A series of castles in the air going up a cloud mountain? We've never encountered the like! From Oxford College's 1913 yearbook.
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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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| [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 Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought |
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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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| [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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From Twinkle Toes and His Magic Mittens by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by F. R. Morgan, 1919.
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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 Psychiatric Bulletin, 1952.
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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 L'Assiette au Beurre, 1911.
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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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If you were looking for a setting for your next story, here's one. From Park College's 1937 yearbook.
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Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing. Click each image for its source.
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Thought transference. From Park College's 1932 yearbook.
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From the College of William and Mary's 1980 yearbook.
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From Purple Parrot, 1931.
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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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"He fell in love with himself." From Purdue University's 1891 yearbook.
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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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| I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought |
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A yuletide without a ritual appeasement of the Frog in Fez? Unimaginable—and yet, who today can honestly comprehend the holiday cards of old in which a pipe-smoking frog in a fez sent best wishes for Christmas? It would seem that all things, animate and inanimate, worlds, suns, systems, Christmases, and frogs, their cycles have! Nothing abides. Through the endless tides of time, the law of change is written everywhere (except upon out-of-print holiday greeting cards). In and of it all, endowed with a brief personality like a frog in a fez, we grope, guess, gasp, and are gone. Oh, the lost, forgotten traditions of a household! Of a people! Of a world! Why is this thus? Why is anything thus?
An eternity of cycles—and yet! No first frog in fez, no last frog in fez, no beginning ... and therefore no end! The frog in fez must occur in some way. Its last incarnation might have been different—perhaps better, perhaps worse. The same question might be asked in any situation. Why not a toad? Why not a cricket helmet? Why not a frog in fez once again reigning as the most beloved mouthpiece of Christmas?
Let us better understand the Frog in Fez's lost history: its incumbent rituals, its songs, its dances, its joys, its threats. Then, spirit willing, let us rehabilitate and then deliberately reintroduce the Frog in Fez into the wilds of Christmas.
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| I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought |
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Thurston Owl III perches atop a contraption (still-secret, but peekable here). His eyes blink in answer to questions (yea, nay, or perchance). In full disclosure, he guides virtually every aspect of my life (and he approves of this message).
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"118 years is a long time to sing." From The Daily Tar Heel, 1965.
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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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Sad news. From The Current Sauce, 1953.
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A glowing tree from The [Sacramentio City College] Pioneer, 1970.
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"Spacemen show us your powers." From UFO Review, 1980.
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From Concordia's 1918 yearbook.
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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 the University of Chicago's 1908 yearbook.
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We wouldn't go anywhere without our plastic pancake sports hat held on head by ribbon. From Popular Mechanics, 1942.
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From Western Reserve University's 1923 yearbook.
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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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unearths some literary gems.
From "The Lost Tragedy," by Denis Mackail:
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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 Nebraska Wesleyan University's 1909 yearbook.
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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 Manchester College's 1931 yearbook.
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From Purple Parrot, 1931.
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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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"Look alive! You can be replaced by a button." From North Texas State University's 1968 yearbook.
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Today's tiny monkeys are from The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1919.
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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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| I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought |
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"How not to be yourself." From Together, 1964.
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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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We, too, trick Lady Luck by wearing a disguise while gambling. From Pembroke's 1989 yearbook.
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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 Pembroke's 1978 yearbook.
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From Le Journal Amusant, 1891.
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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 Tulane's 1902 yearbook.
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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 Indiana University's 1948 yearbook.
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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 Emerson College's 1919 yearbook.
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"Three merry boys I trow are we." Date uncertain.
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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 Indiana University's 1924 yearbook.
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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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"We'll not play against each other; we'll play against the world" (G. Stuart Ogilvie, The Sin of St. Hulda 1896). From Barnard College's 1947 yearbook.
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From Centenary College of Louisiana's 1923 yearbook.
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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 Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought |
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"To be comic, to meet death as a clown--it is tragedy; it is horror!" From Collier's, 1915.
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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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| [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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A crow telling the secret. From Edda and the Oak by Elia Wilkinson Peattie and illustrated by Katherine Merrill, 1911.
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From L'Oeil de la Police, 1908.
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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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Everything you've heard about the 1970s was true. From Bridgewater's 1978 yearbook.
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A bleeb. From Wizardry Monsters Manual.
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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 Lumières Dans la Nuit, 1979.
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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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Memories of college. From North Adams' 1970 yearbook.
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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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Here we learn that one in five people has a kidney bean for a brain. That explains a lot! From Kansas State's 1973 yearbook.
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From Purple Parrot, 1927.
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From the University of Pittsburgh, Titusville's 1979 yearbook.
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"Thanksgiving spelled with an M." From Improvement Era, 1935.
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From the University of Alberta's 1963 yearbook.
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"Tiptoe through the tulips." From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals's Our Dumb Animals, 1946.
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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 Colorado State's 1903 yearbook.
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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 the University of Montana's 1920 yearbook.
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May looters covet not your bibelots. From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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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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The mysterious "James T. Dooley" on the front cover of Emory's 1983 yearbook.
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Laughing so hard that he loses control of himself. From The Moon Prince by Richard Kendall Munkittrick, 1893.
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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 The Film Daily, 1940.
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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 the Peace Institute's 1924 yearbook.
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From Kansas State's 1973 yearbook.
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From Purple Parrot, 1924.
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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 Birmingham-Southern's 1929 yearbook.
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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 the North Carolina College for Women's 1925 yearbook.
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From the Duluth Herald, 1913.
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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 Erskine College's 1915 yearbook.
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You've heard of the "seven ages of man," but apparently there are actually twelve. From Chatterbox, 1879.
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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 Carolina College's 1925 yearbook.
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From the rare The Fireside Sphinx by Agnes Repplier and illustrated by Elizabeth Bonsall, 1901.
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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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"Cattlemen attracted": a precursor to Brokeback Mountain? From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1905.
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Not heeding what the secret message says. From Kids and The Apple by Edward Carlson, 1983.
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"To the riddle of me." From Lenoir-Rhyne's 1972 yearbook.
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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 Rockford's 1915 yearbook.
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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 Bates College's 1924 yearbook.
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From Unknown magazine, July 1940.
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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 University of Montana's 1947 yearbook.
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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 Manchester College's 1929 yearbook.
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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 Purple Parrot, 1924.
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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 McGill's 1925 yearbook.
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"Woke up to a loud noise and saw three masked shadows carrying out the Demon." From Current Sauce, 1981.
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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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unearths some literary gems.
From "Bang!" by Denis Mackail:
[Just two fictitious show names to report here: White Whiskers; and Stuff and Nonsense!]
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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 Oberlin College's 1927 yearbook.
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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 Hampden-Sydney College's 1920 yearbook.
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"We need to be uneasy." From Together, 1961.
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From Northeastern's 1923 yearbook.
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These creatures are in our neighborhood and come out when it rains. They've been designated a non-native species. From Wizardry Gaiden I: Suffering of the Queen Strategy Guide.
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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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One foot in the trash. From Bates College's 1924 yearbook.
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From Der Guckkasten, 1909.
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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 Otterbein's 1909 yearbook.
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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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"Be a non-conformist. Use the walk." From Wake Forest's 1972 yearbook.
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From La Baïonnette, 1916.
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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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"Non-drinkers use imagination to find weekend entertainment." From Kansas State's 1973 yearbook.
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From Purple Parrot, 1924.
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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 State Teacher's College, Farmville's 1925 yearbook.
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From Rosicrucian Digest, 1935.
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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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Today's pear of meekness is from Eastern Pilgrim Colleges 1955 yearbook.
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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 Wake Forest College's 1932 yearbook.
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From Improvement Era, 1930.
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From the University of Tampa's 1950 yearbook.
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You've heard that we "win some, lose some," but when we do the math, it turns out we win 5 and lose 5. From Michigan State College's 1950 yearbook.
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"Let's fly away, cookies!" From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1903.
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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 Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought |
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Walking on water is ...
- no trick: all you do is step over the edge and not look down
- “a piece of cake” compared to walking on mud
- knowing where the stones are
- better than breaking through ice
- scary business
- the same act as creating the world
- using the water's surface tension for support
- like walking on knives
- to experience the joy in living
- really no greater act of faith than flying a plane into the skies
- seeing and feeling the given miracle of life in every moment
- optional
- exactly like walking on land
- hard enough, but dancing on water — boy, that was tough
- not only a miracle — it’s advisable
- impossible, if you are human
- certainly not as great as rising from the dead
- not yet one of the skills taught in school
- not something people are born with, but rather a skill that anyone can develop if they learn to trust their vision and persevere in their practice
- the shouted "yes" to all that life will bring
- certainly not the “natural” thing to do
- not among my party tricks
- easy to someone with impulsive boldness
- more common than I’d once thought
[Snippets gathered during the course of our research.] See Bullet Lists.
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From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1948.
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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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College fashion has changed so much since the 70s. From Florida Southern's 1974 yearbook.
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We have a hedge outside our window and often wonder whether this sort of thing is going on behind it. From Goofy Mrs. Goose, written and illustrated by Miriam Clark Potter.
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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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We actually know the guy on the far left. The Brotherhood of Failings. From John Dough and the Cherub by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John Neill, 1906.
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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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An ex libris from Bates College's 1924 yearbook.
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"Sasquatch getting bolder?" From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1974.
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From the United States Naval Academy's 1944 yearbook.
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From The Century Illustrated, 1883.
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From Wake Forest's 1972 yearbook.
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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 Manchester College's 1929 yearbook.
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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 Kansas State's 1973 yearbook.
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"Guess who, Eve?" From Purple Parrot, 1932.
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From University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1908 yearbook.
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Pale, emaciated, and hungry as ever. From Hand-Made Fables by George Ade and illustrated by John T. McCutcheon, 1920.
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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 University of Western Ontario's 1932 yearbook.
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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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Today's snow-sphinx is from the University of Alberta's 1963 yearbook.
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"Art of music is in danger. Too many mechanical devices." From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1905.
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From Concordia's 1918 yearbook.
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From Fliegende Blätter, 1925.
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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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"Science is to his liking because it works while he sleeps." From Otterbein's 1909 yearbook.
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By Arthur Rackham. From St. Nicholas, 1913.
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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 Indiana University's 1912 yearbook.
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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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Neckties were slightly bigger in the 1970s. From Wake Forest's 1972 yearbook.
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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 way with most of us -- nothing under the hat." Lately, most folks don't even have hats, either. From Manchester College's 1929 yearbook.
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From Green Pipes by Joseph Rous Paget-Fredericks, 1929.
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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 Kansas State's 1973 yearbook.
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From Purple Parrot, 1932.
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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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unearths some literary gems.
From "An Artist in Crime," by Denis Mackail"
***"Oh, blank! Oh, asterisk!"***Beyond occasionally swearing in the most complicated manner, he was unable to settle on any course of action whatsoever.***
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"She was a delightful creature." From the Duluth Herald, 1920.
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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 Indiana University's 1924 yearbook.
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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 Northern State Teachers College's 1929 yearbook.
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From The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1919.
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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 man of the year, Moishe T. Pipick (whose name is explained here). From the University of Alberta's 1963 yearbook.
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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 Man in the Moon drinks claret." From Moon Lore by Timothy Harley, 1885.
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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 Indiana University's 1924 yearbook.
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Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2006.
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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 pira-rucu, from Scribner's, 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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| [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 not a butterfly's "cocoon" but rather a wishing blanket. This sort of science is rarely taught anymore ... and look at the state of the world. From The Bluebird's Garden by Patten Beard, 1915.
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From Wake Forest's 1945 yearbook.
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From the Master Of Monsters II handbook.
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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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| [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 Northeastern's 1922 yearbook.
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We spotted one person not praying and possibly not even thankful for the potluck. From Together, 1973.
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From Manchester College's 1929 yearbook.
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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 Purple Parrot, 1932.
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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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| [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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| [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 Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought |
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An altered comic from Lighted Pathway, 1939.
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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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| [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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"Around the sculptured altars drowsed in the wide and tenantless space the heavy-eyed augurs." From Scribner's, 1881.
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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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Memories of college. From Centenary's 1963 yearbook.
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From Amazing Stories, 1926.
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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 Wizardry Monsters Manual.
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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 Concordia's 1918 yearbook.
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From The Century Illustrated, 1889.
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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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Learning by osmosis requires testing by osmosis. From Kansas State's 1973 yearbook.
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From Purple Parrot, 1932.
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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 Watson's Magazine, 1906.
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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 National College of Education's 1931 yearbook.
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From The Improvement Era, 1956.
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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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unearths some literary gems.
I recommend this comic novel from 1901, about a young gentleman with a telescope who gets caught in an increasingly farcical mess involving his long-suffering grandmother, a pompous bully of an astronomer (who speaks of himself in the third person), a pair of self-conscious but insistent astrologers (one of whom frequently speaks in broken Latin), and an enthusiastic mischief maker who has intentionally embarked on a double life as a "silly" person because she was frustrated with being thought of as a "sensible" young woman. You'll meet a secret-mail librarian (at an establishment called Jellybrand's) who quibbles pedantically at every figure of speech; an affable Drones Club-type idiot who thinks Thackeray and his contemporaries are the latest thing; and a lady's companion named Mrs. Fancy Quinglet, who ends many of her speeches with "I can’t speak different nor mean other," and has refused to say the name of a dog called Beau after learning it's not spelled "Bow." I know Wodehouse was already active by this time, by I think Hichens was ahead of him in terms of this sort of ridiculously but cleverly entangled plot, its fashionable-London setting, and some of the characterizations--and here and there are some impressively Wodehousian paragraphs, stylistically speaking. (And just wait until you see what Hichens does with spates of telegrams, in chapter X!) Hichens also has a gift for some positively cartoonish descriptions of physical antics.Here's a link; snippets below, if you want a preview or a shortcut or snippets only.https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2463/2463-h/2463-h.htm#link2HCH0001***A grandmother’s clock pronounced the hour of ten in a frail and elegant voice***He was a neatly-made little man of fashionable, even of modish, cut, spare, smart and whimsical, with a clean-shaved, small-featured face, large, shining brown eyes, abundant and slightly-waving brown hair, that could only be parted, with the sweetest sorrow, in the centre of his well-shaped, almost philosophical head, and movements light and temperate as those of a meditative squirrel.***As he spoke he threw his black overcoat wide open, seated himself on the edge of one of the chairs in a dignified attitude, and crossed his feet—which were not innocent of spats—one over the other.***[One Letter Word dept.]"Sagittarius Lodge on the river—the river—what river did you say—?”“The River Mouse,” rejoined Malkiel in a muffled voice, and shaking his head sadly.“Exactly—on the River Mouse at Crompton—”“Crampton.”“Crampton St. Peter total—”“N.!”“What?”“Crampton St. Peter. N. That is the point.”[...]“I ask you what does en mean? I am, I fear, a very ill-informed person, and I really don’t know.”“Think of an envelope, sir,” said Malkiel, with gentle commiseration. “Well, are you thinking?”The Prophet grew purple.“I am—but it is no use. Besides, why on earth should I think of an envelope? I beg you to explain.”“North, sir, the northern postal district of the metropolis. Fairly simple that—I think, sir.”“N.!” cried the illuminated Prophet. “I see. I was thinking of en all the time. I beg your pardon. Please go on. N.—of course!”***The young librarian helped the fatigued-looking wine into the two glasses, where it lay as if thoroughly exhausted by the effort of getting there.***The torrent of knocks roared louder, slightly failed upon the ear, made a crescendo, emulated Niagara, surpassed that very American effort of nature, wavered, faltered to Lodore, died away to a feeble tittup like water dropping from a tap to flagstones, rose again in a final spurt that would have made Southey open his dictionary for adjectives, and drained away to death.***The venerable astronomer was already very stout in person and very inflamed in appearance. But at this point in the discourse he suddenly became so very much stouter and so very much more inflamed, that his audience of three gazed upon him rather as little children gaze upon dough which has been set by the cook to “rise” and which is fulfilling its mission with an unexpected, and indeed intemperate, vivacity. Their eyes grew round, their features rigid, their hands tense, their attitudes expectant. Leaning forward, they stared upon Sir Tiglath with an unwinking fixity and preternatural determination that was almost entirely infantine. And while they did so he continued slowly to expand in size and to deepen in colour until mortality seemed to drop from him. He ceased to be a man and became a phenomenon, a purple thing that journeyed towards some unutterable end, portentous as marching judgment, tragic as fate, searching as epidemic, and yet heavily painted and generally touched up by the brush of some humorous demon, such as lays about him in preparation for Christmas pantomime, sworn to provide the giants’ faces and the ogres’ heads for Drury Lane.“Don’t!” at last cried a young voice. “Don’t, Sir Tiglath!”A peal of laughter followed the remark, of that laughter which is loud and yet entirely without the saving grace of merriment, a mere sudden demonstration of hysteria.“Oh, Sir Tiglath—don’t!”A second laugh joined the first and rang up with it, older, but also hysterical—Mrs. Merillia’s.“No, no—please don’t, Sir Tig—Tig—”A third laugh burst into the ring, seeming to complete it fatally—the Prophet’s.“Sir Tiglath—for Heaven’s sake—don’t!”The adjuration came from a trio of choked voices, and might have given pause even to a descending lift or other inflexible and blind machine.But still the astronomer grew steadily more gigantic in person and more like the god of wine in hue. The three voices failed, and the terrible, united laughter was just upon the point of breaking forth again when a diversion occurred. The door of the drawing-room was softly opened, and Mrs. Fancy Quinglet appeared upon the threshold, holding in her hands an ice-wool shawl for the comfort of her mistress. It chanced that as the phenomenon of the astronomer was based upon a large elbow chair exactly facing the door she was instantly and fully confronted by it. She did not drop the shawl, as any ordinary maid would most probably have done. Mrs. Fancy was not of that kidney. She did not even turn tail, or give a month’s warning or a scream. She was of those women who, when they meet the inevitable, instinctively seem to recognise that it demands courage as a manner and truth as a greeting. She, therefore, stared straight at Sir Tiglath—much as she stared at Mrs. Merillia when she was about to arrange that lady’s wig for an assembly—and remarked in a decisive, though very respectful, tone of voice,—“The gentleman’s about to burst, ma’am. I can’t speak different nor mean other.”Upon finding their thoughts thus deftly gathered up and woven into a moderately grammatical sentence, Mrs. Merillia, Lady Enid and the Prophet experienced a sense of extraordinary relief, and no longer felt the stern necessity of laughing. But this was not the miracle worked by Mrs. Fancy. Had she, even then, rested satisfied with her acumen, maintained silence and awaited the immediate fulfilment of her prediction, what must have happened can hardly be in doubt. But she was seized by that excess of bravery which is called foolhardiness, and driven by it to that peculiar and thoughtless vehemence of action which sometimes wins V.C.‘s for men who, in later days, conceal amazement under the cherished decoration. She suddenly laid down the ice-wool shawl upon a neighbouring sociable, walked up to the phenomenon of the astronomer, and remarked to it with great distinctness,—“You’re about to burst, sir. I know it, sir, and I can’t know other.”[a little later]He began to expand once more, but Mrs. Merillia perceived the tendency and checked it in time.“Pray, Sir Tiglath,” she said almost severely, “don’t. With my sprained ankle I am really not equal to it.”***There are moments when the mere expression in another person’s eyes seems to shout a request at one. The expression in the Prophet’s eyes performed this feat at this moment, with such abrupt vehemence, that Lady Enid felt almost deafened.***The Prophet glanced towards Lady Enid. She was looking almost narrow and not at all pleased. She, and all her family, had a habit of suddenly appearing thinner than usual when they were put out.***“Sir Tiglath is really, as an old man, what everybody thinks I am, as a young woman. D’you see?”“You mean?”“The opposite of me. And in this way too. While I hide my silliness under my eyebrows, and hair, and smile, and manner, he hides his sensibleness under his. When people meet me they always think—what a common-sense young woman! When they meet him they always think—what a preposterous old man!”“Well, but then,” cried the Prophet, struck by a sudden idea, “if that is so, how can you live a double life as Miss Minerva Partridge? You can’t change your eyebrows with your name!”***“Here’s a go, Gustavus,” remarked Mr. Ferdinand a moment later as he entered the servants’ hall.“Where, Mr. Ferdinand?” replied Gustavus***On the left side of her pelisse reposed a round bouquet of violets about the size of a Rugby football.***So saying the Prophet hurried away, leaving Mr. Ferdinand almost as firmly rooted to the Turkey carpet with surprise as if he had been woven into the pattern at birth, and never unpicked in later years.***An eight-day clock, which was carefully and lovingly wound up by the prudent Mrs. Fancy Quinglet every morning and evening, snored peacefully in a recess by the hearth.***To say that Mr. Ferdinand ceased from looking through the telescope for the Lord Chancellor’s second-cook at this juncture would, perhaps, not convey quite a fair idea of the activity which he could on occasion display even at his somewhat advanced age. It might be more just to state that, without wasting any precious time in useless elongation, he described an exceedingly rapid circular movement, still preserving the shortened form of himself which had so deceived and startled his master, and brought his eye from the orifice of the telescope to a level with the Prophet’s knees exactly at the moment when the Prophet rebounded from the plate chest into the centre of the apartment.***[Being Confused by a Horse dept.]“I beg your pardon. I—the horse confuses me.”***“You’re worse than I am! It’s splendid!”“Worse!”“Why, yes. You’re foolish enough to think your silly acts sensible. I wish I could get to that.”***Lady Enid and the Prophet discovered the astronomer sitting there tete-a-tete with a muffin.***"Madame is possessed of a magnificent library, sir, encyclopaedic in its scope and cosmopolitan in its point of view. In it are represented every age and every race since the dawn of letters; thousands upon thousands of authors, sir, Rabelais and Dean Farrar, Lamb and the Hindoos, Mettlelink and the pith of the great philosophers such as John Oliver Hobbes, Locke, Hume and Earl Spencer; the biting sarcasm of Hiny, the pathos of Peps, the oratorical master-strokes of such men as Gladstone, Demosthenes and Keir Hardie; the romance of Kipling, sir, of Bret Harte and Danty Rossini; the poetry of Kempis a Browning and of Elizabeth Thomas Barrett—all, all are there bound in Persian calf."***“What have I always said! All prophets are what they call outsiders—hors d’oeuvres, neither more nor less.”***He began to steal, like a shadow, across the hall, and, impressed by his surreptitious manner, his old and valued friends instinctively followed his example. All three of them, then, with long steps and theatrical pauses, were stagily upon the move, when suddenly the door that led to the servants’ quarters swung open and Mrs. Fancy Quinglet debouched into their midst, succeeded by Mr. Ferdinand, who carried in his hand a menu card in a silver holder. At the moment of their appearance the Prophet, holding his finger to his lips, was taking a soft and secret stride in the direction of the library door, his body bent forward and his head protruded towards the sanctum he longed to gain, and Madame and Mr. Sagittarius, true to the instinct of imitation that dwells in our monkey race, were in precisely similar attitudes behind him. The hall being rather dark, and the gait of the trio it contained thus tragically surreptitious, it was perhaps not unnatural that Mrs. Fancy should give vent to a piercing cry of terror, and that Mr. Ferdinand should drop the menu and crouch back against the wall in a hunched position expressive of alarm. At any rate, such were their actions, while—for their part—the Prophet and his two old and valued friends uttered a united exclamation and struck three attitudes that were pregnant with defensive amazement.***“I am an outside broker. I swear it. My dress, my manner proclaim the fact. Sophronia, tell the gentleman that I am an outside broker and that all Margate has recognised me as such.”“My husband states the fact,” said Madame, in response to this impassioned appeal. “My husband brokes outside, and has done for the last twenty years."***[Pathetic Fallacy with Ice Cream dept.]Mr. Ferdinand, who was trembling in every limb at having to assist at such a scene in his dining-room, which had hitherto been the very temple of soft conversation and the most exquisite decorum, advanced towards Madame, clattering the flat silver dish, and causing the frozen delicacy that the cook had elegantly posed upon it to run first this way and then that as if in imitative agitation.***“Mrs. Eliza Doubleway!” shouted the footman.“Mrs. Eliza!” cried Mr. Sagittarius, in great excitement. “That’s the soothsayer from the Beck!”“Madame Charlotte Humm!” yelled the footman.“Madame Humm!” vociferated Mr. Sagittarius, “the crystal-gazer from the Hill!”“Professor Elijah Chapman!” bawled the footman.“The nose-reader!” piped Mr. Sagittarius. “The nose-reader from the Butts!”[...]“Dr. Birdie Soames!” interposed the vibrant bass of the footman.“The physiognomy lady from the Common!” said Mr. Sagittarius, on the point of breaking down under the emotion of the moment.***From all sides rose the hum of comment and the murmur of speculation. Pince-nez were adjusted, eyeglasses screwed into eyes, fingers pointed, feet elevated upon uneasy toes.***Mittens, too, were visible covered with cabalistic inscriptions in glittering beadwork.***[Disguised as Oneself dept.]“I know!” she cried, after a moment’s thought. “I’ll masquerade to-night as myself.”“As yourself?”“Yes. All these dear silly people here think that I’ve got an astral body.”“What’s that?”“A sort of floating business—a business that you can set floating.”“What—a company?”“No, no. A replica of yourself. The great Towle—”“He’s here to-night.”“I knew he was coming. Well, the great Towle detached this astral body once at a séance and, for a joke—a silly joke, you know—”“Yes, yes.”“I christened it by my real name, Lady Enid Thistle, and said Lady Enid was an ancestress of mine.”“Why did you?”“Because it was so idiotic.”“I see.”“Well, I’ve only now to spread a report among these dear creatures that I’m astral to-night, and get Towle to back me up, and I can easily be Lady Enid for an hour or two. In this crowd Sir Tiglath need never find out that I’m generally known in these circles as Miss Partridge.”***"I suddenly began to feel astral just as I was going to eat a sandwich."***“The old astronomer does not know the meaning of the word—fear.”Exactly as he uttered these inspiring words the hall clock growled, like a very large dog, and struck two. Sir Tiglath started and caught hold of Gustavus, who started in his turn and shrank away. The Prophet alone stood up to the clock, which finished its remark with a click, and resumed its habitual occupation of ticking.the_silly_life
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Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
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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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Our power supply is flickering, to be honest. From Lighted Pathway, 1973.
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From Fables and Tales by W. F. Rocheleau, 1897.
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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
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A town with hands-free clocks. From ROM, 1978.
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"If they exist, are extraterrestrials good or evil?" Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2003.
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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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A holy limp wrist and an inn key. From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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From Classics Illustrated Junior, The Ugly Duckling.
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From The Film Daily, 1924.
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The yearbook staff posed like fashion models. From Wittenberg's 1956 yearbook
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"Don't move to 'sightless town.'" From Illustrated World, 1922.
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From University of the South's 1891 yearbook.
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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 Earlham's 1906 yearbook.
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From Purple Parrot, 1926.
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From Wake Forest College's 1932 yearbook.
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"A painter sees the world in terms of what may be painted" (Luis Camnitzer, "Looking Through Art and Around It"). From Goshen College's 1959 yearbook.
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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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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
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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 mathematical mnemonic for how many books are in the Old and New Testaments. From Lighted Pathway, 1935.
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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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Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing. Click each image for its source.
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A full moon above, in front of, and inside of the building. From Kent State's 1983 yearbook.
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From Le Courrier Français, 1887.
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Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
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From The Enchanted Bird by Antoinette Decoursey Patterson and illustrated by Elizabeth Pilsbry, 1917.
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Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
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The acorn sisters from Busy Folk by Mary E. Laing & Andrew W. Edson and illustrated by Clara E. Atwood, 1913.
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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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"How about beyond?" From Beyond Fantasy Fiction, 1954.
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From Fort Wayne's 1977 yearbook.
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From The Boy's Own Paper, 1884.
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From Tulane's 1925 yearbook.
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From The Purple Parrot, 1928.
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Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
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unearths some literary gems.
From "The Lost Cocktail," by Denis Mackail:
[This piece was like something straight out of early Wodehouse. (Mackail was a good friend and, of course, admirer of PGW.)]***[This follows a long-winded rhetorical question on the part of the narrator.]And when we put a question in that particular tone of voice, you should know quite well that we haven't the smallest intention of waiting for any answer.***"A very pleasant young lady, sir, if I may--""Pleasant!...My dear Francis, if you call Miss Melbury pleasant, you'd call Methuselah middle-aged.***"I worship the very air she walks on, and the ground she breathes."***"My uncle and old Melbury are both what's-its-names. You know. Not shop-walkers, but--""Churchwardens, sir?""That's it."***Bonus: a character called Miss Pansy Pocock
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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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William Shakespeare is credited as an editor of Piedmont College's 1960 yearbook, but we detected more of a Francis Bacon feel.
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"Eat much sugar." From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1904.
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A coloring book going sophisticated reminds of the one that requires only a paper-colored crayon, for which there's even an audio version( !). Headline from The Australian Women's Weekly, 1963.
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This puzzle is remarkably easy for a $1200 prize (adjusted for inflation). But this test of U.S. state names was pitched to Canadians, and we must also remember that the contest was really about gathering people's names and addresses and so was designed not to rule anybody out. From Farmer's Magazine, 1913.
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"The 1970s were a mess" (Brian Morton). Photo from Fort Wayne Bible College's 1974 yearbook.
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From the Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn handbook.
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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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| [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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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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You knew that prisms bend light, but they also bend time. From Calvin College's 1954 yearbook.
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From Tulane's 1925 yearbook.
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From Muskingum College's 1931 yearbook.
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"Lights burn out." From Improvement Era, 1940.
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From Lamaism by L. Austine Waddell, 1934.
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From Susquehanna University's 1932 yearbook.
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From North Andover High-Lites, 1960.
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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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Here's a precursor to the bands Backdoor Men ( Ohio, 1977 and Sweden, 1982). From Goshen College's 1967 yearbook.
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Songfacts reminds us that in " You're So Vain," Carly Simon sang about the subject having flown his Learjet up to Nova Scotia to see the total eclipse of the sun. Nova Scotia was indeed the prime viewing location for that eclipse (July 10, 1972), but the song came out before the event. Songfacts posits three theories, but we have one more. They ask:
- Did she write the lyric in past tense because she did not think the record would be released until after the eclipse? Or she did not think it would become popular until after the eclipse?
- Did this guy tell her about the upcoming eclipse and his plans to see it? Or did she know about the eclipse herself or did some other friend tell her about it as she was writing the lyrics - and she knew this guy would possibly fly to Nova Scotia to see the eclipse?
- Did this guy actually fly to Nova Scotia to see the eclipse? Or, did the release of this record actually make him decide NOT to fly to Nova Scotia to see the eclipse (AND, was this Carly Simon's purpose in writing the lyric)?
We would posit that the eclipse detail was included to ensure that the subject of the song didn't merely "probably" think this song was about him but rather be left with no doubt whatsoever (knowing that he had spoken of his Nova Scotia plans to Simon). The detail of the apricot-colored scarf wouldn't have been enough, since "apricot" was surely put in to rhyme with "gavotte."
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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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| I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought |
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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 folktale about a bat who writes poetry: The Bat-Poet by Randall Jarrell.
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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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Choose all that apply -- vulgar dances, suggestive songs, questionable associates, sex plays, lack of discipline in home, suggestive literature. From Lighted Pathway, 1935.
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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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From Colorado College's 1936 yearbook.
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From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1953.
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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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Whether or not you excel at trombone glissandos, may you always "drop the slide at the most critical moment" in whatever you do. The inscription reads, "To my trombone smearer, who drops the slide at the most critical moment." From St. Procopius' 1931 yearbook.
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From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1991.
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"The faithful beasts." From Grimm's Fairy Tales, illustrated by Blanche Fisher Laite, 1923.
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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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Smoke numbers. From Hanover's 1912 yearbook.
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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 Michigan State's 1947 yearbook.
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From Indiana University's 1924 yearbook.
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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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In parts one, two, and three, we saw how Dark Shadows beat Seinfeld to be the first show about nothing. Imagine entire scenes about nobody being anywhere, with questions about "Who wasn't there?"
Imagine a spooky house in which there is no evil ...
... and in which no one is under a curse ...
... because the ominous closets contain no skeletons:
[To be continued. Yes, there's more about nothing.]
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My ship seems to be the upside down one. From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1968.
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"The answers of the Unknown." From Medical College of Virginia's 1977 yearbook.
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"And never forget those swell times." From Pittsburg State's 1937 yearbook.
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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 Primary Education, 1911.
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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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"All sins are known to God. The 'All-Seeing-Eye' beholds all of man's actions. ... 'Secret sins' make hypocrites; pure heart is open." From The Duluth Herald, 1915.
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From East Tennessee State University's 1953 yearbook.
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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 University of Cincinnati's 1928 yearbook.
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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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unearths some literary gems.
From "Bradsmith Was Right," by Denis Mackail:
[This short piece merely offers a presumably nonexistent stage show called Oh, Angeline! written by lyricist Reginald Gooch and composer Otto Klinck.]
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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 Santa Clara College's 1956 yearbook.
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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 Wayne State University's 1945 yearbook.
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Cute artist's signature. From Indiana University's 1924 yearbook.
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From Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne and illustrated by Edmund Dulac, 1919.
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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 the University of Western Ontario's 1944 yearbook.
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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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