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A special request to those of you who rend the fabric of space-time and generate alternate timelines: please create a reality in which Billy Idol takes Kiefer Sutherland's role as lead lost boy vampire in The Lost Boys, as well as the role of mad-scientist-built Rocky in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, as well as the "pleasure model" replicant Pris in Bladerunner (you didn't think we'd suggest replacing Rutger Hauer, surely). We would also welcome Billy Idol in the role intended for him before a motorcycle accident forced recasting: the shapeshifting android assassin T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Why not Billy Idol replacing Sting in David Lynch's Dune? That's simple: David Lynch's Dune should never have happened in this or any other universe.
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From Wake Forest's 1974 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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Some new year's envy, greed, hatred, megalomania, and egotism. From Der Bärenspiegel, 1925.
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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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Every new year is a victim of "abandoned nest syndrome" and is left in the care of one clown or another. From Le Charivari, 1889.
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unearths some literary gems.
From Cork on the Water, by Macdonald Hastings:
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Colonel Johnson had applied himself to salmon-fishing with such single-minded purpose for so long that, with advancing years, he had acquired a noticeable resemblance to a salmon himself.
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Montague Cork's was a name to magic with. [My first experience of "magic" as a verb (unless there's simply a word missing from the sentence).]
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On a hook on the wall hung a tu-tu, a stiff white ballet skirt with two leg holes, like spectacles, in the underpart.
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[in a hotel register]
somebody called something hyphen Smith
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This is the most accurate depiction of how the years are threaded together than we've ever encountered. From Colorado College'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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Date uncertain. (Our own restoration.)
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From Fliegende Blätter, 1924.
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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 Rhode Island's 1912 yearbook.
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"December - January." From The Home-maker (1890)
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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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Killing time: like clockwork, the new year bludgeons the old, and it's as if nobody cares. From Shut, 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 Lustige Blätter, 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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Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing. Click each image for its source.
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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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| [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 Kladderadatsch, 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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| [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 L'Oeil de la Police, 1908.
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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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Cupid accidentally shoots a love arrow at a male couple, and the moon approves. From Nebelspalter, 1933.
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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 Three Giants" by Mrs. Marcet, in Eyes and No Eyes by M. V. O'Shea, 1900.
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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 Peace Institute's 1909 yearbook.
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"Everything in the universe falls into three general levels." From The Business of Life by A. B. ZuTavern and A. E. Bullock and illustrated by Leo Thiele, 1936.
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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 long, dark winter's night," from The Justice newspaper (Brandeis), 1992.
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A sun not of this world, from Pembroke's 1977 yearbook.
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From Lustige Blätter, 1908.
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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 Le Journal Amusant, 1904.
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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 Kladderadatsch, 1922.
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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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Reblog if you belong in the Nut Section. From the University of Washington's 1923 yearbook. Whether for payback or peace of mind, see How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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From the Elson Primary School Reader, Book One, 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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| [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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Walking the crocodile. From Nebelspalter, 1933.
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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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You must put your slippers on
To walk toward the dawn.
—the song of the sibyl, in Philip K. Dick's Exegesis
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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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Talking fish like " Billy Bass" are nothing new. This one, for example, ran a university in 1977. When these types retire, they go on lucrative speaking tours. Hence, the " Billy Bass" phenomenon. From Pembroke's 1977 yearbook.
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From Lustige Blätter, 1915.
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`-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' ` "The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News |
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| [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 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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In the grip of influenza. From Le Courrier Français, 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 Le Journal Amusant, 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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You've heard the expression, "walking on eggshells." Here's the opposite. From Kladderadatsch, 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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It isn't a practical joke. "Typewriter for the blind has six keys." From Popular Mechanics, 1928.
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Embalmed beef. From Jugend, 1899.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1904.
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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 Ole Miss yearbook of 1898.
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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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| [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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Upon closer examination, he realizes it isn't a Titian after all. From Nebelspalter, 1930.
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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 College's 1931 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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Peace or war -- it's decided very scientifically, and it's the bomb that tips the balance. From Nebelspalter, 1891.
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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 A Book of Fairy-Tale Foxes by Clifton Johnson and illustrated by Frank A. Nankivell, 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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"The sun was high and hot." From Muhlenberg's 1962 yearbook.
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"Sadism, insanity rampant." News we can believe, from Clarion Call, 1969.
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From Lustige Blätter, 1908.
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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, 1901.
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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 Journal Amusant, 1903.
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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 Kladderadatsch, 1933.
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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 photograph may be used to initiate time travel. From Taylor's Gem yearbook, 1926.
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From Judge's Library, 1892.
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"We had nothing before us." From Black Hawk's 1970 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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You didn't need a math professor to tell you that, no matter what the song says, one is not "the loneliest number." (But if you actually do need a math professor to tell you, Dr. Mason Porter of UCLA is there for you.) The lyric needs text doctoring, since one divided by two is in fact a half (.5): Original: One is a number divided by two.
Revision: One's the remainder when you once halve two.
If we do say so ourselves, our revision offers not only homophony (one's/once) but also wordplay (halve/have). (Don't knock us, for if we received even half the literary criticism we deserve, we wouldn't have to analyze our own work. Hint: this is your invitation to be part of the solution.)
Our headline from Greensboro's 1975 yearbook.
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The phrases "ironed sheet ghost" and "laundered sheet ghost" are both Googlewhacks, delivering zero results. But we may have ruined that with this controversial new release: Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.. Some folks are saying that the booklet doesn't actually exist. We offer proof, but as with seemingly all paranormal issues, not everyone agrees on what constitutes actual evidence.
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Applying lipstick as the world explodes. From Nebelspalter, 1933.
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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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INSTRUCTIONS: Click to see another version of the same postcard. Via Flickr. 
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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 "weight of time" that we feel in every breath looms upon us from the clock tower in the sky. It's there, no matter which way you turn, as proven by the endpapers of the University of Maryland, College Park yearbook of 1952.
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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, 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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From Le Journal Amusant, 1905.
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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 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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Iowa State's 1927 yearbook.
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Reblog if these sorts of accidents are perfectly avoidable and need not ever happen again. From Nebelspalter, 1930.
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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 Count of Nine, by A. A. Fair:
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Bertha Cool twisted her face into a fatuous smile; a sweetly synthetic grin that was as foreign to her as a postage stamp on a dollar bill.
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"Try hanging around him," I told her, "and you'll learn about the facts of life."
"I know the facts of life," Bertha said.
"You'll learn ramifications, variations."
"I've been ramified, verified, and mutated," she said.
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Bertha kept blinking her eyes at me as though she was biting the information off in chunks with her eyelids so as to help her brain digest it. [I think this may be a more elaborate version of a similar bit that we saw ESG (aka Fair) use in the Perry Mason oeuvre.]
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Q: What’s the most vainglorious way to collect carnival-themed postage?
A: With pomp and circus stamps.
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From Northern Illinois' 1902 yearbook.
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"Found the work of Professor Oddfellow recently and I am just amazed by every part of it." —Vitor Augusto, over on Tumblr
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Here's a precursor to one of Penn and Teller's elaborate "Is this your card?" revelations. From Nebelspalter, 1930.
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"Let your spirit soar." From UFO Review, 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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Here's today's giant teddy bear cutting a train down the middle. From Der Bärenspiegel, 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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Reblog if you, too, never sleep, can see well in the dark, wander among the rocks and bushes all night long, and (referring to the chapter number here) are in financial ruin. From The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum, 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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This professor cherished all his pupas. From Black Hawk's 1970 yearbook.
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In our experience, not only does a snail chariot move slowly, but the wheels tend to spin in the trail of slime. From Nebelspalter, 1891.
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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 North Carolina's 1937 yearbook.
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Walking the turtle. From Le Journal Amusant, 1905.
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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 Kladderadatsch, 1933.
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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 Judge's Library, 1908.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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| * There is a vast world of reality into which science can no more enter than an elf can be Santa Claus. We regret to observe that rather than face it, and confess its inability to measure it, science turns its back upon it. Life is not always every-day life, and the insolvable mysteries are correlated not to formal rules but to spirit and inspiration. Are bits of wisdom liable to dwarf the subject? Indeed — and rightly! James Howell described the ingredients of a good proverb to be "sense, shortness, and salt." May Howell's cry resound through this present collection of maxims on believing in one's elf.
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From Lustige Blätter, 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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From Colorado College's Nugget yearbook of 1954.
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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 the Ole Miss yearbook of 1898.
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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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"Winter hit them like revenge" (Jerome Klinkowitz, 1991). From Washington State'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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From Fliegende Blätter, 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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A chicken burned as a witch. From L'Impartial de l'Est, 1904.
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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 Kent State's 1933 yearbook (our restoration).
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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, 1908.
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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 Journal Amusant, 1898.
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| *Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out. |
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From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1901.
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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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Santa gets a Christmas delivery from Satan. From Kladderadatsch, 1933.
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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 Journal Amusant, 1904.
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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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INSTRUCTIONS: Click to see how he might have turned out. From Washington & Lee's 1950 yearbook. 
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A detail from Le Courrier Français, 1886.
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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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Cupid apparently booby-trapped a heart with a nail, so that when the Devil stomped on it ... 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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A tiny handkerchief for a runny-nosed candle. (Our restoration; via PostcardTimeMachine).
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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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Printed collections of Forgotten Wisdom diagrams are available: Volume I from Mindful Greetings and Volumes II, III and IV from Amazon. Selected posters are also available via Zazzle. |
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Since 1990, Santa Claus has been the patron saint of industrial engineering. From Toike Oike, Dec. 1990.
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unearths some literary gems.
From The Knife Slipped, by A. A. Fair:
[From Erle Stanley Gardner's pseudonymously penned "Cool and Lam" series.]
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She...habitually kept her lips clamped in a tight line as though afraid a word might inadvertently spill out when it wasn't absolutely necessary.
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"This Bertha Cool is a card all right."
"Card, hell," I told him, "she's the whole deck."
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"What did that fan dancer have that I haven't got?"
"A fan."
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There really was a Santa Claus, until December 1961. From The Link, 1961.
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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 Fliegende Blätter, 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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From Duke's 1991 yearbook.
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Charles Dickens left out this detail: "Yule spirit comes with meatloaf." From Florida Flambeau, 1959.
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"Merry Christmas and a prosperous new year! From the little pig you took care of so well."
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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 Journal Amusant, 1898.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Kladderadatsch, 1939.
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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 Journal Amusant, 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 Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"Star of Bethlehem - no 'neon' sign." A headline from The Crusader, 1993.
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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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From Fliegende Blätter, 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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Eight years before the debut of the Mary Poppins books, here's a lady with an umbrella flying weightless. From Nebelspalter, 1926.
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Disguised as a Christmas tree. From Butler's 1973 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 squirrel was a sophomore in zoology at Tulane in 1973. We were unable to confirm that he eventually graduated.
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The war on Christmas was in full swing in the 1930s, when Santa was criticized for being imperfect. From The Business of Life by A. B. ZuTavern and A. E. Bullock and illustrated by Leo Thiele, 1936.
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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 Fliegende Blätter, 1925.From Fliegende Blätter, 1925. 02-400
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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's 1922 yearbook.
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The question mark is wrapped in parentheses. The headline reads: "Christmas 'Surprises (?)" From The [Joliet] Blazer, 1963.
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The fogs of time can overwhelm old photographs, but often the essential spirit of a scene will somehow strive to communicate itself. From North Central's yearbook of 1970. See The Collected Lost Meanings of Christmas.
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"She touched the spider's webs with her fairy wand and turned them all to gold." From the Elson Primary School Reader, Book One, 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 Lustige Blätter, 1908.
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| *Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out. |
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From Le Journal Amusant, 1904.
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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 Courrier Français, 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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| [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 Kladderadatsch, 1933.
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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 Der Orchideengarten, 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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Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing. Click each image for its source.
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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, 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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We encountered several temporal anomalies in Martinsburg, West Virginia. Both faces of the Merchants and Farmers Bank clock displayed incorrect times. The cause of this particular anomaly remains a mystery, probably because there is a city-wide rift in time/space.
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The world's most intact remaining forest happens to be self-illuminating and is contained with the pages of old yearbooks. From Olivet Nazarene's 1978 yearbook.
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"And they came from the East and worshipped The King." From Taylor's 1977 yearbook.
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"Sweet Thing in Christmas Vestments." From Punch Magazine (1866).
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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 detail from a photograph in a Philadelphia yearbook, 1968, may assist astral projection.
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Death breaks a sweat. From Volshebnyi Fonar', 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 Lustige Blätter, 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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From Dumskii Al'manakh, 1905.
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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 Journal Amusant, 1904.
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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 old Christmas night stable charm to protect horses from hags. From The Judge, 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 Kladderadatsch, 1933.
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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 Lustige Blätter, 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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From the Indiana State Teachers College handbook, 1951.
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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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Reblog if the squirrel of temptation has corrupted you with the lure of ice cream, candies, tobacco, pipes, or billards. From the University of Wisconsin's 1921 yearbook.
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The winter fairy. From Montreat's 1947 yearbook.
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From Lustige Blätter, 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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| [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 Journal Amusant, 1904.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Here's a precursor to the Grinch giving back to the tiny folk of Whoville all the presents he stole. From Kladderadatsch, 1933.
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By Jaques Callot. From Der Orchideengarten, 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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From Lustige Blätter, 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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From West Virginia University's 1930 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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From Susquehanna's 1907 yearbook.
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From Fliegende Blätter, 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 Centenary'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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| [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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Smilin' thru. From North Carolina's 1937 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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Too many skiing slips can be blamed on banana peels. From Nebelspalter, 1929. This explains weird banana-themed Christmas postcards of the past (postcard via WeirdChristmas).
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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 elephant surrounded by anthropomorphized candles is from Kabumpo in Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson, 1922.
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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 College's 1931 yearbook.
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unearths some literary gems.
From Death from a Top Hat, by Clayton Rawson:
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I awoke to see the alarm clock scowling at me reproachfully, the corners of its mouth turned down and indicating 5:40.
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Quotation marks at the corners of his straight mouth indicated a capacity for humor that softened the hard, angular set of his jaw.
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A gnome-like man with abnormally rounded shoulders entered, following a huge cigar. [File with characters being led around by their mustaches?]
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Another flash bulb flared brilliantly, putting a bright exclamation point on Tarot's sentence.
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"Here's a particularly choice collection of the English pamphlet literature. I don't know how they ever sold any of the things. Their authors had an odd journalistic habit of telling almost the whole story on the title page." [Precursing, of course, my "Two-Fold Title" gag, by some 75 years--though granted it's an obvious target for comedy.]
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The whole damned business, in his opinion, was blithering, four-starred, purple-hued nonsense. [!]
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"He put her in a trunk that a committee from the audience locked, roped, and sealed. Then, when he clapped his hands she appeared at the back of the theater and ran down the aisle with a revolver, firing blanks and shouting, 'Here I am!' They were playing Detroit one day when Judy got a little mixed and came dashing down the aisle of a theater next door where an audience of Guild subscribers were viewing O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra!"
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Gavigan, who had been in a brown study with the door closed, came out of it.
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"Every time I draw a breath this case does a lightning change act and turns up wearing a set of false whiskers and a putty nose."
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Grimm echoed somewhat less emphatically, like a second carbon, "And so do I."
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Grimm mumbled in what would have been his beard if he had had one.
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"And did you find what you were looking for, Merlini?"
"No....But what's worse, I didn't find something I wasn't looking for."
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I typed for another half hour until the phone interrupted, ringing with a nervous uneasy jangle. [The pathetic fallacy with phone rings seems to be adding up to quite a mini-theme among the authors I read!]
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The Colonel threw him a look that needed its face washed.
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From Centenary'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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Parallel worlds collide, though the times seem aligned. From Worcester Polytechnic's 1965 yearbook.
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"The sensuous eccenrtic hand." The caption doesn't say this is the hand of a sensuous eccentric person but rather that the hand itself embodies sensuous eccentricity. Therefore, the illustration is transformed into a talisman, akin to the Hand of Fatima. From New Discoveries in Palmistry by Joseph Bryant Hargett, 1901.
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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, 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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Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing. Click each image for its source.
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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 Kladderadatsch, 1933.
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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 Lustige Blätter, 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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"There wasn't even time to think." From Saint Leo's yearbook of 1972.
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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 Wesleyan College (Macon GA) yearbook of 1932.
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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 Saint Mary's 1937 yearbook.
The dust of the Milky Way figures into the next panel.
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"You set my thoughts to melody; you fill me with your beauty." From Manual and Diagrams to Accompany Metcalf's Grammars, 1901.
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From Centenary's 1929 yearbook.
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From L'Impartial de l'Est, 1904.
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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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"Moon-gazing techniques are not recommended for solar-gazing." It's news we can believe, from Clarion Call, 1969.
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From Lustige Blätter, 1908.
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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 Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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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 Terrible Problem That Is the Sea |
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From Le Journal Comique, 1909.
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`-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' ` "The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News |
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From Le Journal Amusant, 1905.
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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 L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1905.
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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 Kladderadatsch, 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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This photograph may be used for facilitating either time travel or astral projection. From Taylor's Gem yearbook, 1926.
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From Fliegende Blätter, 1847.
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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 Fliegende Blätter, 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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FIVE STARS. Craig Conley is a genius. He draws from the right sources, which give his books a certain richness and beauty. This book itself is a great source for any sorcerer or enthusiasts of the magical arts. —Joseph Ledoux
About the book:
Stage illusionists and amateur conjurors play out a mythic story, told through the deep symbolism underlying their age-old magic tricks and tools: the top hat, cups and balls, escape trunk, linking rings, white dove and rabbit, wand, handcuffs, restored ropes and papers, multiplying coins, etc. This book explores how magical props, as symbols, point beyond themselves to the larger mystery.
Magic Archetypes is a picto-poetic history of magic predating Robert Houdin's Scientific School of conjuring, recalling the ancient Mystery School traditions. Told by artists from the 700s - 1600s who were influenced by the iconography of even earlier ages, this history is an initiation into the deeper aspects of magic: the meaning in the art beyond clever trickery, the archetypes at play since time immemorial. A fascinating, enlightening companion for professional illusionists, amateur conjurors, and art lovers intrigued by the power of archetypes.
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What charms us about this particular anomaly in Vancouver, British Columbia is that is was documented at a Victorian "afternoon tea house." Apparently, visitors become automatic time travelers, with afternoon turning into 7:30 and 8:42 simultaneously. Though we weren't on location to discover the exact cause of this timely weirdness, we spotlight this photo to help hone the insights of would-be investigators of temporal anomalies. The more clocks one sees that are "on the fritz" (Fritz being the German clockmaker who first went "cuckoo"), the better attuned one will be to time warps in the wild.
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Four years before Smokey Bear first cautioned against being a firebug, there was this donkey singing from "The Firefly." From Centenary's 1940 yearbook.
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Jonathan shares his favorite bits from Morely's lovely essay "On Filling an Ink-Well":
"In the bottle, what magnificence of unpenned stuff lies cool and liquid: what fluency of essay, what fonts of song. As the bottle glints, blue as a squill or a hyacinth, blue as the meadows of Elysium or the eyes of girls loved by young poets, meseems the racing pen might almost gain upon the thoughts that are turning the bend in the road. A jolly throng, those thoughts: I can see them talking and laughing together. But when pen reaches the road's turning, the thoughts are gone far ahead: their delicate figures are silhouettes against the sky.
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"The pot of chuckling fluid where Harry Fielding dipped his pen to tell the history of a certain foundling...."
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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 cockatoo forcing a teddy bear into a lion's mouth is from Der Bärenspiegel, 1931.
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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 Northern Illinois' 1920 yearbook.
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From Fliegende Blätter, 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 the Elson Primary School Reader, Book One, 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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The reason that snake charmers can entrance with wind instruments is that wind instruments are themselves of the serpent family. From Nebelspalter, 1958.
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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, 1908.
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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 L'Assiette au Beurre, 1908.
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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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"Now, shut your eyes and let the sun and wind take care of you." From Cosmopolitan, 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 Lustige Blätter, 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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This photograph may be used as a tool for triggering an altered state of consciousness. From Lehigh's 1974 yearbook.
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So many little details here -- the rabbit witnessing a winged unicorn killing a lobster, the hermit goat holding a lantern, the cat in a hat and cape … From Fliegende Blätter, 1847.
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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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Unusual to see an artist's palette as a saucer. This musical teacup appears 20 years before Disneyland debuted its Mad Tea Party ride. From New Jersey State Teachers College's 1935 yearbook.
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"Some day, perhaps, I'll be king of the cats."
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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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Preparing to burn a tiger effigy. From Tulane's 1946 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 "The Room in the Tower," by J. Jefferson Farjeon:
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I arrived one gloomy evening at the ridiculous Rhine castle I had never quite believed. I had caught a preliminary glimpse of it, when it had still been three miles away...and I had thought, "Oh, nonsense!" Now here the nonsense was.
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I usually write in a small room, my imagination functioning best through walls that are close. Of course, that was the trouble--this room was too large! Instead of remaining near at hand my imagination was wandering all over the place, and refused to come back when it was wanted.
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From Centenary's 1929 yearbook.
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From Fliegende Blätter, 1847.
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From Mars Hill's 1979 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 Tulane's 1917 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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| This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea |
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An illustration by Samuel Bough. From Fairy Tales, Narratives and Poems, 1906.
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From Lustige Blätter, 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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From Le Courrier Français, 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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From L'Assiette au Beurre, 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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| [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 Lustige Blätter, 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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"Butch" the cat in Washington State's 1969 yearbook.
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The pseudo-3-D effect of this photo may be used to facilitate time travel. From Wesleyan College's 1928 yearbook.
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From Nursery Rhymes, illustrated by Claud Lovat Fraser, 1922.
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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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"Dance of the hours." From National-Louis's 1942 yearbook.
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From Fliegende Blätter, 1847.
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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 College of the Holy Cross'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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| [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 Johns Hopkins University's Hullabaloo yearbook of 1899.
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From Lustige Blätter, 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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From La Sagrada Biblia, 1883.
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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
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From Kladderadatsch, 1933.
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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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Whiskers on horses. From The Judge, 1901.
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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 Lustige Blätter, 1901.
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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 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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| I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought |
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"The paranormal is about paradox, not proof; about meaning, not mechanism; about myth, not math. Most of all, however, the paranormal is about the 'coincidence' or fundamental unity of mind and matter. Two of [Philip K.] Dick's favorote scholars captured this truth in two Latin sound bites: the mysterium conjunctionis, or 'mystery of conjunction,' of C. G. Jung and the coincidentia oppositorum, or 'coincidence of opposites,' of Mircea Eliade." —Jeffrey J. Kripal, footnote in Philip K. Dick's Exegesis
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From Der Bärenspiegel, 1937.
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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
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we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Centenary's 1929 yearbook.
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"Ghostly spirits float undisturbed." From Ghost Towns of the West by William Carte, 1971.
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Winter. From Nebelspalter, 1893.
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"Everyday life. Life encompasses ordinary, unordinary." From Mars Hill's 1979 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
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The shell of apathy—a mask protecting him from confusion created by the HOPE-DESPAIR paradox. From Lehigh's 1969 yearbook.
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Newspaper problem. From The [Joliet] Blazer, 1963.
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All sorts of cannons are hidden in the architecture. From Zanoza, 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 Lustige Blätter, 1914.
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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 Le Courrier Français, 1889.
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From Kladderadatsch, 1933.
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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, 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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From St. Joseph's 1937 yearbook.
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An illustration from a 1907 issue of McClure's magazine. The caption reads: "'I love her more every minute,' he informed a large boulder."
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From the 1933 Southwestern yearbook.
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A brandy ad from Fliegende Blätter, 1924.
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Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
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we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Billowing the mountain's skirt. From Nebelspalter, 1893.
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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
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Memories of college. From Mars Hill's 1979 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
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we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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You may have assumed that the story of Puss in Boots seeking his fortune at the king's palace was a fairy tale. But this headline from Kentucky Kernel, 1930, announces that "kittens seek state crown." Acquiring your own crown is easiest once you've learned How to Be Your Own Cat.
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From Bradley's 1943 yearbook.
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Needless to say, our favorite is the merry-go-round hat. From Lustige Blätter, 1908.
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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 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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From Le Journal Comique, 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 Le Journal Amusant, 1905.
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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 Kladderadatsch, 1933.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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| *Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out. |
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By Gustl Königer. From Der Orchideengarten, 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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Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing. Click each image for its source.
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From Taylor's Gem yearbook, 1931.
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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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The "bunny ears" prank happens in drawings, too -- not only in photographs. From Bloom Community College's 1966 yearbook.
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"The king poured liquid into the holes in their heads." From American Fairy Tales by Garrett Brown and illustrated by John Edward O'Keeffe, 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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From Washington College's 1931 yearbook.
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unearths some literary gems.
From "Dead Men's Letters," by Erle Stanley Gardner:
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That girl could have written a complete set of fifty volumes on the weather and it would all have strung together in perfect continuity and then when a fellow had read everything that was in the fifty volumes he'd still have to stick his head out of the window to see whether it was raining.
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From Rockford's 1914 yearbook. You can honestly get better results than in by following the non-surgical procedures in How to Be Your Own Cat.
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From Fliegende Blätter, 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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Reblog if you fall into bed one way or another. From Nebelspalter, 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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The grim reaper poses as a doctor. From Wake Forest's 1926 yearbook.
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"Oh, the horrors of a late lunch!" From Clarion Call, 1963.
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From Bradley's 1943 yearbook.
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From Lustige Blätter, 1908.
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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 Courrier Français, 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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A jack-in-the-box is triggered when a fish bites. From Le Journal Amusant, 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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From Kladderadatsch, 1933.
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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 Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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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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"And don't forget our alien friends who are always around." From UFO Review, 1992.
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She's looking into the reflecting sphere to see if she'll graduate, but the thing about reflecting spheres, as opposed to crystal balls, is that they don't factor in wildcard timelines. From Rockford's 1914 yearbook.
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From Fliegende Blätter, 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
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we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Always a joy to encounter a perfume bottle fencing with a pocket watch. From Nebelspalter, 1893.
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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
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we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Wake Forest's 1926 yearbook.
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From Lustige Blätter, 1908.
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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
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we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Walking the flamingo. From Le Journal Amusant, 1905.
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From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1907.
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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
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we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Kladderadatsch, 1933.
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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 Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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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 Muhlenberg's 1978 yearbook.
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"He depends on his Ouija board to tell him what's going to happen next." From The Oredigger, 1951. See Seance Parlor Feng Shui.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
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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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Excruciating as this text may be, reblog if you can relate. From Lenoir-Rhyne's 1968 yearbook.
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"St. John at Patmos" by Sidney Sime, in Form: A Quarterly of the Arts, 1921-22. (Via TheFugitiveSaint.)
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You might have instantly seen the weirdness here -- the earth in the mirror isn't reversed, meaning that she's looking at a parallel world in which everything is flipped. From Rockford's 1914 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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"Tomorrow when the air is different you'll forget and go away." From American University's 1970 yearbook.
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From Fliegende Blätter, 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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| [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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"Need a babysitter while you do your Christmas shopping?" From the Venango Bulletin, 1988.
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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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"What lights the stars at night?" From the Elson Primary School Reader, Book One, 1913.
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From Volshebnyi Fonar', 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 Lustige Blätter, 1908.
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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
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we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Le Journal Pour Tous, 1914.
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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 Le Journal Comique, 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 Le Journal Amusant, 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 Kladderadatsch, 1924.
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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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From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Swarthmore's 1960 yearbook.
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From Les Hommes du Jour, 1915.
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From Kladderadatsch, 1933.
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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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"Grandmother, what a big drum you have!" Sarah Bernhardt as the Big Bad Wolf impersonating Little Red Riding Hood's gradmother? From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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At first glance, we assumed the bag was a marotte papoose (and "marotte papoose" is a Googlewhack; you're welcome). But apparently this clown believes in his elf. (See How to Believe in Your Elf.) From Colorado College's 1904 yearbook.
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You've heard musicians hem and haw over how their music gets inspired. Sometimes there's good reason for their caginess. From Lumières Dans la Nuit, 1980.
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Quite the leaning tower, and we think we found the photograph that inspired it. From Park College's 1954 yearbook.
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Rare to see an x'd out halo. From Nebelspalter, 1916.
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"The boards vibrated with the intense emotion." From Catawba's 1974 yearbook.
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unearths some literary gems.
From Brief Lives, by Alan Vanneman:
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I hate rosewood. It's so rosy.
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When he was done with all four columns he started on the wainscoting. Now that was a pleasant word. Where would we be without wainscoting? I've got to fuck Dennis, he has the most fabulous wainscoting.
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Dennis, Dennis, Dennis! It's so fucking Toledo. Why not Andre Agassi, for Christ's sake? How could you not win Wimbledon when your name is Andre Agassi?
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"If you've got to ask..."
"You can't afford it. That's the law of the sea."
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She had this little spidery writing, like she could hardly bear to touch the pen to the paper.
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Reblog if you've been to Lake Flunk. From Chowan's 1911 yearbook.
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The British say "keep your hair on" (keep your cool). From Le Charivari, 1845.
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You've heard the question, "Can I get an amen?" Here's one way to get one. From Salem's 1969 yearbook.
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Here's how to fish with a skull pipe, a butterfly totem, and a pulley system. From Fliegende Blätter, 1924.
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This ghost and vestibule to the netherworld appear in the University of Maryland, College Park yearbook of 1967.
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The demon increased in statue and sparkled and glowed more brilliantly than ever. From The Master Key by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by F. Y. Cory, 1901.
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From Bradley's 1943 yearbook.
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An X for a halo? Presumably it's the tail end of the ichthys symbol ("sign of the fish") of Christianity, but we've never before encountered it this way (we have gaps!) The red "64" sticker seems like a sun that Jesus is warding off. The sun and the Son. In mathematics, 64 is known as a " centered triangular number" (symbolic here of the Holy Trinity?) Of course, there are 64 demons in the Dictionnaire Infernal, and 64 hexagrams in the I Ching, and 64 squares on a chess board, so there are many (unsatisfactory) ways to interpret the cover of Sacred Heart's 1964 yearbook.
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When this photo of a Madison, North Carolina clock tower was taken, the actual time was 1:58, not the 12:11 displayed. As constant investigators of temporal anomalies, when we encountered this shot by photographer Whe-renot, we immediately diagnosed the source of the disturbance: the bricked up "lost windows." That's because "Time stops in a cell without windows” (Olen Steinhauer, The Confession, 2010). Speaking of lost windows, consider this: “It’s nice to have a window, even if it’s bricked. I like the idea of a bricked window, because it engenders no delusion of being helped. That’s the hardest thing to accept, that no one’s going to turn the light on, and if you need the light on now, you’ve misunderstood how to see in the dark” (Brandon Keith Nobles).
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At last, an explanation for our "fluidity." From Awake magazine, 1957.
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Though one might presume that the letters spell ATHLETICS, they actually spell LITHE CATS. From Rockford's 1914 yearbook.
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"Read on! The chestnuts have not all been cracked." From Rockford's 1917 yearbook.
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From The Beacon Third Reader by James Hiram Fassett and illustrated by Charles Copeland, 1914.
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we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Le Journal Comique, 1909.
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From Le Journal Amusant, 1906.
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we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Kladderadatsch, 1933.
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From Der Orchideengarten, 1921.
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we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Rockford's 1914 yearbook.
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Take care how you proposition a snowman. From Nebelspalter, 1893.
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From the Kansas yearbook of 1933.
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From Svistok Odessa, 1905.
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we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Le Journal Comique, 1909.
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From Le Journal Amusant, 1906.
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Saint Catherine. From Le Courrier Français, 1886.
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This photograph may be used to facilitate self-hypnosis. From the North Adams State College yearbook, 1966.
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From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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Yes, planned confusion. From Clarion Call, 1963.
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From Kent State's 1916 yearbook.
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"At last he flew to the end of the world, where there was a hut and no road beyond." From Wonder Tales from Russia by Jeremiah Curtin, 1921.
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Great news -- proof that you CAN take it with you. All that's required is the right grip. From North Central's 1944 yearbook.
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From Der Bildermann, 1916.
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Reblog if you use sheer willpower and/or the mysteries of psychokinesis to win at billiards. From Lees-McRae's 1964 yearbook.
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At first glance, we thought this was a centaur on the telephone. From the Wyoming yearbook of 1930.
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What do you see in this picture? If you see a bird (with a white beak and a mustache-like wattle) it means that you are meant to sing your song of life and to remove any foreign substances from your feathers. If you see a human figure (with no face but eyes, and blond braids, sitting in one of those egg-like chairs from the 60s), it means you like to show off your personal style and are intrigued by those weird egg-like chairs from the 60s. Our illustration is from Lustige Blätter, 1908.
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From Le Journal Amusant, 1898.
Jonathan notes: "I'm guessing it's a sort of sendup of the 'bicycle craze,' but it's funny how some of the items pictured probably anticipate backyard children's vehicles and amusement-park cars of the late 20th c."
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From Kladderadatsch, 1933.
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From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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From Le Journal Amusant, 1906.
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we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"Gateway to Hell" is the caption to the photo on the right. As we've tirelessly reported, college yearbooks are profoundly occult objects. From William and Mary's yearbook of 1993. See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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A friend visiting England spotted a physical manifestation of branching parallel universes in the Churchill War Rooms. Both doors were locked, so he remained in this timeline.
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Ah, the classic circling of the obvious anomaly, a practice as old as anomalies themselves. From Lumières Dans la Nuit, 1980.
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unearths some literary gems.
From "Death in December," by Victor Gunn:
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He met both the Chartons--Gerry, cheery, frank and likeable; and Ronnie, supercilious and full of psycho-this and psycho-that.
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"He's got no more sense of humour than a carrot."
[When I shared this quote with HC-E, she opined that carrots had a better sense of humor than some vegetables, and I had to agree. We both felt, for instance, that carrots had a better sense of humor than turnips (but not so strong a sense of humor as broccoli).]
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He went loping down the big staircase not unlike a great shaggy bear...with his hair pointing to all points of the compass.
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[A twist on the Wodehousian "phonus balonus."]
"If you'll cease talking hokus bolonus...."
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It's an outright lie that art, religion, theatre, and sports aren't as heavy as science. From North Central's 1944 yearbook.
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From Rockford's 1946 yearbook.
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"Scattered on the Earth." From West Georgia's 1979 yearbook.
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"Night of the fox." From Spellbound, 1976. (Courtesy of Archive.org.)
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Basketball used to be more suspenseful. From Colorado College's 1934 yearbook.
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Early attempts to learn How to Be Your Own Cat had mixed results. We've come a long way. From Lustige Blätter, 1908.
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"Take your own time, it's safest. … Only, mind about the edge, and whatever you do, let no stones roll over." Parts of a page from Michael's Crag by Grant Allen, 1893.
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From Le Journal Amusant, 1906.
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From Judge's Library, 1903.
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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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"Major effort needed today" -- a headline from The McGill Daily, 1962.
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"He found himself in a nest of huge size, with the owl prophet staring at him with big, yellow eyes." From Tiny Red Squirrel by James Douglas Williams, 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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Here's a precursor to Durak Aprel, the archipelago depicted in the birthmark on Mikhail Gorbachev's head. From Fliegende Blätter, 1924.
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From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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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 angels of good coffee. From Nebelspalter, 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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We've had all our best workouts in a phantom gymnasium. From Lebanon Valley'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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"In darkness." From the University of Nebraska at Omaha's 1970 yearbook.
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"Winter cold brings beards and mustaches to faces": a headline from Soutiana, 1977.
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From Lustige Blätter, 1908.
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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 Journal Amusant, 1904.
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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 L'Assiette au Beurre, 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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From Kladderadatsch, 1933.
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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 The Comic Magazine, 1832.
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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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Compressed time: "A year's day-long has come to rest." This photograph's perspective is so foreshortened as to approach being superflat. It's somewhat cryptic, but ghostly car headlights are backing away from a wall on Lover's Lane in a long exposure. From Worcester's yearbook of 1963.
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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 Der Orchideengarten, 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 Ellendale yearbook of 1915.
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Here's a precursor to Hellboy. From Nebelspalter, 1923.
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An incredibly rare twist on the classic trope! Hear all evil, say all evil, see all evil. From Swarthmore's 1979 yearbook.
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Reblog if you, too, sing weird love songs to mermaids to rock their waves. From The Wonderful Fairies of the Sun by Ernest Vincent Wright and illustrated by Cora M. Norman, 1896.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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A rival lion mascot is transformed into a monkey. From Tulane's 1921 yearbook.
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From Fliegende Blätter, 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 Susquehanna's 2007 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, 1908.
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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 Journal Amusant, 1904.
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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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INSTRUCTIONS: Click to wipe off the make-up. From The Judge, 1921. 
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From Kladderadatsch, 1933.
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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 is easily the biggest iron maiden we've seen. From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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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 Davidson's 1935 yearbook.
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The Snow Man and Jack Frost are inseparable partners. From the Elson Primary School Reader, Book One, 1913.
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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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Nuggets! From Colorado College's 1920 yearbook.
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Here's a 1967 precursor to the "one weird trick" advertising meme. It's an ad for CliffsNotes literary study guides.
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"Individuality marks leisure moments." As of this posting, the phrase remains a Googlewhack. From York College of Pennsylvania's 1975 yearbook.
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From Der Bärenspiegel, 1937.
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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 Man with the Sack," by Margery Allingham:
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A bewildered-looking bronze lady, clad in a pink marble nightgown, was seated upon a gilt ormolu log, one end of which had been replaced by a blue and white enamel clock face.
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Reblog if you've come home to a dog in your bed. From Fliegende Blätter, 1847.
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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 king begs pardon. From Europa's Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John Batten, 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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"Natural beauty replaced by many extremes." From Clarion Call, 1963.
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From the Kansas yearbook of 1933.
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| *Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out. |
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From Lustige Blätter, 1908.
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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 Terrible Problem That Is the Sea |
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From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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`-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' ` "The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News |
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| [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 Adskaia Poctha, 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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Encountering evil at the library. ( Here's the book with the wicked centerfold she's gasping at.) From Anderson's 1985 yearbook.
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From The George Washington Ghost, 1928.
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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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Your Own Self-Assembling Divination Deck
by Craig Conley, a.k.a. Prof. Oddfellow
One of the best-kept secrets of cartomancy is that anyone may have an eerily personalized, fully illustrated deck of illuminating archetypal imagery and divinatory statements that virtually assembles itself. Even non-artists, non-writers, and the prophetically-challenged are eligible. The key is a certain sort of public domain book, technically on an unrelated topic and therefore the perfect preserver of the secret. With a little old-school cutting and pasting onto index cards (the preferred method) or some higher-tech scanning for glossy print-on-demand decks, a one-of-a-kind soothsaying system will manifest before your eyes as if you were a genie granting your own wish.
Here is the innermost chamber of the heart of the secret: we find our crucial material in old books of children's theatrical productions, full of time-honored, archetypal characters as well as illustrations (provided as guidance for costuming) and pithily-worded dialogue that, taken out of context, works rather amazingly as predictive aphorisms. Such books are freely available in the archives of virtual libraries, though a more exciting and providential method is to discover one in an antiquarian shop's dramaturgical corner.
To give a sense of the sorts of material one may pull from, consider these evocative casts of characters found in The Magic Sea Shell and Other Plays by John Farrar, 1923. One may choose a particular character from one play and others from separate plays, as certain names and imagery spark intrigue. It's an intuitive process that is completely natural and effortless. When a particular figure calls to you, you'll most certainly notice it.
The Spirit of the Shrine
A Child of Pan
The Mikumwess, an Indian Elf
The Spirit of Dreams
The Spirit of the Wind
The Spirit of the Forest
The Spirit of Mischief
The Spirit of Sport
The Spirit of Youth
The Moon
The Sun
The Stars
The Clouds
The Winds
The Rain
Light
Fire
The Mountains
The Foothills
The Lily
The Pearl
Story-Book
Study-Book
The Old Man of the Sea
The Mermaid
The Sailor Boy
The Octopus
The Shark
Icicle
Old Man February
Lady Fair
Leap Year Baby
Cupid
Cavalier
Toadstool
Poison Ivy
Jack-in-the-Pulpit
Queen Wild Rose
Trumpet Flowers
A Man
Hate
Pain
Lust
Sin
Love
Sorrow
Hope
Despair
Death
Terror
Dead Dreams
Shadow of the Past
Will-o'-the-Wisp
The Shadow of a Man
The Shadow of a Woman
The Soul of a Child
The Shadow of a Dream
Elves of the Moonlight
Elves of the Starlight
The Wind
The Fountain
The Grass
The Dew
The Firefly
The Cricket
The Moth
The Beetle
The Rose
The August Lily
Sunflower
Moonflower
Johnny-Jump-Up
A Witch, Representing Mortal Sin
The Spirit of Evil
The Spirit of Good
A Woodcutter, Ignorance
A Little Boy and Girl, Representing Innocence
Lob and Hob, Ministers of Evil
A Demon in the Form of an Ape: the Witch's Familiar
An Owl, a Cock, and a Cat: Imps
The construction of a deck will involve snipping the character's name, illustration, and a fragment of dialogue that seems to speak a universal truth or offers either an affirmation or a timely warning.Pictured here is the archetype of Wealth, from Home Plays by Cecil Henry Bullivant, 1911. He's not quite as psychedelic as he might appear at a glance, for the "LSD" actually refers to Britain's pre-decimal monetary values of "pounds, shillings, pence," from the Latin "librae, solidi, denarii." He comes complete with a quatrain of dialogue that identifies his influence: "My name is Wealth. My power untold, for I am made of glittering gold. And as I go upon my way, with money-bags the world I sway."
As other examples of pairing dialogue to characters, the play featuring Dead Dreams has them say: "Let us in. We freeze. Why have you barred us out? Our wings are torn, and our long hair drops constantly with rain." Such a statement could encourage the querent to recall an aspiration that was somehow forgotten or otherwise abandoned along the way. The character Hope offers a very positive promise: "Fear not. Be comforted. Peace keep thy soul. Despair and Grief can touch thee never more." The character Love has this heartening message: "Have courage. Death is swallowed up in me." The character Evil counsels to burn away that which offends you: "Let fire have its way. Strew it around. … Let it rage and roar. Sow its red seeds about, and let them spring and blossom crimson to the crimson moon."
Consider this sample card featuring The Night Moth, from the St. Nicholas Book of Plays and Operettas, 1905. The moth fairy says that all through the summer she curled within the petals of a lily, and when the lily finally withered, she slipped away like dew. This could serve as a reminder to take advantage of and enjoy resources while they last, then move on when an inevitable cycle comes to fruition.
Dialogue is one thing, but one may also include interesting stage directions from a script. Here are some examples from The White Christmas and Other Merry Christmas Plays by Walter Ben Hare, 1917: "Lights all on full." "Low rumbles of thunder are heard." "Ghost exits unseen." "The cheers are given." "Soft chimes. As these chimes die away in the distance a concealed choir is heard singing."
Pictured here is the Spirit of Dreams (The Magic Sea Shell and Other Plays), who blows and tosses a large bubble. As a fortune telling card, she might encourage one to "sleep on it" and make a decision the next day. Her line, "Bubble! Bubble! Whither flying?" might direct one to pay attention to "which way the wind blows" in the sense of discovering information about a situation before taking action.
Rather than ask a particular question, the preferred way to use this sort of divination system is to first think of a short title for the personal drama in which you find yourself. There’s no incorrect way to do this — simply attempt to encompass your situation in two to four words. “What Happens in Vegas” might be an appropriate title for concerns about an upcoming vacation to Nevada. “A Question of Romance” might serve if you are worried about a love interest. “The Agreement” might be a title involving a commitment or a contract. “All Through the House" might denominate a domestic issue. “Hurry Up and Wait” might address a particular limbo. “What Goes Around” might be an appropriate title for a reading intended to identify what’s about to come around. “Cat and Mouse” might be appropriate for thwarting an opponent. “The Promotion” might name a work-related issue. For a more general reading, try a broader title like “That’s Life” or “The Way of the World.” Once you have settled on a title, draw cards to initiate your character set and script. Every reading becomes a unique script to shed light upon one’s particular situation. That’s because “Theatre reveals what is behind so-called reality” ( The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Directing, 2013) and also because a text “exists only as an event that reveals the reader’s self” (James Machor and Philip Goldstein, “Theoretical Accounts of Reception,” in Reception Study, 2001). A spread of cards with snippets of conversation forms its own miniature script. How could a collaged dialogue make sense? “A text can make sense and someone can make sense of a text. If a text which at first did not make sense comes to make sense, it is because someone has made sense of it” (Jonathan Culler, The Pursuit of Signs, 1981). “We make sense of a text by relating it to the context of our knowledge, emotions, and experience. But since such contexts will be different for particular readers, so interpretations will vary also” (Peter Verdonk, Stylistics, 2002). Deconstructionism “holds that a reader is free to find meaning in a text that the writer did not intend and — in making the interpreter a partner in the creation of copy — seeks to replace the stability of logic with the fluidity of paradox” (William Saffire, No Uncertain Terms, 2004). The composition of the cast of characters may offer important insights into the nature of your reading. For example, is there a “cold” tone to the scene with figures like Jack Frost, Santa, or a tin soldier? Are several grandparents and other elders present, indicating wisdom or authority? Is there a preponderance of mothers and nursemaids to suggest nurturance? Have mysterious or frightful spirits and ghosts made themselves known? Do children predominate, suggesting naivety or new beginnings? Are several Irishmen present, traditionally associated with luck? Musicians may appear, suggesting the importance of timing and harmony. Clowns might also congregate, to lighten the tone. Characters might hold walking sticks or crutches, indicating sources of support. If any carry umbrellas, they're prepared for inclemency. Look also at the directions characters face. Are most or all facing left, or right, or forward? Such alignments may be meaningful to your situation.
Old books of theatrical entertainments for children (like Let's Pretend: A Book of Children's Plays by Lindsey Barbee, 1917) are treasure troves of quintessential personae who spring from our deepest wells of folk wisdom. They are preserved in a liminal space, a threshold of time. Over long centuries they have continued to surface in retellings and re-imaginings of humanity's profoundest narratives. There is no one "right" or "wrong" combination of such figures. We conjure characters from old plays as portentous ghosts of holy days past, in the grand tradition of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. This system brings to life forgotten characters from plays that may no longer be performed on stage, and their scripts are newly invigorated via a process of natural selection as we combine disparate dialogues into literally cutting-edge creations. Though we call these characters ghosts, they are more accurately archetypes, which are “neither entirely natural nor super-natural” (Derek Steinberg, Consciousness Reconnected, 2006). Simply put, “An archetype is an awareness of what is yet unknown” (Cynthia Ashperger, The Rhythm of Space and the Sound of Time, 2008). To see us out, here's a character from The White Christmas and Other Merry Christmas Plays. He says, "For I'm the Wishing Man. I have wishbones on my fingers, I have myst'ry in my eyes, my clothes are trimmed with horseshoes, and they're stained with magic dyes. My pocket's full of rabbits' feet, and clover leaves and charms; for luck I've got a big black cat all tattooed on my arms." Good luck!
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From Mars Hill's 1972 yearbook.
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It's a question some of us are still asking: "Will civilization end before the year 2000?" From UFO Review, 1985.
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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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"If you were a dime, you might also have a dream of glory." From The Link, 1956.
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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 Fliegende Blätter, 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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You've heard that beauty is its own excuse for being, but here's the actual mathematics of it. From Lambuth's 1959 yearbook.
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From Le Journal Pour Tous, 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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From Le Courrier Français, 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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| *Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out. |
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From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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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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You've heard that the world sits upon the shell of a cosmic turtle, but actually it rests next to a tiger. From Colorado College'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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| [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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"Right past me where I stood, rigid with horror, looking through those bars, fell a white-robed figure--down, down into the fiery pit, a hundred feet below." An illustration by J. C. Coll for Collier's, 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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From the State College of Washington's yearbook of 1912.
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From Fliegende Blätter, 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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| [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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Reblog if a monkey has gotten you out of a sticky situation. From L'Impartial de l'Est, 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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From the Wyoming yearbook of 1930.
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Old Man Winter wields a bare tree as he walks the bears. From El Globo, 1844. Courtesy of La Biblioteca Universitaria de Sevilla.
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| *Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out. |
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From Lustige Blätter, 1908.
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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 Journal Amusant, 1891.
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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 L'Assiette au Beurre, 1906.
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| *Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out. |
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From Kladderadatsch, 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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Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing. Click each image for its source.
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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 Journal Amusant, 1905.
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`-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' ` "The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News |
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From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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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 Johns Hopkins University's Hullabaloo yearbook of 1892.
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