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Gordon Meyer reveals why butterflies should be tracked and not caught.
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For those of us who add songs to beloved movie soundtracks as they grace our airwaves, the greater Meet the Hollowheads soundtrack should include Chaka Khan’s “ My Love is Alive.” You’re welcome! Speaking of Chaka Khan, as you revisit her music video for “ I Feel For You” (a blessed music video, obviously created by angels), note how the (superb!) dancers all get to connect with the camera. This is incredibly rare and a beautiful thing.
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From The Film Daily, 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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The city of An Oghmagh, Northern Ireland seems to exist within a rift in the fabric of time/space. Temporal anomalies documentarian Kenneth Allen offers three proofs. The first occurs at the troubling intersection of two streets with the same name (that's always playing with fire), and the clock (four hours early) is situated below a word missing its apostrophe. (Grammatical anomalies may, for reasons still foggy, trigger temporal anomalies all on their own.) Two "Campsie" streets, two (or more?) "Charlies" ... it's all a lot for the time to keep up with. The second proof is of a clock that proclaims "3:17" at 11:00 a.m. The third proof is of a clock displaying "6:15" at 11:30 a.m. For any would-be time travelers, An Oghmagh offers a city-wide portal.
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unearths some literary gems.
From Mr. Pinkerton at the Old Angel, by David Frome:
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"Pamela Gwendoylyn Watkins, dau. of Sir Wathen Watkins Watkins."
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[I didn't know (though Hilary did) that Rye's crooked chimney, as replicated in Tilling, really exists! However, you'll note that the claim below runs directly contrary to Benson's premise. The present book was published in 1939, whereas Benson, I see, was giving his version ("The expert artist would draw it rather more crooked than it really was...") at least as early as 1922.]
The little man stopped short by the house with the crooked chimney that everybody who paints comes to Rye to paint, they say because it is impossible to get the chimney any crookeder than it already is.
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[Pathetic Fallacy dept., Seat-of-Trousers div.]
He shot out into the room on the surprised seat of his trousers with something of a crash.
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["Throat" Is Too Vague dept.]
He stood there in the dark, his heart precisely where his epiglottis normally was.
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[I never realized that a devil's advocate has to look right!]
He realized that as Devil's Advocate he cut a rather sorry figure, sitting up against the cold head of his bed, the covers drawn up to his chin.
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Catching the image of himself in the mirror over the mantelpiece, he felt sure for the first time of the precise appearance of a whited sepulchre.
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Mr. Pinkerton took an enormous breath of relief, or rather a breath of enormous relief.
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From Lumières Dans la Nuit, 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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The human question mark, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill'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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If this is a gameboard, may you not land on any of the squares. From Southeastern Massachusetts'a 1994 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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"Thus far our fortune keeps an upward course" (Henry VI, Part 3). From Salem'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 Lustige Blätter, 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 Barnard's 1942 yearbook.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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I wonder if she liked her yearbook portrait. From Atlantic Christian's 1974 yearbook.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Here's the real (surprising) reason why heavy cream should go in coffee but liquid butter shouldn't. From a great Top Ten list with only eight items, in Monsters News, 2012.
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Though Wikipedia won't tell you this, " Lavender's Blue," the old English folk song, was the original "[You Say Tomato, I Say To-mah-to,] Let's Call the Whole Thing Off." " Lavender's blue, dilly dilly, lavender's green." Only in the folk song, they don't call the whole thing off just because they can't agree about the color of lavender. Interestingly, the lyrics in the 1670s version began with the colors the other way around: "Lavender's green, diddle, diddle, lavender's blue," so the first rhyme used to be about "you" and not a once or future "queen."
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"There's still another combination." From The Film Daily, 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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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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From Kladderadatsch, 1934.
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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 Southeastern Massachusetts'a 1994 yearbook.
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Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing. Click each image for its source.
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In the 80s, people actually dressed up for Hallowe'en. From Olivet Nazarene'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 Washburn's 1916 yearbook.
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An illustration by Arthur Hughes for Speaking Likenesses (1874).
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Reblog if you're the person on the other side of the wall (not pictured), waiting for whomever that is to go away. From Lustige Blätter, 1919.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Le Journal Amusant, 1911.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Puss in Boots, illustrated by Richard Heighway, 1895.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Memories of college. From College of the Albemarle's 1981 yearbook.
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"What do you say when silent?" From The Link, 1959.
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From Fliegende Blätter, 1923.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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A sort of opposite of a mop wig -- a crate of squeeze sponge mops worn everywhere but on the head. [You may recall that o ur very own mop wig has been ranked in the top 5 of mop wig looks through history, but we're too modest to quote that; no one dons a mop wig to put on airs]. From Lees-McRae's 1969 yearbook.
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We always hear of musicians selling their souls, but it's also conductors, recording engineers, even album cover artists. From Witchcraft and Sorcery, 1973.
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At first glance, we thought he was painting a mustache on the mermaid. From Fliegende Blätter, 1925.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Rising from the eye socket of the skull, a spirit, but also a reaching hand to pull it back down. From Susquehanna's 1926 yearbook.
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A foxtrot from Lustige Blätter, 1919.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From the University of the South's 1993 yearbook.
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From Little Miss Peggy by Mrs. Molesworth and illustrated by Walter Crane, 1887.
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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 Elizabethtown's 1923 yearbook.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Medical College of Virginia's 1930 yearbook.
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From L'Impartial de l'Est, 1904.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1920 yearbook.
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Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing. Click each image for its source.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Severed heads from Salem's 1929 yearbook.
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You knew there had to be a saint of pickles. From Nebelspalter, 1897.
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Great band name for a spooky ensemble: "The Dead Beats." From Olivet Nazarene'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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It's been said that teachers help us to see a brighter future, and that's never truer than for our wizard mentors. From Atlantic Christian's 1985 yearbook.
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How true those words are, even today. "There have been events area residents can't explain." From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1989.
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Our Superior Wizard of Oz Version of a Rolling Stones Song
What's with The Rolling Stones song " Play with Fire"? People outside of London are supposed to relate to what "Stepney" and "Knightsbridge" are? No — those are terrible lyrics. A highly superior context for the song is The Wizard of Oz, which we can prove by offering side-by-side lyrics. You're welcome. (Note: we didn't bother trying to rhyme our wizardly remake of the song. Why give a damn trying to replicate the style of such a poor original? Our version shines brilliantly without any forced rhymes.)
| The Wizard of Oz Version (Superior) |
Original Rolling Stones Version (Stupid) |
| Well, you've got your rubies and you've got your little dog |
Well, you've got your diamonds and you've got your pretty clothes |
| And tornadoes drop you off |
And the chauffeur drives your car |
| You let everybody know |
You let everybody know |
| But don't play with me, or you're flying with monkeys |
But don't play with me, cause you're playing with fire |
| Your auntie she's a farmer, raising goats near witchy-ta |
Your mother she's an heiress, owns a block in Saint John's Wood |
| And your uncle’s under her spell |
And your father'd be there with her |
| Enchanted in toto |
If he only could |
| But don't play with me, or you’re flying with monkeys |
But don't play with me, because you're playing with fire |
| Your wizard asks for broomsticks; his promises hot air |
Your old man took her diamond's and tiaras by the score |
| Now you click your heels on brick roads |
Now she gets her kicks in Stepney |
| Not in Kansas anymore |
Not in Knightsbridge anymore |
| So don't play with me, or you’re flying with monkeys |
So don't play with me, because you're playing with fire |
| Now you walk on rubies and your future’s looking emerald |
Now you've got some diamonds and you will have some others |
But you'd better watch your step, girl
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But you'd better watch your step, girl |
Or there’ll be no place like home
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Or start living with your mother |
So don't play with me, or you’re flying with monkeys
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So don't play with me, cause you're playing with fire |
So don't play with me, or you’re flying with monkeys
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So don't play with me, cause you're playing with fire |
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| I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought |
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"P eople want to feel a sense of what’s normal again" said the ad agency responsible for the band Ratt appearing in a new Geico commercial. If this is the new normal, we've finally slipped into a better parallel universe.
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We suggest "Onions over Vidalia!" to replace "I'll be a monkey's uncle!"
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If the first thing you noticed was the bunny in the window, a rabbit may be your spirit animal. From the University of North Carolina at Charlotte's 1971 yearbook.
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"He'll jauntily haunt you and you'll love it." From The Film Daily, 1945.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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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Today's floating skull is from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1920 yearbook.
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From Le Journal Amusant, 1891.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing. Click each image for its source.
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From Kladderadatsch, 1924.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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An illustration by Wellner. From Lustige Blätter, 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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"Dissecting material was for a time supplied by bodies unearthed" from paupers' graves. From Medical College of Virginia's 1938 yearbook.
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From Pittypat and Tippytoe by Eugene Field, 1896.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"New hope from brain change." From Cavalcade, 1955.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Olivet Nazarene's 1980 yearbook.
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Exotic dainties. From Nebelspalter, 1897.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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 Fliegende Blätter, 1925.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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This photo may be used to open the "perpendicular path" to enlightement/salvation, as explained in Philip K. Dick's Exegesis and the Tibetan Book of the Dead. From the University of North Carolina at Charlotte's 1971 yearbook.
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You've spotted the problem with the affirmation: everything may or may not be okay ... but everything will be OK as in Oklahoma. (Yes, we did a Google search for "Everything will be Oklahoma.") (For 6thSensical.)
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This happens to us, too -- the mask's eye holes don't line up with our eyes. But our rule is to just roll with it, as long as we're not operating heavy machinery. From Lenoir-Rhyne's 1980 yearbook.
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You've heard of "flipping someone the bird" as an "f-you." Here's the bird in question, under the care of Cupid. From Fliegende Blätter, 1925.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"In his dream, he saw the spirits from the graveyard." From Voodoo Island by Michael Duckworth, 1989.
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Never assume anything about a Christian college. From Eastern Nazarene's 1981 yearbook.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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unearths some literary gems.
From The Cursed Canoe, by Frankie Bow:
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[Turnabout Is Fair Play dept.]
"Ma, the Blarney Stone would kiss Molly if it could!" [I.e., Molly is such a liar that she could teach the Blarney Stone a thing or two.]
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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 been said that, in the long run, not confronting one's shadow is even riskier. From Kansas State's 1994 yearbook.
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There are those who call for news photography to return to impressionism. From The Gateway, 1977.
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We find this to be true: "science fiction becomes fact after five." From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1979.
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Some of the most amazing things happen around 9:73 in the morning. Many of us call it "the better part of the day." Photo courtesy of temporal anomaly investigator Dipurinku.
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Stars are a reliable way to add sparkle to your vibe, even if they're merely chalked onto a blackboard. From Guilford's 1966 yearbook.
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From The Film Daily, 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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An autumnal costume from Nebelspalter, 1893.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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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It's been said that "The author should be invisible every step of the way" ( Angela Ackerman). And that includes the title page, apparently. This page is exactly as scanned by Google Books: "The Works of."
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Unfashionable views are yet valid, and in most cases fashionable views are invalid. From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1970.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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An old postcard gifted to me by friends in Wales.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From UCLA's 1974 yearbook.
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An illustration by L. Ehrenberger. From Lustige Blätter, 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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"Some ships go East and others West, / While the selfsame breezes blow; / It's the set of the sails and not the gales / That bids them where to go. / Like the winds of the seas / Are the ways of the Fates, / As we journey on through life; / It's the set of the soul / That determines the goal, / And not the storms and strife." From Salem's 1929 yearbook.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From the University of Cincinnati's 1921 yearbook.
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From Kladderadatsch, 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 the University of the South's 1993 yearbook.
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From Strange Stories, 1942.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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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We double checked, and it's true -- the easiest way to catch mysterious orbs in the air is to reach out toward another person. From the University of North Carolina at Charlotte's 1971 yearbook.
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It's an enduring question: "It's only a movie (isn't it?)" From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1996.
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A miniature spirit double from State Teacher's College, Farmville, Va.'s 1934 yearbook.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Lustige Blätter, 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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At first glance, we thought she was catching a will-o'-the wisp. From Otterbein's 1920 yearbook.
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In the late 1800s, children were taught early that people look like dogs. From Pittypat and Tippytoe by Eugene Field, 1896.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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There's no shame in one's literary path leading toward romances. From the University of Chicago's 1900 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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"There was an ominous darkness on the horizon. Regardless of the ugliness and horrific events that eventually put my sanity over the precipice, I do cherish the memory of this innocent morning" (Thomas Maul, Manila Demon, 2012). This dark sun is from Fort Wayne Bible College's 1956 yearbook.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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It's been said that "whether or not you remember how to solve for x, diagram a sentence or dissect a worm, you never forget your best teachers."
From Lasell's 1961 yearbook.
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Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing. Click each image for its source.
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Shoes offered to spirit or light bodies. From Nebelspalter, 1892.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Watching the television brush its teeth. From St. Patrick's 1957 yearbook.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Kansas State's 1994 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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"What you do on June 23 could affect the rest of your life." From Woroni, 1970.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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 are (you are, you are, you are)."
Note that the Big U may have misheard the lyrics as two one-letter words: "U, R."
The Big U is from Wid's Daily, 1919.
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We encountered and determined the cause of a temporal anomaly in Troy, Alabama. The clock tower of the public library displays the wrong time. As constant investigators of such phenomena, we diagnosed the source of the distortion at a glance. The front window of the library reflects a warping of space, and that warping has shifted the hands of the clock. Though the cause is simple enough, great mysteries yet abound, for precisely why is Troy, Alabama so buckled? Is the fabric of space-time being prodded by the phallic monument in the town square?
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From Der Guckkasten, 1909.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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The caption to this says that the ghost medics make the refreshments (dill pickles, peanut butter sandwiches, and black coco) seem even worse. From Olivet Nazarene's 1959 yearbook. See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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Reblog if you recognize yourself anywhere in this picture. From Lustige Blätter, 1907.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"We are verdant, we are shy, we will get there by and by." From Henderson's 1910 yearbook.
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The mystery of the ghost cow. From Spellbound, 1977. (Courtesy of Archive.org.)
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Double jesters, bells hooked. From Elizabethtown's 1924 yearbook.
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unearths some literary gems.
From Swiss Family Manhattan, by Christopher Morley:
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Although so young, Otto was a persistent arguer; he rarely assented without reservation to anything his brother said, and so often began his sentences with "Yes, but"--which he pronounced Yebbut--that the word had become his nickname.
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"Dictate to me!" she cried at last. "I don't mind dying if I can take dictation."
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[Mannequin dept.]
Like birds of paradise rich millinery idols perched in caves of glass, looked out in a bright fixity of simper.
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I was no longer just the perplexed father of a castaway family and the conscientious breadwinner. I was a thoughtwinner.
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[Things pick up when we meet a Jeremy Edwards female protagonist type called Gazelle(!). (I thought there might be a Giselle in Swiss Family Robinson, which this would be meant as a play on, but I found no evidence of that, so I think "Gazelle" is just pure whimsical aptness.)]
"I am usually the most conventional of men, but circumstances very extraordinary--"
"That's the kind of circumstances I like."
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[Instead of messages in bottles...]
"So I considered," she said, "that in such an emergency it was more than ever desirable for us to get in touch with the more thoughtful class of the inhabitants. I could think of no more certain way of doing so than by throwing out some of your index-cards."
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"O noble hyperbole, said I (addressing the Empire State Building), I will be worthy of thee!
[N.B. The parenthetical there is Morley's, not mine.]
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It boasted "the largest Little Theatre in the world."
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"Voltaire at Ferney, like an electric refrigerator secreting his crystalline cubes of clear reason!"
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Congenially squeezed into Gazelle's yellow car, the Scrambled Egg, we three drove downtown to the address given us.
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[Living Punctuation dept.]
The rising fragrance of Gretchen's admirable grilled kidneys or veal cutlets broiled in Gruyère put a period to my application. [I.e., his work came to a full stop.]
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That is what a philosopher should be, a windshield wiper for humanity.
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[Bonus: The nickname "Moonlight Saving," borne by a minor character who comes to life after dark.]
[Incidentally, I could find no literary evidence of those two dedicatees whom Morley calls "Practitioners of Laughter." Maybe he meant it literally, and they were professional first-night claquers!]
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Reblog if you take the light with you. From Guilford's 1960 yearbook.
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From Le Journal Amusant, 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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One of the most Dali-esque yearbook portraits we've encountered. From Washington College's 1972 yearbook.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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The sit-in was given its walking papers, apparently. From The Martlet, 1968.
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From the University of North Carolina at Charlotte's 1971 yearbook.
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"A ufo lands in every life." From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1980.
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| Who is your favorite imaginary saint? Do share! |
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Here's an account of a library ghost, from Middlebury College Magazine, 1992.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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 Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia's 1932 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 Fliegende Blätter, 1847.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Kladderadatsch, 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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Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing. Click each image for its source.
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Reblog if you've ever had a freaky Friday on Monday. From Cleveland County Technical's 1978 yearbook.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Memories of college. From College of the Albemarle's 1981 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 messiah complex is also known as a Christ complex or savior complex. Be that as it may, this is Mr. Burkholder's official yearbook portrait, from Washington College's 1972 yearbook.
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Q: Are you a wrong number?
A: No, I merely can't be completed as dialed.
From The Martlet, 1969.
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One Weird Trick For Telling If the Second Stanza Got Moved Up
It almost seems impossible, doesn’t it? To know if a song’s second stanza got moved to first place? (Even if there’s linear storytelling in the song, it’s still hard to tell, because the second stanza could swap with the first as a foreshadowing teaser.) But there is one weird trick for knowing with certainty. And I’m now prepared to reveal all (for one can keep important secrets like this only so long before the yearning to share simply becomes unsupportable). The first stanza of a song surely tends to contain the first lines written by the songwriter — the germ, the heart of the song — and that first stanza tends to be the best written, strongest section. The second stanza tends to be filler, compelled by the laws of structure to mirror the first stanza while being slightly different. The second stanza is extraneous at worst, artificial surely, and oh-so-rarely brilliant. The issue is that the listener, not necessarily quite hooked into the song yet, tends to gloss over the first stanza. Horror — for one’s best stanza to go unappreciated! (And damn those catchy choruses for being the only thing most anyone recalls at a moment’s notice! Those gaudy choruses with their feather boas and their flashy sequins. All glitz and glamor, but where’s the substance?) The only hope is to swap stanzas 1 and 2. (If there’s a third stanza, the laws of ultimogeniture dictate that it stay behind and take care of the parents.) Let the weaker second stanza get glossed over, and as listeners find themselves hooked, hit them with the strong first stanza and really blow them away. Unnecessary proof of practice: Ratt’s “Round and Round.”
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"He awaits their return." From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1984.
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From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1920 yearbook.
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People used to dress so modestly when they visited tar beach. By Martin Lewis, 1935, via Ephemeral New York.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Susquehanna's 1950 yearbook.
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The summer fairy. From Montreat's 1947 yearbook.
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From Fliegende Blätter, 1944.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Reblog if your own family reunion includes animals. From Woman's College of Baltimore's 1900 yearbook.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From the University of Cincinnati's 1921 yearbook.
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Recalling the poem "I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud," who better than someone named Fred Cloud to offer advice on loneliness? From The Link, 1962.
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We, too, wear a bag over our head as we search out your favorite posts on the internet. From Greensboro's 1986 yearbook.
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From Kladderadatsch, 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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We checked, and it's actually true! "Life begins at eight thirty." From The Film Daily, 1942.
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Reblog if you, too, are roughly drawn. From Der Bärenspiegel, 1931.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"A world removed." From West Virginia Wesleyan's 1964 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 Atlantic Christian's 1981 yearbook.
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In the late 1800s, children were taught very young the horror of a wolf selling a goat gloves made from the skins of baby goats. From Pittypat and Tippytoe by Eugene Field, 1896.
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From Hampden-Sydney's 1922 yearbook.
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"Those twin devils Pride and Prejudice." From The Link, 1946.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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 Dream' (After Boning on Dante.)" From the University of Chicago's 1900 yearbook.
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A locust's tears over not being able to ride the carousel in the sky. From Nebelspalter, 1899.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Memories of college. From Catawba's 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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Trying to eat the ten-legged "evolution of expression." From Emerson's 1914 yearbook.
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From Lustige Blätter, 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 Tulane's 1939 yearbook.
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From Kladderadatsch, 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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"Sometimes, I’m like a cracked mirror reflecting her own image back at Alice. Usually, this is on her fifth or sixth drink. There is a crack in everything, I realize fleetingly" (Michael Dickel). Photo from Washington College's 1972 yearbook.
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"People will dance for you in banana costume." From something called How to Make Mony [sic] from Fiverr. I guess that's mony as in "Mony Mony" (as sung by Tommy James and the Shondells as well as by Billy Idol).
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Some of the very best things happen at this time. Top photo courtesy of temporal anomaly investigator Jessie Essex, bottom courtesy of TheKarenD.
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Shum's conceptions of the film Scarlet Street. From The Film Daily, 1945.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1979.
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Oscar the ghost has a jack-o'-lantern head. From Atlantic Christian's 1981 yearbook.
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Here's the word "semiantireprophetical" in the wild. From "The Great Hug" by Donald Barthelme, in Folio, Jan, 1976.
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Best serpent fountain we've seen all week. From Millikin's 1925 yearbook.
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"I possess all knowledge!" From Amazing Stories, 1948.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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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"Order of Invisible Stygians. From impenetrable Stygian darkness it belched forth trailing clouds of glory unknown to human kind." From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1920 yearbook. See How to Hoodoo Hack a 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.
Where's the emphasis?
1. Front cover: "MR. PINKERTON AGAIN/!/" (Only the exclamation point is italicized.)
2. "Half-title" page: "Mr. Pinkerton Again!" (Nothing is italicized.)
3. Title page: "Mr. Pinkerton Again!" (Entire subtitle is italicized.)
Also, WHY the emphasis? (Granted, subtitles are sometimes set in italics just for show, or so that they don't feel slighted by being in smaller type.) Why the astonishment? This was book 9 in the series, and at this point (1937) they'd been coming out with great regularity. I'm not sure that anyone would have been surprised at this stage of the game to find that David Frome had written about Mr. Pinkerton AGAIN(!). They might have been more astonished in 1934, when, according to Goodreads, THREE Mr. Pinkerton books were published within the year. However, books 4 through 8 all had Mr. Pinkerton's name in the primary title, so I can understand why they wanted to supplement the Pinkerton-deficient title of #9 with a subtitle that namechecked him. And "Mr. Pinkerton Again!" is more fun than just "A Mr. Pinkerton Book," right? And maybe we're just kind of excited about it. I suppose it might represent the attitude of Pinkerton's co-star, Humphrey Bull. Bull is the Scotland Yard inspector, and Pinkerton is his old civilian friend who is always popping up innocently but intricately in the midst of some tangled mystery that Bull is investigating. So there may be an implied "[Oh no,] Not" in front of "Mr. Pinkerton Again!"
From The Black Envelope, by David Frome:
***In the cinema people in his position usually took it on the lam. He would gladly have done so too, except that he had no clear notion, really, of what the lam was.***[Dr. Johnson Or Just Some Other Dr. Johnson dept.]"[The Brighton Pavilion is] dreadful, isn't it? Dr. Johnson said it looked to him as if St. Paul's had come to Brighton and pupped."[...]"I'm not interested in what your doctors say about anything!" the old lady snapped.[But there's more! Now, a chapter later, a tour guide is doing his spiel.]"Sidney [sic] Smith said it looked as if St. Paul's had come to Brighton and..."[So I did some quotation research on this. Smith is the standard attribution, though I found no evidence of a documented primary source or context for the quip, only people claiming he said it--so he probably didn't. (Incidentally, I also observed that Frome is not the only one who spells Sydney Smith's name wrong.) In any event, I love Frome's sly planting of mutually contradictory attributions among her characters.]***It was best to make haste slowly.[Ah, I see that making haste slowly is a "thing": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festina_lente]***[And this novel, which is set in Brighton and London, ends with a completely unexpected cameo by a proverbial farmer's daughter! Here Mr. Pinkerton, whose understanding of American idioms is limited to what he's been able to glean from the cinema, is speaking with Andy Read, an American friend, about the future of a fortune hunter, Quentin Sellers, who is now destined to work for a living. Pinkerton is sort of jokingly telling Read to tell Sellers that he's seen a suitable position advertised.]"And he hasn't got to have any particular training. Why, they need a traveller in portable water softeners..."Andy Read grinned."OK," he said. "OK for Mr. Sellers, that is.--But what does it make the farmer's daughter?"[And that's the last line of the story! Pinkerton, we are to assume, won't get the "farmer's daughter" allusion because it's presumably an Americanism (and a bit racy for the sheltered Mr. Pinkerton). So we just leave him there puzzling over it!]***
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That is a cat respectable,
Connectable
With selectable
Felines respectable,
Whose names would make you quiver.
That is a cat of piety,
Not satiety,
But sobriety.
Its very purr is of piety
And thanks to its Feline Giver.
—Sinclair Lewis
Photo from Northeastern's 1972 yearbook.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"Why poison your mind?" From Awake magazine, 1961.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"Ours is a strange and unique relationship; you're strange and I'm unique." From Cleveland County Technical's 1978 yearbook.
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From The Sprague Classic Readers, Book One by Sarah E. Sprague, 1903.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"Playing with fire." From The Link, 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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From the University of Chicago's 1900 yearbook.
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"Stranger and stranger." From Cavalcade, 1955.
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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 Henderson's 1910 yearbook.
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From Lustige Blätter, 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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From Mary Washington's 1913 yearbook.
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"The princess finds horns on her head." From Europa's Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John Batten, 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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Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing. Click each image for its source.
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You've seen folks use "they" as a third person pronoun, but it turns out "they" is a second person pronoun. "'They' is you." From The Martlet, 1970.
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"Throw away those headache pills!" From The Film Daily, 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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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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How disappointing! The woman is not herself a dryad but rather is from a town called Dryad. Even so, there's little doubt that actual dryads are looking for Bigfoot creatures. But good luck finding news about it — reporters can't see the tree nymphs for the forest. From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1997.
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Memories of college. From Kansas State's 1984 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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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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 restoration of Virgil Finlay's piece in Worlds of IF, Aug. 1966.
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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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"Subs can't sink God." From The Link, 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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From Fliegende Blätter, 1923.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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 fact-checked this, and it's true -- the years were, indeed. This seemingly incomplete yet grammatically correct phrase is from Concord's 1969 yearbook.
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From Lustige Blätter, 1908.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing. Click each image for its source.
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From Kansas State's 1984 yearbook.
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"She made her bed." From The Film Daily, 1934.
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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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It's simultaneously 10:30 and 2:45 in Gullbringusysla, Iceland. This temporal anomaly was documented by Anthony Stanley, who blamed windy conditions. Though we weren't on location to verify a meteorological cause for the timely weirdness, we spotlight this photo to help hone the insights of would-be investigators of temporal anomalies. The more clocks one sees that are "on the fritz" (Fritz being the German clockmaker who first went "cuckoo"), the better attuned one will be to time warps in the wild.
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At first glance, we thought she had extra arms to handle literary departmental duties. From Montclair's 1920 yearbook.
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From Kladderadatsch, 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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From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1908.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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Not quite sure they were doing it right: "I partied, protested, danced, yelled, cried." From Concord's 1969 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 Pandora Lifts the Lid, by Christopher Morley and Don Marquis:
1. The map on the frontispiece shows an evidently fictitious, Janusesque "Thatcher's Island," whose profile includes two symmetrical peninsulas called West Whisker and East Whisker.
2. The book is dedicated to a *room*: "To Room 515, the Traymore"
3. Among the characters are a pair of twins who are "not only twins, but...facsimiles."
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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 spritesky skipped in glee." From St. Nicholas magazine, March 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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From The Film Daily, 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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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Almanach de Bonne Fortune, 1770.
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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 Lustige Blätter, 1914.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Mary Washington's 1913 yearbook.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Henderson's 1910 yearbook.
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From Kladderadatsch, 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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Printed without any sort of explanation or caption, this is the final page of West Georgia's 1938 yearbook.
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| I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought |
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"Don't give up on quitting!" From The Link, 1973.
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The upside down shot-putter goes unexplained. From Saint Mary's 1915 yearbook.
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That blob of people is a precursor to the Brian Yuzna horror film Society (1989). From Nebelspalter, 1901.
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***** Another masterpiece from the inimitable Professor Oddfellow!
This book is such a gem, every occult temple, Theosophical Parlour, ritual chamber, and seance room is incomplete without it! The detail and historical tidbittery in this is unparalleled by the most thorough of scholars, the Professor stands alone in his weird, unique field. Buy this book! The spirits will thank you! —Holy Mountaineer
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This ad answers its own rhetorical question. "Toboggan or not toboggan? Toboggan, of course!" From The Gatewy, 1971.
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Non-coverage of things that might have happened and that we might never have known about. From The Martlet, 1972.
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From The Film Daily, 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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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination 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 1926 yearbook.
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From Kladderadatsch, 1922.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Memories of college. From Eastern Nazarene's 1967 yearbook.
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From Le Journal Amusant, 1896.
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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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"'Looks pretty weird. Everything's so foggy. Almost like a dream.' 'Yeah, but as you remember, it'll clear up.'" From Atlantic Christian's 1981 yearbook.
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From Nursery Rhymes, illustrated by Claud Lovat Fraser, 1922.
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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 sounds like a gross generalization, but it's still true that "everybody fishes in Hawaii." From The Link, 1953.
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Reblog if your social life is a game board. From Montclair'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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"It is now time to see, for the end lurks ominously about; around every corner, in empty closets." From Elon'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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From Mars Hill's 1983 yearbook.
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From Fliegende Blätter, 1928.
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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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"People are happy ... Some sucking their thumbs." From The Martlet, 1967.
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We've had nights like the night of June 13. From The Film Daily, 1932.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Der Bärenspiegel, 1929.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Duke's 1991 yearbook.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Mansfield's 1922 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 William and Mary's 1951 yearbook.
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Space tourists watch the end of the world. From Lustige Blätter, 1918.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Memories of college. From Kansas State's 1981 yearbook.
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From Kladderadatsch, 1933.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Purdue's 1892 yearbook.
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Life is queer. From The Judge, 1920.
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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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"Why love asks you to wait." From The Link, 1963.
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From Holy Cross College's 1907 yearbook.
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Are you a night owl or an early bird? From Observer Magazine, 1990.
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sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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We suspect that the reason certain cures haven't gained popularity is that many folks would prefer not to enter moonlit graveyards. They keep their warts, and ghosts stay hungry. From The Film Daily, 1938.
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We encountered a mysterious temporal anomaly in Blowing Rock, North Carolina. The town clock was an hour and 26 minutes off. As constant investigators of such phenomena, we sought to diagnose the source of the problem, but to date this anomaly remains unsolved.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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May this photo transport you to a land of pink light blossoms. From Valdosta's 1981 yearbook.
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Here's a precursor to The Fly. From Lustige Blätter, 1918.
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From Mary Washington'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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Here's a portrait of every oncoming driver. From Der Guckkasten, 1909.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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A pincushion is a horror to balloon people. From The Wonderful Land of Up by Olive Roberts Barton and illustrated by Neely McCoy, 1918.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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 mule that led to death." From Cavalcade, 1955.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Fliegende Blätter, 1925.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"God made not anything at all so beautiful as words." —Anna Hempstead Branch.
From Taylor's 1963 yearbook.
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unearths some literary gems.
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[I believe this is our second encounter with a French "Mr. Somebody." (I don't think the previous one was from this same author, though I could be wrong.) The genericized gentilhomme in the dialogue below is a rhetorical straw man running a hypothetical correspondence course in hairdressing. And no extra charge for an Uncle Bob!]
"Send five guineas to Monsieur Whatsit, and Bob's your Uncle!"
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"She gave me the sort of look that novelists call 'withering,' and I thought her nose was going to coincide with her chin."
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Perhaps later he might make the effort to stroll as far as San Zanipolo....Perhaps he might make his way to one of those other squares....Perhaps he would hire a gondola, and go to sleep. Most likely he would do none of these things. It was enough for Humphrey to know that he could do them if he would.
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[Eating Someone Else's Hat dept.]
If those two aren't suddenly mortally afraid, thought Pellew, I'll eat George Cartwright's hat.
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[Yes, the semicolon does help. Nonetheless, I confess I got an accordion-playing dachshund on my first trip through this sentence! (:v>]
He cherished a long-haired dachshund, which never left his side; and would frequently enliven his periods of duty on the bridge by playing gently on an accordion.
***
Bonuses:
"the susurrus of sandals"
a character named Francis Pinecoffin
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"Honest people bedeviled by [UFO] sightings." From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1996.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"People are wrong ... Misguided efforts." From The Martlet, 1967.
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INSTRUCTIONS: Click to reveal the other half of the headline. From Elmhurst's 1940 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 1895, reproduced in Nebelspalter, 1958.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Memories of college. From Eastern Nazarene's 1967 yearbook.
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From Kladderadatsch, 1922.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Richmond Professional Institute's 1944 yearbook.
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An illustration by Carl D. Petersen. From Lustige Blätter, 1918.
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`-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' ` "The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News |
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A rotatable happy-sad face from Henderson's 1910 yearbook.
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From West Virginia's 1923 yearbook.
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Memories of college. From Eastern Nazarene's 1973 yearbook.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Buchtel College's 1918 yearbook.
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From Northeastern Illinois' 1968 yearbook.
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| Who is your favorite imaginary saint? Do share! |
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Good news for the low-born: "high society is found lacking." From The Gateway, 1978.
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"You can't take it with you." From The Film Daily, 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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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Two factors make this a surprising gag: (1) nobody expects someone to deliberately provoke a messy situation in public, and (2) alcoholics daren't imagine wine being "wasted." Heads will explode!
From Kansas State's 1984 yearbook.
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You've heard about getting blood from a turnip, but you can also get guts from an onion. From Woroni, 1969.
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"There's happiness ahead, ma'am, if you don't miss the net." From The Film Daily, 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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From Der Guckkasten, 1909.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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The harassment of dandy duckies. From William and Mary's 1914 yearbook.
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Christian Waller’s "The Spirit Of Light," 1932 (via ArtBlart).
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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An illustration by Trier. From Lustige Blätter, 1918.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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She's apparently using her braided hair as a pendulum to find the love of her life. "We're getting closer." From Eastern Carolina's 1947 yearbook.
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From Kladderadatsch, 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 St. Nicholas magazine, March 1917.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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What we call a book's "spine" is actually its face. From Lenoir-Rhyne's 1915 yearbook.
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From Worlds of If, Feb. 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 The Film Daily, 1924.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Old calculators were enormous, and the adding machines that preceded them were massive. From Unknown, 1942.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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 simultaneously 6:15 and 8:40 at this clock tower in Santa Ana, documented by Richard Habeck at 6:56. Though we weren't on location to discover the exact cause of the timely weirdness, we spotlight this photo to help hone the insights of would-be investigators of temporal anomalies. The more clocks one sees that are "on the fritz" (Fritz being the German clockmaker who first went "cuckoo"), the better attuned one will be to time warps in the wild.
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"Nick looked at Jim, his face full of yearning, sorrow, and pleading. He spoke, not in a human voice, but a message from his spirit. 'There's only one life, Jim, and it's eternity.'" From Photoplay Magazine, 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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There's no explanation as to why he has a tiny face between his eyes. From Tennessee Wesleyan's 1976 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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"Nobody is perfect. Each one of us is a mixture of good qualities and some perhaps not-so-good qualities." From Western Piedmont's 1978 yearbook.
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From Fliegende Blätter, 1847.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Kladderadatsch, 1922.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Dedicated to those who would not pose. From Lasell's 1982 yearbook.
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unearths some literary gems.
[Sure, law-practice-partner-name humor is old hat, but I like the way the "Lenley, Thompson, Dixon and Lenley" gags roll out here.]
"It has something to do with a client of ours..."
"Of ours?"
"Lenley, Thompson, Dixon and Lenley."
"Oh."
[...]
"Are you a good lawyer?" she asked.
"I don't know. Lenley, Thompson, Dixon..."
"And Lenley?"
[A little later]
For the first time in his life he felt stirred to send a post card, perhaps even four, one to each Lenley, one to Thompson, one to Dixon.
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The party zoomed through the evening and, at one in the morning, it collapsed like a tired tent.
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[The protagonist is speaking to a mysterious person in a dark corridor.]
"Who is it?"
A voice whispered back. "Elsa Maxwell."
He wasn't certain he had heard correctly. "Who?" he said again.
"Dr. Spock," the whisper said.
Brady laughed. "Anybody else?"
"The Rhythm Boys. Won't you join us?"
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"What is this, please?"
"The Illumination. We have it every year."
"I don't blame you," Zita said.
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"Clear your throat, speak up! What? What did you say?"
"Nothing, sir. I was clearing my throat."
[...]
"Where?"
"Menemsha."
"Are you clearing your throat again, Smith?"
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She seemed...like something out of Ibsen, sensationalized by Elia Kazan.
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"There's nothing like seeing a man fall into a swimming pool to bring a girl to her senses."
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It's true that the very act of getting dressed can be wrought with suspense. From The Film Daily, 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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"UFO puzzle pieces hidden." From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1984.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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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"Time will tell. This one year has told us one thing." From Eastern Carolina's 1947 yearbook.
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Our restoration of an ad in Stoutonia, 1979.
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From Lustige Blätter, 1918.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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 is the first? Some day next month." From The Judge, 1922.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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If history gives you a headache, this might explain it. From Presbyterian College's 1930 yearbook.
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From Costumes and Scenery for Amateurs by Constance D'Archy Mackay, 1915.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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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"Well, hello there! We have news for you." It's one of the most sincere headlines we've ever encountered. From American University's 1963 yearbook.
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From Kladderadatsch, 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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From Phoenix College's 1953 yearbook.
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From L'Impartial de l'Est, 1904.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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This explains some buffets we've been to. "Lost & found articles, tonight at dinner." From Chatham's 1971 yearbook.
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"Don't come in — I'm dying (I'm spaced)." From Tulane's 1978 yearbook.
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"I'm throwing away the scissors!" With gusto. From The Film Daily, 1937.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Today's teddy bear riding a vulture is from Der Bärenspiegel, 1935.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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I wonder if he liked his yearbook portrait. From Butler's 1945 yearbook.
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The alcohol devil. From Nebelspalter, 1901.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"This is a posed picture." From Colorado College's 1977 yearbook.
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From Der Guckkasten, 1909.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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These are faculty members. Note that the man in the middle has a witch eye (the eye to our left). From Olivet Nazarene's 1959 yearbook. See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.Here's our video in which we see our own witch eye in a haunted mirror.
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From L'Impartial de l'Est, 1904.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Wake Forest's 1993 yearbook.
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From Lustige Blätter, 1918.
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From the University of Michigan's 1910 yearbook.
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"Another old friend comes to the shadows." From Motion Picture Magazine, 1922.
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From Birmingham-Southern's 1982 yearbook.
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How to reshape a time frame and get safely outside it. A detail from a comic strip in The Martlet, 1977.
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"Of all the screen's great stories of human love and sacrifice ... This isn't it!" An ad for the Marx Bros.' Room Service. From The Film Daily, 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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INSTRUCTIONS: Click to shift time. From Union College's 1946 yearbook. 
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From Fliegende Blätter, 1925.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From East Carolina's 1934 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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Androcles and the lion. From Europa's Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John Batten, 1916.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"Voicing protest into a universal looking glass." This yearbook will sound impressive only to junkies from the 70s. From Lenoir-Rhyne's 1973 yearbook.
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From Lustige Blätter, 1918.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"Haven for small wild." From Eastern Kentucky's 1973 yearbook.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Reblog if your entire life has changed in five minutes. From Startling Stories, 1948.
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From Montclair's 1920 yearbook.
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From the University of Michigan's 1910 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 Birmingham-Southern's 1982 yearbook.
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The cat who visualizes world peace. From Woroni, 1993.
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This is the same model of hat we wear while preparing our posts, to ensure that we remain your favorite blogger on the internet. From UNC Asheville's 1974 yearbook.
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From The Film Daily, 1924.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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unearths some literary gems.
"I was reading and watching television and I fell asleep and I dreamed that I was reading and watching television."
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Why this particular ordering of the seasons: autumn, winter, spring, summer? In the universe of universities, the year begins in the autumn. We began our own college career in the spring, and our body clock has been "off" ever since.
From Elizabethtown's 1966 yearbook.
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Our custom Uncanny Detector app overheated after identifying six ghosts and otherworldly entities dancing in this photo. Can you spot six or more anomalies? From Butler's 1971 yearbook.
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From Fliegende Blätter, 1848.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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 thought at first glance a petite sheet ghost was dancing above a shindig. Then we realized it wasn't a sheet ghost, but that didn't help our understanding. From Stephen F. Austin's 1957 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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"Or shall truer songs stir us and this time pass away?" From West Georgia's 1973 yearbook.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Sheet ghosts abhor cutesy tooth fairy costumes. From Anderson's 1989 yearbook.
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"Dinos not extinct." From The Gateway, 1979.
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It's been said, "Without administrators, no administration." Here's administrator Betty Magee, from the 1986 Ole Miss yearbook.
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"Legendary beasts creep, slither in [Arkansas'] forests and waters." From UFO Newsclipping Service, 2003.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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What's he reading? It's a book of cartoons, Group Therapy by Lou Myers. From National-Louis' 1968 yearbook.
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What better subject for cubism than a box-er? From Cine-Mundial, 1927.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From the gloomy side to the sunny side, in the University of Michigan's 1910 yearbook.
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From Kladderadatsch, 1932.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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You'd think he was playing Dracula in a theatrical production, but given the occult nature of college yearbooks, we've learned to make no assumptions. From Lambuth 's 1983 yearbook. See How to Hoodoo Hack a 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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Yep, some years are like that. From York'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 Lustige Blätter, 1906.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Le Courrier Français, 1885.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Washington State's 1922 yearbook.
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From Krasnyi Smekh, 1906.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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For years we've documented folks disguised as Christmas trees, but this one is more properly "Disguised as a Christmas tree ornament." From Morris Harvey's 1970 yearbook.
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Terrible news! "Time does not heal all wounds." From The Gateway, 1979.
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It's been said that sports hooliganism comes down to a fear of death and that "fan riots are sparked by terrible insights that the Grim Reaper is winning" (Mary Pilon). Here's Dr. Death on the field, from Birmingham-Southern's 1982 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 sentiment from an administrator we will never forget: "We are all different, but we all have the same heart."
The administrator pictured here (we don't know his particular pet slogan) is from the 1986 Ole Miss 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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Today's architectural teapot is from Kosa, 1906.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Perhaps this puts a lump in your throat, too. Usually, one finds musical birds on the lines of a music staff, as if they're perching on telephone wires. But here's what happened to the birds. From Lenoir-Rhyne's 1915 yearbook.
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The black hole explorer, from The Game of Life by Timothy Leary, 1993 (courtesy of Archive.org).
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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One of the many hats we wear while writing our unadulterated lameness (in honor of Teresa). From Susquehanna's 1906 yearbook.
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From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1907.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Reblog if you're backward, too. From Anderson'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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Here's a precursor to the film Repo Man. (I do wonder if that tree is still glowing. Probably so.) From Bryan's 1982 yearbook.
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Victor Hugo's salad days. From Le Grelot, 1871.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Lustige Blätter, 1914.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Learning perhaps ought to quit sleeping and snoring so as to grasp how to properly pluralize "library." From National-Louis' 1969 yearbook.
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We sprinkle digestive enzymes down our toilet to prevent this very sort of thing. From Woroni, 1993.
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The clarinet isn't all wop wop shoo be do be do be do be do be do be bop bam bam do wop pop blam. From Washington College's 1971 yearbook.
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Leave it to a fear-mongering sensationalist to ask "Is everybody happy?" From The Gateway, 1979.
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"He sends his mind forth in all directions." From Tennessee Wesleyan's 1973 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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Modeling One’s Life After Dark Shadows: Studiedly Stoddard
A significant contribution to the
burgeoning field of Stoddard studies.
Tips on how to conduct oneself, based upon the character of Elizabeth Collins Stoddard:
- Always look your best, even if your husband isn’t buried in the basement.
- Plant your feet firm on the deck when a gale blows. Hold your head up high and damn the devil, because you don’t know how to run scared.
- To clarify what you have heard and slow down the episodes of your life, repeat the last word spoken by whomever is talking to you. For example: “How are you today?” “Today?”
- Do your hair very high, and add a bow most of the time.
- Say you don’t care about money, but if anyone tries to take yours, hit him in the head with a poker.
- Your makeup matters, even if your wrinkled lips smear the lipstick. It will matter more once you go to color.
- Hold back your tears. Choke back your emotion. Crying reveals your weakness, and no head of a cannery can afford emotion. Think of the dead fish you have to put out of your mind every day. If overwhelmed by feeling, let one or two tears escape, and dab them away delicately with a lace hanky. Loud sobbing is okay if alone in your room late at night, or when in the locked basement room.
- Write your death date in the family Bible in pencil or erasable ink. You never know, do you?
- Wear a tasteful suit or dress, though you will not go out. You never know who will need to speak to you in the drawing room.
- Practice social distancing: work from home, limit guests to two at a time, and isolate them in the drawing room.
- Almost always, face the open window, your back to the guest, assuring fresh air.
- Always add the family jewels. Pearls or a brooch, or both. Think Queen Elizabeth without the purse.
- Speaking to people, always say, “I need to speak with you.” This sets them on edge, giving you an advantage as they contemplate the cause of your need. Then, ask them to step into the drawing room. Close the doors. You have thus taken command of both space and time and lent importance to even the simplest statement. Then say, "Thank you, but I don’t wish to discuss it.” They are completely at your mercy, having no idea what just happened.
- Always maintain that your marriage was one of the worst mistakes in your life.
- The cue you’re looking for may be outside the drawing room window.
- Keep yourself separate from the town. Class distinctions are important. Granted, the occasional trip to the jail to bail out your daughter will be required, but never, ever, enter The Blue Whale. The dancing is atrocious.
- Never hand over the key you keep on a chain around your neck.
- It helps to have a narrator summarize your day as you begin each new one. It cuts through a lot of doubt as to what happened yesterday. And a diary takes a lot of time. Be aware that the narrator may change, affecting your day.
- Prohibit anyone from loitering near the locked room in the basement.
- Secure some lacy bed jackets. A full robe is so cumbersome when you are being served tea in bed.
- Plan for a bell to be installed in your mausoleum just in case you’re buried alive.
- Always avoid the question.
- Try to read only family genealogy, the occasional magazine, or newspaper headlines (but only when a close friend has disappeared).
- Decline sherry if it is offered, unless it is the only thing to keep you from fainting.
- There is dignity in defending one’s house guests to the death.
- Allow only one person to informally call you ‘Liz.’ That is Roger, your brother, but even he should reserve such casual address for the most intimate situations. Only answer to Mrs. Stoddard. Even to yourself.
- Be tortured by the presence of death. Others can’t see it, of course, but if they look into your eyes, they’ll know that you, somehow, can see it.
- Stay fit by strolling to Widow’s Walk. Do not go there if you are feeling dizzy.
- When you don’t know what to say, scan the room for a prompt. It gives you a desperate look and buys time for your response.
- Remind younger siblings and staff that you are the matriarch. Collinwood (or your address) belongs to you. You are in control until little David (or your own male heir) comes of age.
- Limit phones in the house to two. Place them within feet of each other. No need to take calls when you are trying to rest. The ghostly widows calling you to your death are enough disturbance at night.
- Hands should be kept at your center, lightly clasped, or folded. This communicates your resolve to take no action of any kind in any situation. Neutrality and inaction equal power and class.
- If you don’t want people to know you are menopausal, avoid opening and closing windows during storms and while there is a fire in the fireplace. It’s a dead giveaway you are having hot flashes.
- Most importantly, whatever it is, don’t talk about it. Especially not over the phone. Or if it’s late. But it you must, always go into the drawing room and close the doors. For God’s sake, not the hall!
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Lots of great books here that should exist outside the illustration:
One Million Candy Recipes
Waffles and Their Ways
Ice Cream: Hot or Cold
How to Know Beans
Dates and How to Keep Them
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"An empty pool." From The Film Daily, 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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unearths some literary gems.
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[No sentiment wasted on the minor characters in the final wrap-up.]
What happened to Fanny East and James Arbuthnot history tells not, nor cares.
[Ouch!]
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"Does your hobby hobble you?" Not if it involves springs! From Awake magazine, 1961.
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A "six-days-a-week" eye looks toward pennies on the ground, and a "seventh-day" eye looks toward Heaven. From The Dogs and the Fleas by Frederic Scrimshaw, 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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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Faced with a camera they don't say "Cheese" but rather "Zzzz's" -- the worshippers of Morpheus. From Anderson's 1915 yearbook.
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Here's a precursor to the projections of John Waters, "the pope of trash." It's the debri[s]-o-scope. From Purdue's 1908 yearbook.
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From Kladderadatsch, 1926.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Darkness fills the very first page of the Four Oaks yearbook of 1966. But is it any wonder, considering the dark figure of the administrator? See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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The kids aren't taught this anymore. From Rend Lake's 1977 yearbook.
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From The American Legion Weekly, 1922.
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You've heard the great question from The Sound of Music, "How do you solve a problem like Maria? How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?" It's actually not that difficult. From the University of the South's 1976 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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It used to be, "Keep five books apart" to prevent the spread of cooties, but now nobody reads. From Berea's 1968 yearbook.
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How true those words are, even today. "Fictitious candidates win phony election." From The Gateway, 1974.
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What's interesting is that every audience has one of these, though not everyone notices. From Eastern Nazarene's 1976 yearbook.
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Based upon this headline, the end of the world will stem not from the failures of capitalism but of capitalization. From Woroni, 1991.
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"Enough to make a cat laugh." From The Film Daily, 1924.
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From Longwood'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 Washington College's 1981 yearbook.
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Here's our restoration of this piece by Virgil Finlay in Worlds of IF, May 1963.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From High Frontiers, 1984.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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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"Capricious silence, violating the womb of futurity." Alas, this college didn't teach not to write outside one's vocabulary capability. Also, this is a yearbook on drugs. From Lenoir-Rhyne's 1973 yearbook.
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The bellman wishes that "Mercy secure ye all and keep the goblin from you while you sleep." From The Judge, 1913.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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 ghost still haunting the William and Mary yearbook of 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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