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"A tear-off calendar has just as much time as a perpetual calendar, although the time in question is not the same." —Deleuze & Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus

From 1903.

Here are some moon blessings, date uncertain.

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:

"All clear for happiness in 1939."

From 1916.  Scanned by the Nasjonalbiblioteket.

An illustration by Frederick Burr Opper for Puck magazine, 1885.

From Iconologia by Cesare Ripa, 1764.

From La Belle au Bois Dormant, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1920.

Happy new year.

"They began to dance round him."  From North Cornwall Fairies and Legends by Enys Tregarthen, 1906

Someone should write a book of form letters that tell the truth.  From Pearson's, 1897.

Here's how fiddling can lead to "violin(t) convulsions" and "spasmotic uncertainty," twisting away one's identity forever.  From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1869.

"Don't care if it snows."  Date uncertain.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to add the hovering visage of one Dixon L. Kepley.

"See that hump?  It contains something for you."  Circa 1892.

An illustration by Charles Kendrick for Chic magazine.

From The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum, 1909.

"I can only say, that book, readers, and author, ought all of them to continue in the dark."  From the red preface of Archery and Archness by Robin Hood, 1834.  [We previously saw why this preface is all in red.]

The "anthropophone" is a musical parlor game featuring a decorated bed sheet incribed as a sheet of music.  Holes are cut for the heads of singers to stick out, each representing one note.  As a song is played, each performer seeks to intone his or her note as it occurs -- to generally hilarious results.  From Pearson's, 1897.

A detail from a Russian card, date uncertain.

An illustration from Das Leben des Menschen by Fritz Kahn, 1927.

"An immense 'O' was seen upon it, with two 'X's' inside."   From "The Double X Mystery" by Thomas Keyworth, in Cassell's, 1890.

Here's an alcoholic monkey and parrot from a c. 1890 ad for luncheon meat.

Here's the large oak shading the king's palace.  "Den store eken skygget for kongsgården" by Theodor Kittelsen, date unknown.

You've heard of "the booze talking," but here's how it happens, c. 1935.  From the Leslie Jones Collection, Boston Public Library.

From Emblemes, 1635.

From East of the Sun and West of the Moon, 1922.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click for a different printing of the card.

"The next chap that lays hands on me, I'll drill full of holes."  From Andy's Adventures on Noah's Ark by Douglas Zabriskie Doty, 1902.  This should be of interest: A Field Guide to Identifying Unicorns by Sound.

"She wanted to clear her mind there and then."  From Pearson's, 1908.

Winter goes on strike.  From Cartoons Magazine, 1920.

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

INSTRUCTIONS: Click for three different versions.

You know your orange vegetables, but do you know your vegetable oranges?  From Northrup King & Co.'s 1900 seed catalog.

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

"The first heaven, that of the Moon, is guarded by the lowest order of angels" (in Dante's Paradiso, as noted in The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories), and here's what it looks like.  A guard stands before Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt's moon model at the Field Columbian Museum, 1898.

"Wellingtonia or mammoth tree (Sequoiadendron giganteum) towering above surrounding forest and person at its base."  Coloured lithograph after W. P. Blake, c. 1857.

Thanks to Donna in Kentucky for sending us her Prof. Oddfellow caricature!

From Die Muskete, 1927.

The eye[patch] in the pyramid.  From Die Muskete, 1919.

Here's a precursor to the film Weird Science.  "There in the other doorway stood the girl he had conjured up."   From Everybody's Magazine, 1908.

"The room leaped into light" -- illustrations that spanned two pages in Pearson's, 1908.

Here's a chair trick from Fun magazine, 1886.

Why a levitating flute?  We find our answer in literature: "She hears a levitating flute, seeking an even higher note, its sound eerie yet technical, and she knows what it means" (Paul West, Cheops, 2002).

A page from Hunter College's Wistarion yearbook, 1948.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

There's a fine line between the wrong way and the right way.  From Better Gardens, 1918.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to bring on the night.
(Photos originally scanned by the SMU Central University Libraries).

To devour a king's person was, in the 1400s, considered an act of "negromancy, sorcerie, heresie, and treason" (The Beauties of England and Wales, 1810).

By Erik Werenskiold, 1890.  This should also be of interest: How to Be Your Own Cat.