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Thanks to Hungarian recording artist 0B1R for letting us know that our haunted clockwork album Stroke of Midnight "is so awesome! Maybe I was searching for this kind of music all my life."
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Here's a precursor to the Swan Hotel at Disney World. From Ohio State University's College of Medicine's 1952 yearbook.
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The Old Year goes out and the New Year comes in with the snow. From St. Nicholas, 1915.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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A book as a flying horse. From Otterbein's 1909 yearbook.
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May the light, ardor, and purity of the highest order of the ninefold celestial hierarchy favor you today. From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Ohio Wesleyan's 1929 yearbook.
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You know it's your time to go with the earth itself vomits crazed wolves at you. See caption. From Colliers, 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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From the University of Arkansas' 1941 yearbook.
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From Phil May's Illustrated Winter Annual, 1894.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Purple Parrot, 1935.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Father Time as a wrangler, taking away an old year that has already barked enough. From Wake Forest's 1925 yearbook.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Le Chariviari, 1884.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Indiana University's 1914 yearbook.
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Father Time spills some red ink. From the Duluth Herald, 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 the University of Washington's 1971 yearbook.
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From Purdue University's 1921 yearbook.
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From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals's Our Dumb Animals, 1959.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Here's a precursor to Sadako crawling out of a TV screen in the Ring series. From The New Communicators by Dorothy Forbes, 1978.
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Thanks to Bruce Earl, who wrote, "I love this! Every time I watch I notice something new. Don’t think I’ve ever read a more original and philosophically ambitious lyric! I’ve given up trying to find adequate words. More please."
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From Purple Parrot, 1932.
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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 Otterbein's 1909 yearbook.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Ohio State's 1921 yearbook.
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From the University of Arkansas' 1941 yearbook.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From The Parrot's American Home, 1945.
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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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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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unearths some literary gems.
***I glanced across the table at a young Englishwoman....To sum her up in a general way, she looked as if she did not write poetry.***I had deliberately concluded I would do no sightseeing. Not that I objected to seeing a sight, now and then, but the sight would have to put itself in my way, and the conditions would have to be such that I should prefer to go through the sight rather than around it.Indeed, it was largely the word sightseeing that I took exception to. Such a very defective verb! Who would voluntarily put herself in a position to say, “I sightsaw the National Gallery yesterday,” or “I have sightseen the whole City,” and then have no proper parts of speech to say it with?[...]And yet, I wanted to go to the Tower, the Bank, and the Charter-house. I wanted to go to Westminster Abbey and Saint Paul’s and the National Gallery. But I did not want to go for the first time. I wanted to revisit these places, and how could I do that when I had never yet visited them?***Apparently, whoever was in charge had simply provided all there was in the world of everything; and a guest had merely to mention a preference for anything edible, and it was immediately served to him.The Londoners of course, being quite unaware what they wanted to eat, vaguely suggested one thing or another at random; and the vague waiters, apparently knowing the game, brought them something quite different. These viands the Londoners consumed with satisfaction; but in what was unmistakably a crass ignorance of what they were eating.All this fascinated me so that I greatly desired to try experiments, such as sprinkling their food thickly with red pepper or putting sugar in their wine. I have not the slightest doubt that they would have calmly continued their repast, without the slightest suspicion of anything wrong.***The dining-room was another revelation. One corner was occupied by a huge, high-backed angle-shaped seat of carved wood, which carried with it the atmosphere of a ruined cathedral or a Hofbrauhaus.***Huge gold earrings and strings of clinking beads were worn with a confection of bright-colored satin and cotton lace, which would have been conspicuous in the front row of a comic opera chorus.***I had hoped that our route might cause us to pass through Upper Tooting, as, next to Stratford, this was to me the most interesting name in my little red book. I know not why, but Upper Tooting has always possessed for me a strange fascination and, though it sounds merely like the high notes of a French horn, yet my intuition tells me that it is full of deep and absorbing interest.***As we had neither of us ever been in Stratford before, we left the train at the station and paced the little town with an anticipation that was like a blank page, to be written on by whatever might happen next.***We agreed that as the path across the field had been here ever since Shakespeare trod it, and as it would in all probability remain for some time in the future, the mere coincidence that we were traversing it at this particular moment was nothing to be thrilled about.***Meeting friends at a London station is always exciting. To begin with, they are never there.***“It is absurd for one to be such a slave to one’s luggage. Somebody ought to invent a trunk with legs and intelligence, that would run after us,—instead of our running after it!”[Cf. JC-E: “Why can’t furniture just move itself?” Sippy would say. “I mean, these pieces all have legs, right? I think that anything that calls itself a ‘dresser’ ought to be able to get dressed and out of the house without my help.”]***A friend of mine who lives in Chelsea proudly assured me that he could throw a stone from his garden into Carlyle’s! The point of his remark seemed to be not his superior marksmanship, but the proximity to the garden of a great man. Now, were I of the stone-throwing sex, there is many a dead hero at whose garden I should aim before I turned toward Carlyle’s. But of course this was because my friend lived in Chelsea. Therefore the non-resident, not being confined to a locality, can throw imaginary stones into any one’s garden.***While we were doing Early Restaurants Miss Anna said, “We must take in Crosby Place.”This pleased me hugely, for I remembered how Gloucester, in Richard the Third was everlastingly repairing to Crosby Place, and I desired to know what was the attraction.I found it interesting, but, lacking Gloucester, I shall not repair there often. To be sure, it is a magnificent house, Gothic, Perpendicular, and all that; the hangings and appointments are, probably, much as they used to be, but after all, I do not care greatly for eating among Emotions.***And yet, after all, my heart goes back with fondest memories to Euston. Not the crowd, not even the atmosphere, but a mysterious influence which emanates from those wonderful columns. Not only the sight of them as you approach from London, but the queer, almost uncanny way in which they permeate the whole place. They follow you through the station and into the train, and not for many miles can you get out from under the presence of those perfect shapes.***All was usual and orthodox. Everybody listened politely to everybody’s else chatter, and, apparently unhearing, answered at random, and quite often wrongly.****The headgear of these same ladies can be called nothing less than alarming. [That line is the basis for one of the illustrations, too.]During the summer of which I write, it was the whim to wear huge shapes of the mushroom or butter-bowl variety. These shapes, instead of being decorated with flowers or feathers, bore skilfully contrived fruits, that looked so like real ones I was often tempted to pluck them. Cherries and grapes were not so entirely novel, but peaches, pears, and in one instance a banana, seemed, at least, mildly ludicrous. I was rejoiced to learn that these fruits, being stuffed with cotton-wool, were not so weighty as they appeared; but they were indeed bulky, and crowded on to the hat in such quantities that it seemed more sensible to turn the butter-bowl the other side up to hold them.***The first humorous story I heard in London was of the man who, returning from a festal function, inquired of the policeman, “Is this Piccadilly Circus, or is it Tuesday?” That story seems to me the epitome of London humor, and also a complete description of Piccadilly Circus.***[Also illustrated, and notable mostly because teddy bears had only been around for about 5 years when this book was published.]I recently saw in one of our finest Fifth Avenue restaurants a most attractive young woman, who came in accompanied by a well-set-up, and moreover an exceedingly sensible looking, young man.With absolute savoir faire, and no trace of self-consciousness, the girl carried in her arm a large brown “Teddy bear.”The couple sat at a table and ordered some luncheon, and the bear was also given a seat, a napkin was tucked about his neck, and a plate placed before him. The girl’s face was sweet and refined; the man’s face was intelligent and dignified, and the bear’s face was coy and alluring. There was no attempt to attract attention, and, luncheon over, the young woman, who was at least twenty years old, tucked her pet under her arm, and they walked calmly out.***With a farewell nod to the northeast lion (which is my favorite of the four), I would jump into a hansom and jog over to the British Museum.[These are the Trafalgar Square lions. Of course one has to have a favorite!]***As I bounced happily along, I would note many landmarks of historic interest. Some of these were real, and others made up by myself on the spur of the moment, to fit a passing thought.***“I was found dead in my bed this morning.” [Check out the illustration!]***But to return to my going ons (which must by no means be confounded with goings-on). ["Going ons" refers to when a party guest is "going on" to another party.]***The disposition of the emptied hamper [which had contained a "put-up luncheon" for a train ride] was simply to restore it to its place under the seat, and leave it there. Apparently it had the instincts of a homing pigeon.***Leaving Dover was like backing away from a picture post-card.***The French capital is paved with cabs, and of such a cheapness of fare that I soon discovered it was more economical to stay in them than to get out.***With what I fancied a French shrug of my shoulders, I mispronounced a French phrase of acquiescence, and declared myself ready to go.***The “Cabaret du Neant” is supposed to be a fearsome place, where guests sit around coffins and see ghosts. But so like substantial tables were the coffins, and so sociable and human the ghosts, that awe gave place to amusement.***[Re. the Mona Lisa]By a queer correlation of ideas, my mind reverted to the Laughing Cavalier, and I wondered if these two were smiling at the same thought.***[Bonus 1: "flapping frilliness"][Bonus 2: Wells quotes from this poem, which is new to me and made me smile: https://www.bartleby.com/270/1/276.html ]
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From the University of Mississippis 1905 yearbook.
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"The passing year was erratic and topsy turvy." From the Duluth Herald, 1914.
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"The nightmens' dance." From Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn's 1920 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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"Do you remember?" From Wabash College's 1938 yearbook.
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"But who is the Foe? Who is the Friend? What value is there to life when the time is out of joing?" From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1947.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing. Click each image for its source.
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Red sky at night. From Eastern Kentucky's 1992 yearbook.
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Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"There's a satisfaction, after all, in being very young." From Scribner's, 1877.
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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 Western Michigan's 1965 yearbook.
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From Lighted Pathway, 1952.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Ohio Wesleyan's 1929 yearbook.
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An alien autopsy in Awareness, 1995.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From the University of Arkansas' 1941 yearbook.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Earlham's 1906 yearbook.
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What happens when graduation ceremonies are held at a stadium. From Purple Parrot, 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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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Party central. From Texas Wesleyan's 1970 yearbook.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Pluck and Luck Complete Stories of Adventure, 1902.
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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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This is a Googlewhack as of this posting: "We hear a tuneful murmur, dawn divine, beyond where matchlocks clank your passing knells." From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1939.
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Day after day, it's always 6:24 a.m./p.m. From Current Sauce, 1970.
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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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A skeleton strung onto an electrical wire. From Otterbein's 1904 yearbook.
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From Poets' Wit and Humor by W. H. Wills and illustrated by Charles Bennett and George H. Thomas, 1860.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Colorado State's 1958 yearbook.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Ohio Wesleyan's 1929 yearbook.
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By F. G. Cooper. From Colliers, 1916.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From the University of Arkansas' 1944 yearbook.
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From Phil May's Illustrated Winter Annual, 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 entire page, a question mark. From Earlham's 1906 yearbook.
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From Purple Parrot, 1930.
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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 Ohio State University's College of Medicine's 1955 yearbook.
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Belzhazzar. From Chatterbox, 1901.
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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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"The elephant is a tender lover." From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1965.
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From Peace Institute's 1918 yearbook.
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You've heard of "big fish stories," but they've actually made it into newspapers. From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1903.
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From The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1919.
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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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The endpapers from Southern Methodist's 1943 yearbook.
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May no gas clouds occlude you today. From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Memphis State's 1964 yearbook.
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"Fish-hawk nest on the sand-dunes, Hog Island." From Harper's, 1879.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Ohio Wesleyan's 1929 yearbook.
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From Lighted Pathway, 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 Earlham's 1959 yearbook.
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You may have heard that Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water, but it was actually milk and cookies. From The Pixie in the House by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by Clara Powers Wilson, 1915.
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From Lasell Junior College's 1967 yearbook.
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From Purple Parrot, 1943.
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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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A pitchfork-wielding angel. From Mars Hill's 1955 yearbook.
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unearths some literary gems.
From The Emily Emmins Papers, by Carolyn Wells:
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And so, as I, Emily Emmins, spinster, have the full courage of my own convictions, I found myself one crisp April morning walking happily along the lower portion of Broadway. Impulse urged me on toward the Battery, but, as often happens, my impulse was side-tracked. And all because of a woman’s smiling face. I was passing the offices of the various steamship companies, and I saw, coming down the steps of one of them, a young woman whose countenance was positively glorified with joy. I couldn’t resist a second glance at her, and I saw that both her hands were filled with circulars and booklets.
It required no clairvoyance to understand the situation; she had just bought her first ticket to Europe, and it was the glorious achievement of a lifelong desire. I knew, as well as if she had told me, how she had planned and economized for it, and probably studied all sorts of text-books that she might properly enjoy her trip, and make it an education as well as a pleasure. And as I looked at the gay-colored pamphlets she clutched, I was moved to go in and acquire a few for myself.
With Emily Emmins, to incline is to proceed; so I stepped blithely into the big light office and requested booklets. They were bestowed on me in large numbers, the affable clerk was most polite, and,—well, I’m sure I don’t know how it happened, but the first thing I knew I was paying a deposit on my return ticket to Liverpool.
I may as well confess, at the outset, that I am of a chameleonic nature. I not only take color from my surroundings, but reflect manners and customs as accurately and easily as a mirror. And so, in that great, business-like office, with its maps and charts and time-tables and steamer plans, the only possible thing to do seemed to be to buy my ticket, and I did so.
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Another letter left me hesitating as to whether my proposed journey was advisable after all. This letter was from the Elsinore Travel Bureau, and explained how, by the purchase of a new-fangled stereoscope and innumerable sets of “views,” one could get far more satisfaction out of a European trip by staying at home than by going abroad. “So real are the scenes,” the circular assured me, “that one involuntarily stretches out a hand to grasp what isn’t there.” Surely, realism need go no farther than that; yet some over-exacting people might demand that the grasped-for thing should be there.
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But, being amiable, I smiled pleasantly on all, agreed with each adviser, and held my peace. For, to me, preliminaries mattered little, and I knew that as soon as I was fairly at sea, or at least beyond the three-mile limit, I could make my own plans, and carry them out without let or hindrance.
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The only points that seemed to be impressed on my mind were that, in London parlance, “Thank you” invariably means either “Yes” or “No” (nobody seemed quite sure which), and that in England one must always call a telephone a lift.
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Suddenly it occurred to me that I was receiving “first impressions.” How I hated the term! Every one I knew, who had ever crossed the ocean before I did, had said to me, “And you’ve never been over before? Oh, how I envy you your first impressions!”
As I realized that about seventy-nine people were even then consumed with a burning envy of these first impressions of mine, I somehow felt it incumbent upon me to justify their attitude by achieving the most intensely enviable impressions extant.
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[I recommend the illustration called "Portrait of Jane Sterling" (which the text in proximity to it will explain).]
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Although beatifically serene and abnormally good-natured, I felt an utter aversion to exertion of any kind, mental, moral, or physical. Even the thought of studying my fellow-travellers seemed a task too arduous to contemplate.
And so I sat there all the morning and not a fellow-traveller was studied.
“This won’t do,” I said to myself, severely, after luncheon. “Here you are, not a hint of sea-sickness, the day is perfect, you know how to adjust your rug, and all conditions are favorable. You must study your fellow-travellers.”
But the afternoon showed little improvement on the morning. As a result of desperate effort, I scrutinized one lady and decided to call her the Lady with the Green Bag.
It wasn’t a very clever characterization, but it was, at least, founded on fact.
Another I conscientiously contemplated, and finally dubbed her the Lady Who Isn’t an Actress. This was rather a negative description, but I based it on the neatness of her vanity-bag and the carelessness of her belt, and I am sure it was true.
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“Now listen, Miss Emmins. I think you’re delightful, and I’m going to help you all I can by not advising you.
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But the word green, as we say it in our haste, is utterly inadequate to apply to the color of the English landscape. Though of varying shades, it is always green to the nth power; it is a saturated solution of green; it is a green that sinks into the eye with a sensation of indelibility.
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She described the home he had just built for her in Chicago, and it seemed to be a sort of Liberal Arts Building set in the last scene of a comic opera.
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“What London do you want to use?” asked Mr. Travers, interestedly. “You know there are many Londons for the entertainment of visitors. We can give you the Baedeker London, or Dickens’s London, or Stevenson’s London, or Bernard Shaw’s London, or Whistler’s London——”
“Or our own W. D. Howells’s London,” I finished, as he paused in his catalogue.
“I think,” I went on, “the London I want is a composite affair, and I shall compile it as I go along. You know Browning says ‘The world is made for each of us,’ and so I think there’s a London made for each of us, and we have only to pick it out from among the myriad others.”
“That’s quite true,” said Mrs. Travers. “You’ll be using, do you see, many bits of those Londons mentioned, but combining them in such a way as to make an individual London all your own.”
The prospect delighted me, and I mentally resolved to build up such a London as never was on land or sea.
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“What waggery!” observed Mrs. Travers, in a calm, unamused tone, and I suddenly realized that I was in the midst of an English sense of humor.
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We discussed the English tendency to elide letters or syllables from their proper names, falling back on the time-worn example of the American who complained that Englishmen spell a name B-e-a-u-c-h-a-m-p and pronounce it Chumley.
“But it’s better for an American,” said Mr. Travers, “to pronounce a name as it is spelled than to elide at his own sweet will. I met a Chicagoan last summer, who said he intended to run out to Win’c’s’le.”
“What did he mean?” I asked, in my ignorance.
“Windsor Castle,” replied Mr. Travers, gravely.
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In all my life, my waking hours had never reached three o’clock A.M., from either direction, and when, on the first morning after my arrival in London, I was awakened at that hour by a gently intrusive daybreak, I felt as if I had received a personal and intentional affront.
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At about seven o’clock the omnibuses began to ply. I had never known before what was indicated by the verb to ply. But I saw at once that it is the only word that properly expresses the peculiar gait of an omnibus, which is a cross between a rolling lurch and a lumbering wobble. Fascination is a mild term for the effect these things had on me.
One omnibus might not so enthrall me. I don’t know; I have never seen one omnibus alone. But the procession of them along Piccadilly is the one thing on earth of which I cannot conceive myself becoming tired.
Their color, form, motion, and sound all partake of the primeval, and their continuity of effect is eternal.
My Baedeker tells me that the first omnibuses plying in London were “much heavier and clumsier than those now in use.” But of course this is a mistake, for they couldn’t have been.
I have heard that tucked away among the gay-colored advertisements that are patchworked all over these moving Mammoth Caves are small and neatly-lettered signs designating destinations. I do not know this. I have never been able to find them. But it doesn’t matter. To get to Hampstead Heath, you take a Bovril; to go to the City, take Carter’s Ink; and to get anywhere in a hurry, jump on a Horlick’s Malted Milk.
[...]
I always feared that, if I got in or on one, I couldn’t see the rest of them as a whole. And it is the unbroken continuity that, after the coloring, is their greatest charm.
[later]
The ocean may be wider,—the Flatiron Building may be taller,—but there’s nothing in all the world so big as a London omnibus.
[Cf. Jeremy Edwards:
Over Millicent’s shoulder, a stream of taxis—apparently perpetual while the green lights reigned—evoked the infinite scope of the city.
She followed my gaze. “Have you ever imagined that as soon as they disappear beyond the horizon, they dip under the island and loop back around? It could be the same fifty taxis, over and over.”]
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And as I trod, I suddenly found myself in Curzon Street. This was a pleasant sensation, for did I not well know the name of Curzon Street from all the English novels I had ever read? Moreover, I knew that in one of its houses Lord Beaconsfield died, and in another the Duke of Marlborough lived. The detail of knowing which house was which possessed no interest for me.
[...]
Attracted by the name of Half-Moon Street, I left Curzon Street for it. Shelley once lived in this street, and I selected three houses any one of which might have been his home.
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Though I expected to shop in London, there was only one article that I was really anxious to buy. This was a jade cube. For many years I had longed for a jade cube, and American experts had contented themselves with stating there was no such thing in existence. Time after time, I had begged friends who were going to the ends of the earth to bring me back a jade cube from one of the ends, but none had accomplished my errand.
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An English telephone is a contradiction in terms. If it is in England, it isn’t a telephone. It is a thing that looks something like a broken ox-yoke, that is manipulated something like a trombone, and is about as effectual as the Keeley Motor.
A course of lessons is necessary to learn to use one, but the lessons are wasted, as the instrument is invariably out of order, and moreover, nobody has one, anyhow.
But one morning, before I had discovered all this, I was summoned to the telephone booth of the Pantheon Club, and blithely grasped the cumbersome affair, with its receiver on one end and its transmitter on the other. I ignorantly held it wrong end to, but that made no difference, as it wouldn’t work either way.
[Illustration recommendation: “Grawsp it stiffer, M’am.” Ooh-er! I like to imagine the author and illustrator did this knowingly, and I think it's quite possible, all things considered.]
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I had not intended to plunge into the social whirl so soon, and had declined all the many invitations which had come to me by mail.
But somehow the telephone invitation took me unawares, and, too, I was so pleased to succeed in getting the message at all that it seemed ungracious and ungrateful to refuse.
***
The London hostess’s invariable mode of procedure is a sudden, inordinate gush of welcome, followed immediately by an icy stare. By the time you have politely responded to the welcome, your hostess has forgotten your existence. Nay, more, she seems almost to have forgotten her own. She is vague, self-absorbed, and quite oblivious of your existence. I have heard of a lady with a gracious presence. The London hostess is best described by a gracious absence.
But having adapted yourself to this condition, your hostess is likely to whirl about and dart a remark or a question at you.
***
“A well-bred Englishwoman,” my hostess dictatorially observed, “never talks of herself. She tactfully makes the person to whom she is talking the subject of conversation.”
“But,” said I, “if the person to whom she is talking is also well-bred, he must reject that subject, and tactfully talk about the first speaker. This must bring about a deadlock.”
***
Moreover, at English afternoon teas there are two rules. One is you may not speak to a fellow-guest without an introduction. The other is that no introduction is necessary between guests of the house. One of these rules is always inflexibly enforced at every tea; but the casual guest never knows which one, and so complications ensue.
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From Indiana University's 1931 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
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we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"Spent a fortune; now a pauper." From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1907.
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From Purple Parrot, 1943.
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flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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 kangaroo conductor. From Loyola's 1980 yearbook.
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From the University of Omaha's 1922 yearbook.
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From Augustana College's 1931 yearbook.
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From Ohio Wesleyan's 1929 yearbook.
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"A rat went galloping full-speed over us." From Lighted Pathway, 1952.
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From Wilmington College's 1969 yearbook.
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From Franke Reade Weekly Magazine, 1893.
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"A Christmas story without the ghost." From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1946.
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From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1954.
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From The Grasshopper's Hop by Zitella Cocke and illustrated by Joseph J. Mora, 1901.
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From c. 1908, courtesy of UpNorth Memories.
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From Purple Parrot, 1934.
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From The Johnson Journal, 1947.
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The solemn tradition of gathering together to observe night snow revealed by a streetlight. From Assumption College's 1975 yearbook.
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From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1957.
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From Lebanon Valley's 1924 yearbook.
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From Johns Hopkins' 1896 yearbook.
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From Santa Clara's 1928 yearbook.
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From Purple Parrot, 1922.
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From Wesleyan College's 1899 yearbook.
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Santa held this present back until you needed it most! From The Film Daily, 1938.
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unearths some literary gems.
From The Man Who Lost His Past, by Frank Richardson:
[I was led to this book courtesy of Googling the expression "succès de fiasco," which I'd encountered in Vanity Fair.]
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The pointed black whiskers peered over the sheets like book-markers on the whiteness of the bed.
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As a hat it was either an insult or an unpractical joke.
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He was actually a perambulating plagiarism.
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a shadow, disowned by its substance
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But for the chenille eyebrow-fittings, like woolly caterpillars, his face was a blank sheet of of paper.
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[Bonus 1: Chapter IX is entitled "Mainly About Whiskers."]
[Bonus 2: a firm of solicitors called Higgins, Camperdown & Co.]
[Bonus 3a/3b: In-joke references to 19th-century tropes, to wit, a "shocking hat" and a legal case called Box v. Cox]
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"Pleasant. There's nothing the matter with Christmas! It's the presents, the element of surprises, and the spirit that make the great day glamorous." From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1938.
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From The (Berkeley) Wizard, 1938.
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From The Purple Parrot, 1941.
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From c. 1908, courtesy of UpNorth Memories.
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From The Johnson Journal, 1926.
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The three-in-one wise men. From Lighted Pathway, 1958.
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Christmas is for the birds. From Together, 1969.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Purple Parrot, 1922.
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we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Phil May's Illustrated Winter Annual, 1894.
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From University of Saskatchewan's 1961 yearbook.
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From The Kodak Magazine, 1920.
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From c. 1908, courtesy of UpNorth Memories.
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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 Lighted Pathway, 1963.
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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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Not crazy enough to be committed, not sane enough to be out, and then came that Christmas tableau. From Together, 1972.
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The Odd Number Club from UNC Chapel Hill's 1907 yearbook.
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From Ballou's Pictorial, 1855.
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From Illinois State Normal's 1951 yearbook.
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From Fables and Tales by W. F. Rocheleau, 1897.
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From Purple Parrot, 1925.
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From the rare The Fireside Sphinx by Agnes Repplier and illustrated by Elizabeth Bonsall, 1901.
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From Purple Parrot, 1929.
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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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Skeletons on the moon. From Pearson's, 1900.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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unearths some literary gems.
From Polly Preferred, by Guy Bolton:
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Even her favorite invocation hadn't helped; the love of Pete didn't prevent her blouse from being stained.
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"I seen you had the genius of a Sarah Bernhardt the first time I set me penetratin' orbs on you, and I've never had to change spectacles since."
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"Maybe if I try a new sandwich I can make a fresh start."
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She stood all unconscious, studying the sandwiches as profoundly as if they had been examples in Trigonometry.
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Raising an imaginary monocle to her eye, [she] looked him over.
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Moving pictures!...That magic world in which heroes heroed, in which beauties beauted....
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"I don't know how it is, but you make nonsense turn to sense."
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[A mashup of "asking for the moon" and "the moon is made of green cheese"]
"Oh, I wonder if I can have a cigarette?" Polly asked sweetly.
"Can you!" Let her ask for a slice of the moon's green cheese, and Joe would promptly sharpen the knife to carve it.
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"I need the walk to keep down my embongpong."
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[I *think* Bolton is breaking the fourth wall here.]
But he wasn't going to give up his grouch. That, at least, he might indulge in to the end of the chapter.
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[Bonus: An employee of a busy automat restaurant ironically suggests he can ask "Mrs. Automat" (i.e., a quaint, nonexistent owner) to accommodate a customer's special request.]
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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 (Berkeley) Wizard, 1938.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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 to bring back formal portraits wih mop wigs. From Saint Jerome's College's 1952 yearbook.
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From The Film Daily, 1931.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Roller skates versus penny-farthing: which do you wager for the win? From Chicago Normal College's 1927 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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"Most people like reading about what they already know--there is even a public for yesterday's weather." —Nancy Mitford, "Reading for Pleasure," 1961 [Hat tip: the winsome Jonathan.]
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"Repression cannot crush spiritual revolt." From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1942.
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From c. 1908, courtesy of UpNorth Memories.
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From Lighted Pathway, 1946.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Purple Parrot, 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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From Old Town Clock by Reba Mahan Stevens and illustrated by Florence Liley Young, 1931.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"When mother was Santa." From Together, 1960.
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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 Loyola's 1980 yearbook.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Fort Wayne's 1987 yearbook.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Missouri Southern State University's 1975 yearbook.
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From The (Berkeley) Wizard, 1938.
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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 Petersons Magazine, 1865.
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From Ohio State University's College of Medicine's 1955 yearbook.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From The Deadwood Dick Library, 1899.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Thanks, but I'm all right. From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1968.
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All but the hyena were recaptured after the wreck of a circus train. From the Duluth Herald, 1910.
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The clock above the Christmas shop in Fairhope, Alabama doesn't agree with the time in the world outside of the anomaly. Indeed, "Christmas is timeless. You can forward and backward in time, between dreams and memories" (Chip Davis).
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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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"What UFO? That's our Christmas party lights." Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2007.
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From c. 1908, courtesy of UpNorth Memories.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Purple Parrot, 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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From Lighted Pathway, 1967.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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 Eastern Montana's 1964 yearbook.
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From Kladderadatsch, 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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From Ohio State's 1921 yearbook.
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Depicted as a lightning rod! From The Century, 1880.
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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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Great news! "Dark night, spread over 1000 years has ended." From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1948.
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From Lighted Pathway, 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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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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 what we look like any time the doorbell rings. From Poets' Wit and Humor by W. H. Wills and illustrated by Charles Bennett and George H. Thomas, 1860.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Here's an 1887 precursor to Batman's villain The Human Magnet (1952), from Zwischen Donau und Kaukasus by Amand von Schweiger-Lerchenfeld.
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May undead skeletons be too preoccupied with engraving their swords to wield them. From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"The egg dance," from Scribner's 1875.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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 Loyola's 1980 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 Ohio Wesleyan's 1929 yearbook.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Earlham's 1959 yearbook.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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unearths some literary gems.
[Note: This book involved so much plot development about financial turbulence and machinations within the early 1920s British import-export hosiery industry that I was almost craving a cricket match.]
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It seems a little obvious, perhaps, to say that nothing marks the passage of time so much as one's birthdays, since it was precisely for this purpose that birthdays were first invented.
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[This somehow ties in with pre-blogging the future and all that, as I see it. The protagonist entertains his young niece by spinning yarns of things that supposedly happened that day, until it's her bedtime.]
"That's all that happened to-day," said Bill firmly....
"But more happened another day?" suggested Sylvia.
"Oh, yes. Lots more. Only it hasn't happened yet, you see."
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[Piling on the participles!]
What on earth, he asked himself...had he been and gone and done now?
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Is there anything, one wonders, like the human nose for playing these tricks with one's memory. An all-but-forgotten tune can do a good deal, it is true; but for the sheer illusion which can set time at defiance, commend me to the all-but-forgotten smell.
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"I'm quite serious," she said.
"So am I," answered Bill.
And in proof of this, they both laughed.
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So far as it went, the interview was a satisfactory one. That is to say that neither the manager nor his assistant...laughed loudly or gave other signs of visible contempt at the idea of Messrs. Fraser and Company coming to them for a loan.
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One of Mr. Stromberg's mannerisms...was to fill up any of the pauses which marked his search for a missing word with a kind of buzzing sound.* By this simple means he was able at the same time to prevent anyone else from breaking in on him.**
[*Coincidentally, a character in Burke's Law "Who Killed Hamlet" does something similar.]
[**Would we call this a "ploy"?]
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The butler executed a brief fantasia on the electric switches by the door, the general effect of which was to leave the lighting pretty much as it was.
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He sped past them both and resumed his place at the sofa, rather as though he were trying to create the illusion that he had never really left the room.
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Couldn't we leave it to other people to wallow in italicised sentiment?
[N.B. This is the narrator speaking to the reader.]
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George pointed out that once a Frenchwoman becomes a widow...she is practically immortal....Mme Lemaitre may have been more of a potential than an actual widow; but this is the important fact: she dressed like one.
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Heaven knows that you and I aren't the kind of people to set ourselves up as experts on sentiment.
[Narrator to reader, again.]
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[Sometimes one word takes a sentence from amusing to hilarious.]
"I won a prize at the tennis tournament." She illustrated this triumph by a vigorous movement with her arm, narrowly escaping hitting a passer-by in the beard [my emphasis].
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"A Swiss half-franc for your thoughts." [I wonder how that would come out if run through the 1922 exchange rate against the British penny.]
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There were super-dressing-cases, super-umbrellas, super-clocks, super-photograph-frames and super-articles to which it was impossible to give any name. The shop itself had clearly abandoned the attempt, and had ticketed them as "The Season's Novelties."
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"Perhaps he'll be able to see further into this brick wall than I can."
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[Three longer snippets attached.]
[Bonus: Section III (of seven sections total) is entitled, "A Few Telegrams." It makes me think of Mackail's buddy Wodehouse, of course; but Bill the Bachelor dates from 1922, i.e., roughly a decade prior to those telegram-heavy Jeeves and Bertie novels--though of course PGW may have used flurry-of-telegram business earlier elsewhere.]
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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 Purdue University's School of Veterinary Medicine's 1963 yearbook.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"Having a towering French hairdo was like wearing a Christmas tree." From Big Wig by Kathleen Krull, 2011.
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Here's proof that it's cool to wear tin-foil hats. "Aluminum hats. Its use as lining is said to induce coolness." From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1935.
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More like fat lady? From Lighted Pathway, 1971.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing. Click each image for its source.
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Seventies fashions seem a world a way. From Tulane's 1978 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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You can often tell a math person. From Loyola's 1980 yearbook.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Memphis State's 1964 yearbook.
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From Ohio Wesleyan's 1929 yearbook.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From The Brother Bears by Anna Williams Arnett and illustrated by Ludwig & Regina, 1927.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Disguised as a Christmas bow. From Broome Technical Community College's 1966 yearbook.
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From Imagine, Adventure Games Magazine, No. 21.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Colorado State College's 1960 yearbook.
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From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Though "Herbie Biscuits," in the plural, would be a funnier cat name, this is a precursor to comedian Bob Mortimer's curation of funny cat names. From Toike Oike, 1946.
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"There is no such place as 'Hollywood.'" From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1941.
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The only thing that lasts is ...
- the sense of belonging to a place
- garbage
- repression
- the truth of Marx's teaching as interpreted by Lenin
- the unfolding of the tale
- the past
- now
- stone
- chaos
- art
- the stick
- the provisional
- hatred
- a memory
- work
- the careless flow of time
- the red earth of Tara
- death
- the enigma of the leaven the eye cannot see
- the growth of knowledge
- a joy beyond
- good soil in the hands of good husbandmen
- the human soul
- change itself
- the theatre building itself
- the green stuff
- the photos
- the nagging thought that nothing lasts forever
[Less-interesting items we left out]:
- friendship
- the good we leave behind
- love
- beauty
- family
- silence
- truth
- a right relationship with God
[Tidbits gathered through the course of our research. See Bullet Lists.]
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Purple Parrot, 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 Windsor Teachers College's 1966 yearbook.
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From the Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn handbook.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Franklin College's 1915 yearbook.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Overland Monthly, 1916.
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From Ohio Wesleyan's 1929 yearbook.
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"Mother's pillow and umbrella were constantly frightening the poor horses." From Lighted Pathway, 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 Earlham's 1959 yearbook.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From the University of Alberta's 1945 yearbook.
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"Moody Sunday observed here." From The Duluth Herald, 1915.
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From the University of Illinois's 1922 yearbook.
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From The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1919.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"'This is your last ride,' said a solemn voice." From American Indian Weekly, 1911.
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From South Suburban's 1953 yearbook.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Salem's 1918 yearbook.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Manchester College's 1922 yearbook.
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Oh no -- I'm committing all three of these common errors right this very minute! From Popular Mechanics, 1942.
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From Ohio Wesleyan's 1929 yearbook.
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"Touch reality vicariously." From the University of Detroit's 1965 yearbook.
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From Wilmington College's 1969 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 confirms our disinclination to play Sand In Your Eye. From Middle Tennessee's 1966 yearbook.
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"Raisin' cane!" From Purple Parrot, 1935.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Hampden-Sydney College's 1920 yearbook.
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From Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne and illustrated by Milo Winter, 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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"Millionaire's wife gives 100 parties a year." From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1968.
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Can't wait! "Trips to the moon in 1954!" From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1945.
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"I forgot that you are much too big to come into the parlor." From The Duluth Herald, 1903.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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| I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought |
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From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1986.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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 are days that could benefit from a rallying horn. Here's one, if called for. From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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We also tend to oppose Issue #5, whatever it happens to be. From the University of Akron's 1959 yearbook.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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We, too, majored in English, and that's exactly why so many fairies and imps populate all we do. From Western Illinois State Normal School's 1916 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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Receiving the vestments of ugliness. From Wilmington College's 1969 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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"'Coping' is the thing." From North Carolina Agricultural and Technical's 1972 yearbook.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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unearths some literary gems.
From "Mary Smith," by Booth Tarkington:
***[Breaking the ice by talking about the weather. (And I note the inclusion of Yesterday's Weather!)]Our Henry took up the weather where she left it; he put it to its utmost; he went forward with it, prophesying weather; he went backward with it, recalling weather; he spun it out and out, while she agreed to all he said, until this overworked weather got so stringy that each obscurely felt it to be hideous. The thread broke; fragments wandered in the air for a few moments, but disappeared; a desperate propriety descended, and they fell into silence over their eggs.***She laughed a great deal. She even had a way of laughing in the middle of some of her words, and it gave them a kind of ripple....A pen cannot express it, neither can a typewriter, and no one has yet invented a way of writing with a flute.***
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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 book in ballet shoes on top of the world that's strumming the eyes in the sky to sleep is from Wilson College's 1949 yearbook.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From James Millikin University's 1912 yearbook.
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From Lighted Pathway, 1971.
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"Scandalwood" is a very rare word outside of perfume names. We learn that it must not be confused with deadly gossip-weed (Wisperia Scandalosa), in Pearson's Magazine, 1909, and that it is poisonous ( Cupid's Almanac and Guide to Hearticulture, 1908). "When every log of scandalwood had blood on it." From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1953.
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Sad -- a graduate trying to entice a ride, but the highway is deserted. From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1945 yearboook.
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From William and Mary's 1915 yearbook.
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Yes, Christmas can indeed happen today, but only if it's snowing. (Sorry -- we don't make up the rules.) From Together, 1968.
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From Virginia Commonwealth's 1972 yearbook.
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"Political Carnival." From Lustige Blätter, 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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"My first fling with sin." From Lighted Pathway, 1958.
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The psudo-3D effect of this photo of frozen silence may be used to facilitate time travel. From Tarleton State' 1968 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 Pembroke's 1965 yearbook.
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High as a kite. From Purple Parrot, 1941.
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From Dartmouth College's 1931 yearbook.
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"What is your hair problem." From Improvement Era, 1950.
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"Am I expected to go through that?" From Peace Institute's 1919 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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"Strange the first day." From Ohio University's 1959 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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"No matter where the body is, the mind is free to go elsewhere." From Bellarmine College's 1968 yearbook.
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From Lamaism by L. Austine Waddell, 1934.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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 Taylor Magazine, 1969.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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 1951 yearbook.
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Traveling through space in a giant slipper with a witchy cat, as one does. From Witch's Cat by Ruth Chew.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Northeastern's 1925 yearbook.
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It's a common mistake, but Allen Whatshisname is not the same author as Allen Drury. From Together, 1968.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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 West Georgia's 1947 yearbook.
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From Lighted Pathway, 1971.
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"Just a dream, just a dream." From Georgia Teachers College's 1959 yearbook.
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Reblog with tips on how to make room for both books and a giant teddy bear. From the University of Cincinnati's 1949 yearbook.
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From Purple Parrot, 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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From Hampden-Sydney College's 1920 yearbook.
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"Climate very unfavorable." From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1904.
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From Oberlin College's 1916 yearbook.
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We tracked down a temporal anomaly to the First Pentecostal Church Of North Little Rock, Arkansas. Neither clock face agreed with the time in the world outside of the anomaly. "As if time at least were to coincide with itself, and I with it, as if time and its two times were one single time that still was not time, a time where always is now and anytime always" (Octavio Paz, A Draft of Shadows).
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"If these pseudo peace demonstrators are indicative of the future of our nation, God help us!" From Bellarmine College's 1968 yearbook.
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Lion versus elephant: which do you wager for the win? From Chatterbox, 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 Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1907.
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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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| Hindpsych: Erstwhile Conjectures by the Sometime Augur of Yore |
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| * Historians must reconstruct the past out of hazy memory. "Once upon a time" requires "second sight." The "third eye" of intuition can break the "fourth wall" of conventional perspectives. Instead of "pleading the fifth," historians can take advantage of the "sixth sense" and be in "seventh heaven." All with the power of hindpsych, the "eighth wonder of the world." It has been said that those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it. Therein lies the importance of Tarot readings for antiquity. When we confirm what has already occurred, we break the shackles of the past, freeing ourselves to chart new courses into the future. |
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Today, they call it "urbex." From St. Nicholas, 1915.
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From the University of the South's 1927 yearbook.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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The Owls. From Purdue's 1901 yearbook.
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Here's wishing you a respite. "Once in a while, a respite." From Together, 1971.
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From William and Mary's 1933 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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Less challenging than cramming into a telephone booth. From Alderson-Broaddus College's 1963 yearbook.
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"When your plane catches on fire ... be nonchalant." From Purple Parrot, 1930.
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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 Birmingham-Southern's 1929 yearbook.
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unearths some literary gems.
Dear Reader, small the boon I ask,—
Your gentle smile, to egg my wit on;
Lest people deem my earnest task
Not worth the paper it is writ on.
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The iceman...had the hard, set jaw of a prize fighter was successfully eating steak, and he welcomed the incoming fried potatoes, as one greets a new instalment of a serial.
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“Hello,” languidly responded a girl like a long pale lily—a Burne-Jones type, who sometimes carried around a small stained-glass window to rest her head against.
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She saw gardens like the Tuileries and Tuilerums.
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"Good work, I'll megaphone."
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Warble sat down in an easy-going chair—so easy, it slid across the room with her.
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Goldwin Leathersham was a great Captain of Industry. In fact, he put the dust in industry, or, at least, he took it out of it. He got it, anyway.
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The French chef looked puzzled. He was an expensive chef and part of his duty was to look puzzled at any plain-named dish.
***
“Why, you see, I am a solist—like a palmist you know—but as to feet. I studied solistry in Asia Minor and I know it from the ground up. Oh, please, Mrs. Petticoat, let me read your sole!”
[...]
“The Solar system,” he began, “is interesting in the extreme. It was invented by Solon, though Platoe also theorized on the immortality of the sole. His ideas, however have been discarded by modern footmen.
“Locke, is [sic] his treatise On the Human Understanding, discusses the subject fully and with many footnotes, and old Samuel Foote himself cast footlights on the subject.”
[...]
“The palmist may claim to read the true character from the lines of the hand, but it is only by solistry that the real sole is laid bare and the character of a subject in any walk of life is exposed. The lines of the sole are greatly indicative of character, for all traits must draw the line somewhere. Now, Mrs. Petticoat, this line extending from the Mount of Trilby to the outer side of the sole is the life line. If that appears to be broken it indicates future death. If more pronounced on one sole than the other, it implies that the subject has one foot in the grave. You haven't, don't be alarmed. Here is the headline, straight and continuous, showing a long and level head.”
[...]
“This line running from the Mount of Cinderella to the heel is the clothes line and denotes love of dress. This line crossing it is the fish line and shows you are incapable of telling the truth.”
[...]
“A thorough, broad understanding and a friendly footing toward all,” declared the solist, “and no danger of misunderstanding.”
[...]
“Mount of Atalanta highly prominent,” said Goodsport, “that means you are a runner, either for office or for pleasure. Here is a line meeting—that indicates a railroad man. H'm. A well-developed football shows you have been to college. You seem to be inclined to solemates—”
But Leathersham had taken to his heels.
[...]
“Ah, the poetic foot!” the soloist exclaimed. “There are two kinds of poetic feet—the Iambic and the Trochaic. You have one of each.
***
They were a stuck-up lot. The fly-paper had intrigued them all.
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The irrepressible impulse of reform egged her on and it was a perfectly good egg.
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“I know all about art but I don't know what I like,” she returned, blushing prettily.
[This precurses Thurber's "He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes" cartoon by almost two decades, btw.]
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“Why, a Color Organ is that marvelous new invention that plays color instead of sound.”
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"I bet her soul has got its rubbers on!"
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“Having a walk?” he inquired, casually.
“Yop,” she casualed back.
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[Un-round numbers dept.]
“How long'll you be gone?”
“It may be four yearth and it may be eleven—”
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Her position was that of a pickle taster.
At first, only of the little gherkins, then promoted through medium cucumbers, to the glory of full-fledged Dills.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From the University of Arkansas' 1918 yearbook.
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Ironic, paradoxical, and instructive -- finding something else to focus upon in the midst of horror. "Angling on the River Meuse. 'Hope to heaven you don't have to fire. It might scare the fish.'" From Bazaar Daily, 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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From Ohio University's 1912 yearbook.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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If you've ever dreamed that you related an anecdote, "you will greatly prefer gay companionship to that of intellect, and that your affairs will prove as unstable as yourself." From 10,000 Dreams Interpreted by Gustavus Hindman Miller.
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From our review of Hades Speaks! A Guide To the Underworld By the Greek God of the Dead, by Vicky Alvear Shecter and illustrated by J. E. Larson, in which we hail the illustrations for bringing the underworld to life (as it were). Though we love that the narrator is bitter and alienated, the anachronisms certainly rub us the wrong way. We get that the author is striving to appeal to young readers with references to Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, modern sports, and the like, but (having ourselves dedicated years to studying the art of prosaic timelessness) we'd prefer this book (and any, for that matter) be unrooted in time. A classical tone, ageless -- that's what a guide to the Greek underworld should possess. Yet the spectacular illustrations make it easier to turn a blind eye to any narrative weaknesses. Not since Gustave Doré have we seen such an engaging depiction of the other place.
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Today's whistling oyster is from St. Nicholas, 1916.
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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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"Rosy roads and shadowy valleys." From Lighted Pathway, 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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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Twinkle Toes and His Magic Mittens by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by F. R. Morgan, 1919.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Wake Forest's 1912 yearbook.
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By Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin, in Essay de Papillonneries Humaines (1756). Via LifeTakesLemons.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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 Ohio State's 1921 yearbook.
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"Even long ago is not so far away." From Together, 1967.
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We're not sure that this illustration for the Dept. of History implies an "Ottoman" joke, but we'd like to think it does. From Western Illinois State Normal School's 1916 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 Alderson-Broaddus College's 1963 yearbook.
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From Purple Parrot, 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 East Carolina University's 1964 yearbook.
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"How I should like to blow a huge bubble around me." From East Tennessee State University's 1973 yearbook.
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From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Here's a precursor to the cosmic insects film Starship Troopers. "Do insects rule the Mars?" From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1951.
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Learning pure English by being "on the sence [sic]" of Gone with the Wind. One learns to say such things as "my ear bobs" and "you're not worth three hundred dollars." "Watching classical movie, learning pure English. The most classical movie in the 20th century. Everlasting love affair over the centuary [sic]. Moving the heaven and world. Vivien Leigh & Clark Gable as the leading feature. Placing yourself into the scene, listening to idiomatic dialogue, learning in the fun. You will get a great surprise in your oral English and listening skills after you understand ten movies."
It's a beautifully designed and rather bizarre language instruction, here on Archive dot org.
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| I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought |
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The only way to be happy is to …
- live in the Now
- choose, moment by moment, your future
- make others so
- be of use in the world
- expect to have your heart broken every day
- shut yourself up in art
- be busy
- be humble
- wish to be happy
- behave like what you are
- love
- tolerate uncertainty
- restore inner peace
- forgive
- emancipate from guilt
- aspire to a higher purpose
- wonder
- start yourself over and over again
[Tidbits gathered through the course of our research. See the remarkable collection, entitled Bullet Lists.]
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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 Wake Forest's 1920 yearbook.
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Ceremonial rest. From The Century, 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
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Indiana State Normal School's 1916 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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At first glance we assumed they were wrangling a ghost, then that they were chiseling a statue. Our custom Uncanny Detector app says it's actually the ghost of a statue. From Western Illinois State Normal School's 1916 yearbook.
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A team of Santas. From Purple Parrot, 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 Joplin Junior College's 1942 yearbook.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"Clings to cliff with his dead." From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1904.
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From Ohio Wesleyan University's 1930 yearbook.
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From The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1919.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Wheaton College's 1956 yearbook.
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Canine opera singers so rarely grace magazine covers these days. From Chatterbox, 1876.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"Mr. Floozey wanted to be seen lolling in a leather Chair by the Window." From Hand-Made Fables by George Ade and illustrated by John T. McCutcheon, 1920.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Berea College's 1986 yearbook.
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Today's pineapple of faith is from Eastern Pilgrim Colleges 1955 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 jury of the dead passed judgment. From Windsor Teachers College's 1966 yearbook.
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From Ohio State's 1921 yearbook.
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In just a quarter of a century we'll finally know how prescient Orwell really was. From Together, 1959.
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If you've heard unpleasant music called a "racket," here's why. From Hampden-Sydney's 1928 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 Augustana 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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From Western Illinois State Normal School's 1916 yearbook.
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The tentacles of modernism. From Lighted Pathway, 1935.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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A Saturn-like ring surrounds every clock, though often not visible without special equipment. From Joplin Junior College's 1942 yearbook.
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Meeting oneself. From Purple Parrot, 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 Northwestern University's 1922 yearbook.
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From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's 1914 yearbook.
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"So your child wants some white mice." From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1968.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Purple Parrot, 1934.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From MacMurray's 1966 yearbook.
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From Ohio State's 1921 yearbook.
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Proof that angel wings don't prohibit the wearing of a cape. From North Texas State Normal College's 1919 yearbook.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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unearths some literary gems.
From "Harlequin and Columbine," by Booth Tarkington:
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His face was toward the Library, with its two annoyed pet lions.
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“Tea!” gasped Canby. “People are sick of tea! I didn't write any tea!”
“There isn't any,” said Tinker. “The way he's got it, there's an interruption before the tea comes, and it isn't brought in.”
“But she's ordered it! If it doesn't come the audience will wonder—”
“No,” said Tinker. “They won't think of that. They won't hear her order it.”
“Then for heaven's sake, why has he put it in? I wrote this play to begin right in the story—”
“That's the trouble. They never hear the beginning. They're slamming seats, taking off wraps, looking round to see who's there. That's why we used to begin plays with servants dusting and 'Well-I-never-half-past-nine-and-the-young-master-not-yet-risen!”
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Tinker came noiselessly down the aisle and resumed his seat beside Canby, who was uttering short, broken sighs, and appeared to have been trying with fair success to give himself a shampoo.
“It's ruined, Mr. Tinker!” he moaned, and his accompanying gesture was misleading, seeming to indicate that he alluded to his hair.
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Potter stamped the floor; there was wrenched from him an incoherent shriek containing fragments of profane words and ending distinguishably with: “It's that Missmiss again!”
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She was reputed to walk much among gentles, and to have a high taste in letters and the drama; for she was chief of an essay club, had a hushing manner, and often quoted with precision from reviews, or from such publishers' advertisements as contained no slang; and she was a member of one of the leagues for patronizing the theatre in moderation.
“Mr. Canby,” said the hostess pleasantly, “Miss Cornish wishes to—”
This obtained the attention of the assembly, while Canby, at the other end of the room, sat back in his chair with the unenthusiastic air of a man being served with papers.
“Yes, Miss Cornish.”
Miss Cornish cleared her throat, not practically, but with culture, as preliminary to an address. “I was saying, Mr. Canby,” she began, “that I had a suggestion to make which may not only interest you, but certain others of us who do not enjoy equal opportunities in some matters—as—as others of us who do. Indeed, I believe it will interest all of us without regard to—to—to this. What I was about to suggest was that since today you have had a very interesting experience, not only interesting because you have entered into a professional as well as personal friendship with one of our foremost artists—an artist whose work is cultivated always—but also interesting because there are some of us here whose more practical occupations and walk in life must necessarily withhold them from—from this. What I meant to suggest was that, as this prevents them from—from this—would it not be a favourable opportunity for them to—to glean some commentary upon the actual methods of a field of art? Personally, it happens that whenever opportunities and invitations have been—have been urged, other duties intervened, but though, on that account never having been actually present, I am familiar, of course, through conversation with great artists and memoirs and—and other sources of literature—with the procedure and etiquette of rehearsal. But others among us, no doubt through lack of leisure, are perhaps less so than—than this.”
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“He writes about theatrical matters,” said Carson Tinker. “Talky-talk writing: 'the drama'—'temperament'—'people of cultivation'—quotes Latin or Italian or something. 'Technique' is his star word; he plays 'technique' for a hand every other line. Doesn't do any harm; in fact, I think he does us a good deal of good. Lots of people read that talky-talk writing nowadays. Not in New York, but in road-towns, where they have plenty of time. This fellow's never against any show much, unless he takes a notion. You slip 'dolsy far nienty' or something about Danty or logarithms somewhere into your play, where it won't delay the action much, and he'll be for you.”
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“A play isn't something you read; it's something actors do on a stage; and they can't afford to do it unless the public pays to watch 'em. If it won't buy tickets, you haven't got a play; you've only got some typewriting.”
Canby glanced involuntarily at the blue-covered manuscript he had placed upon a table beside him. It had a guilty look.
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He never interrupted when Potter was speaking; and Canby noticed that whenever Potter talked at any length Tinker looked thoughtful and distant, like a mechanic so accustomed to the whirr and thunder of the machine-shop that he may indulge in reveries there.
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“You'll see as you get to know him. You won't know him any better than you do now, Mr. Canby; you'll only know him more.”
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The whole vast cavern of the theatre was as still as the very self of silence.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Tulane University's 1910 yearbook. "Oh, we're all frank and twenty when the spring is in the air, and we've faith and hope a-plenty and we've life and love to spare" (Richard Hovey.)
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"Here is an appropriate ash tray because." From Improvement Era, 1935.
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A little row of dots that transitions a heroine into a boarding house. From Someone and Somebody by Porter Emerson Browne, 1917.
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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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Having lived by a lake, we can vouch for the authenticity of this illustration. Geese act as though no other wildlife exist. From Goofy Mrs. Goose, written and illustrated by Miriam Clark Potter.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Well, that would explain why my piggy bank seems so light lately. From Pfeiffer's 1970 yearbook.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"The Cats of Henriette Ronner." From The Century, 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
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"My adventures as a bulb snatcher." From Together, 1960.
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From Hampden-Sydney's 1928 yearbook.
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Great caption -- "There's more talk than fact to tarantua-stories." From The Century, 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
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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 good, some bad, some mediocre." From Wesleyan College's 1967 yearbook.
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"The T must go." From Lighted Pathway, 1939.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Gannon's 1960 yearbook.
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From Purple Parrot, 1931.
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From Indiana University's 1948 yearbook.
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From Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1914.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From James Millikin University's 1912 yearbook.
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From the Duluth Herald, 1910.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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 Purple Parrot, 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 The Magic Shop by Maurice Dolbier and illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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 Pfeiffer's 1970 yearbook.
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Here's a cone of silence, for you-know-who. From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From East Tennessee State's 1934 yearbook.
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This temporal anomaly contains a purple haze near the middle. Plus, a magic word square surrounds the XII, with "word" spelled forwards, backwards, upside down, vertically, and upside down vertically. From Wilmington's 1923 yearbook.
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"The small round shadow passed on across the bright lantern of the moon." From Star People by Katharine Fay Dewey, 1910.
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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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"Sour grapes." From Salem College's 1911 yearbook.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Kenyon College's 1926 yearbook.
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From Franklin College's 1929 yearbook.
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From Together magazine, 1967.
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From Hope College's 1934 yearbook.
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Cyrus. From Chatterbox, 1901.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1907.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Central Carolina Technical's 1983 yearbook.
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Wm. H. Beard's American museum of art. From Scribner's, 1871.
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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 Ohio University's 1921 yearbook.
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A better scan of this one. From Poets' Wit and Humor by W. H. Wills and illustrated by Charles Bennett and George H. Thomas, 1860.From Poets' Wit and Humor by Wh. H. Wills and illustrated by Charles Bennett and George H. Thomas, 1860.
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From Georgia Southwestern's 1973 yearbook.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
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From Kenyon College's 1926 yearbook.
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"Happiness explosion is what's happening." From The Daily Tar Heel, 1966.
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unearths some literary gems.
These snippets are from a catalog of rare editions of 1920s-1930s fiction. Text outside of quotation marks (complete with typos and other mistakes) comes from the dealer (or possibleysome third-party they source from); text inside quotation marks comes from the actual blurbs found on the books.***1. Anonymously written expose of New York night-life and Broadway habitués including Lenny Parr whose "six major adventures constitute a sexagon not to be discovered in the most advanced geometry."2. Jazz Age romance novel of high society and an antique dealer thrown into the mix.3. "She loved her elderly husband the gentle, musty antique dealer whose thoughts she could never read; but she loved Ambrose too, the mad, blonde, young man who wanted the china shepherdess...."4. Jazz-Age novel of a "very modern girl" who is dissatisfied with her marriage. [Author Freeman] Tilden is best known for his writings about the National Park system.5. Two bank clerks and their wives are "left a small fortune, but on conditions not only stringent but embarrassing. Among other tasks assigned them were the theft of an Anglo-Indian colonel's false teeth, the production of half of the uncrowned King of Limehouse's mustache, and inducing a bishop to use bad language."6. An English prep school teacher moves to London, "meets the kind of Bohemians he has visualized, moves into a Chelsea flat, gaudily and theatrically decorated in ultramodern style. He grows a picturesque mustache and beard, buys a cape, a broad brimmed hat, a velvet jacket, green shirts and flowing ties. He becomes a member of the Y to the Nths, a weird, arty, frantically advanced group whose ideas he doesn't in the least understand". [Bonus: Author name is Guy Pocock.]7. Humorous novel about a young chemist from Pittsburgh with hopes of making his city the cleanest in the world.8. Humorous novel of Jazz Age Paris, "the fairly complex love affairs of Edgar Bowman among the higher brows to be found on the Left Bank. It culminates in the amazing and uproarious dialogue between James Joyce and Gertrude Stein, and in the absolute abandonment of Aunt Minnie to the gigolos and the modernists."9. "Johnny, Assistant Manager of Cosmic Films, job included applying banana oil to the over heated cylinders of temperamental stars."10. "A pedantic writer hopes that his latest novel will bring him fame and fortune."11. "Hilarious romance of a mathematical wizard actuary who jumped straight from a Hartford insurance office into the middle of a carnival troupe."***And few smaller snippets.***"a comedy of commotion"Mr. Snooks-Badajos who got into Parliament by mistakeHumpty-Dumpty's eyebrows***Next, an excerpt from a contemporary (1935) New York Times review of a book called Quick, Mr. Bunnifeel!.***'A goodly number of the words in his yarn are profane. Literally, he substitutes the word (profane) neatly enclosed in parentheses for every cuss word. This seems monotonous rather than funny. And the conscientious reader will find it tiresome deciding each time whether this particular (profane) should be a noun or an adjective, and after that, selecting the most appropriate word. "By Mencken" is the only oath that isn't expurgated.'***Some titles.***The Man Who Found Himself[which I learned was written by an author who had an earlier, apparently unrelated work called The Man Who Lost Himself]Hiss! Boom!! Blah!!!Some Nephew!Believe You Me!Murder on Alternate Tuesdays[And neither Hilary nor I knew there was an H. G. Wells book called The Bulpington of Blup!]***And some miscellaneous notes.***There was a 20th-century author who called themselves Inigo Jones; and one called Mrs. Wilson Woodrow.This one got my attention because of the discrepancy between the actual title and the stated title to the side: what a difference an "of" makes!https://www.yesterdaysgallery.com/pages/books/11322/mary-kennedy/question-of-the-nightSimilarly, the stated title here sounds like an imperative, but of course the dust jacket and description make it clear that a "stay-at-home" is a person.https://www.yesterdaysgallery.com/pages/books/15735/lawrence-nelson/stay-at-home And this looks like a precursor to Into the Woods:ERSKINE, John. Cinderella's Daughter and Other Sequels and Consequences. Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill Company. 1930.Erskine's humorous novel that adds the details and real endings not given in such fairy tales as Cinderella, Lady Godiva, Beanstalk Jack, Patient Griselda, Beauty and the Beast, and Sleeping Beauty.***
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flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From National College of Education's 1931 yearbook.
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From Indiana University's 1974 yearbook.
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From Purple Parrot, 1931.
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From Loyola University's 1928 yearbook.
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* Though printed in black and white, great literature is bursting with vibrant colour. In this rebus-style puzzle, color words and parts of words have been replaced with colored boxes. Try to guess the exact hue of each. Roll your mouse over the colored boxes to reveal the missing words. Click the colored boxes to learn more about each hue. Special thanks to Paul Dean for his colorful research.
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From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
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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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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"Procession of the white elephant." From Scribner's, 1871.
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Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
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A surprisingly honest acknowledgement of woodland entities. From the West Virginia University Division of Forestry's 1938 yearbook.
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From Together magazine, 1961.
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"The Tempter of Brute Power." From Centenary's 1961 yearbook.
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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 Kansas State's 1929 yearbook.
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From Evansville College's 1965 yearbook.
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They lure you with their bubbles. From the Phantasie handbook.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
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we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Vassar's 1945 yearbook.
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From Georgia Southwestern's 1973 yearbook.
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"Oh, I thought this was a restaurant." From Biltmore Oswald by J. Thorne Smith and illustrated by Richard Dorgan, 1918.
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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 Gannon's 1960 yearbook.
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From Purple Parrot, 1927.
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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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Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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 Lighted Pathway, 1971.
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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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we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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One of Santa's reindeer here is named "Stamper." Dancer, Prancer, and Blitzen will be familiar from the popular carol. From Collier's, 1915.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Composite photos of university students. From The Century, 1887.
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From Le Journal Amusant, 1910.
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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 North Texas State Normal College's 1919 yearbook.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Francis Marion's 1976 yearbook.
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From Together magazine, 1964.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Joplin Junior College's 1942 yearbook.
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"When winter comes a little something in me dies." From Purple Parrot, 1942.
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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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The best teachers find the best teaching practices. From North Central College's 1970 yearbook.
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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 the United States Naval Academy's 1938 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
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we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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If you're surprised to be called Socrates today, recall that "While no one is Socrates, everyone is Socrates" (Richard Mitchell, The Underground Grammarian, 1989). From Franklin College's 1915 yearbook.
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Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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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 Lighted Pathway, 1971.
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From Together magazine, 1957.
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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 Bryson's 1922 yearbook.
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From Echoes from Storyland, c. 1880.
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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 Lebanon Valley's 1952 yearbook.
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From the University of Montana's 1947 yearbook.
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From Tulane's 1925 yearbook.
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From Purple Parrot, 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 Evansville College's 1965 yearbook.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Susquehanna University's 1932 yearbook.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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It's all in how you wear it. From Mount Union College's 1980 yearbook.
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From The Duluth Herald, 1903.
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From Washburn's 1917 yearbook.
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From Tulane's 1916 yearbook.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Rockford College's 1937 yearbook.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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 Purple Parrot, 1932.
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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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unearths some literary gems.
From Tales from Greenery Street, by Denis Mackail:
***"I can't untelephone all the calls I had three months ago."***[A wrapped parcel] which might have been either a barometer or a ukulele.***Mrs. Grabley...vanished to complete whatever extraordinary task can have involved a toastrack and a man's boot.***Mr. Poulton smiled for a moment, and as anyone would who had ever seen his sister-in-law in the giggles. [I really like "in the giggles," as though it's a place, or perhaps a substance that one can immerse oneself in.]***Mr. Poulton's forehead had crumpled up into an intricate pattern.***He went back to the drawing-room with one eyebrow raised very high, and the other frowning horribly. This sinister expression exactly corresponded with his mood, which was a mixture of anger and bewilderment.***Under the searching light of philosophical inquiry there is always something faintly ridiculous about clothes.***
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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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"No more labels — to each her own." From Indiana University's 1974 yearbook.
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From The Boy's Own Paper, 1884.
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Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
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Today's unexpected 3D effect is from Taylor University's 1930 yearbook.
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Courtesy of La Biblioteca Universitaria de Sevilla's Goya collection.
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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 National Kindergarten and Elementary College's 1920 yearbook.
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This is why we never glue models while sitting under a cauldron, and also why we never read instructions. From Kids and The Apple by Edward Carlson, 1983.
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From Earlham's 1925 yearbook.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From University of Saskatchewan's 1964 yearbook.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Evansville College's 1965 yearbook.
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From The Purple Parrot, 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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From Santa Clara College's 1956 yearbook.
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From Watson's Magazine, 1906.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Wayne State University's 1945 yearbook.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Western Illinois State Normal School's 1907 yearbook.
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From Improvement Era, 1946.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Indiana University's 1924 yearbook.
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From Ohio State University's 1936 yearbook.
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Telephones have grown smaller over the decades, but they've also grown less fun. From Mount Vernon Nazarene University's 1976 yearbook.
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Find the milkmaid. From Chatterbox, 1909.
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From Omaha University's 1957 yearbook.
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Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2003.
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