CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, a “monk for the modern age” by George Parker, and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh. An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com.
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July 31, 2018

Hindpsych: Erstwhile Conjectures by the Sometime Augur of Yore (permalink)
Pictured, we're listening to the whispers of a standing stone at Portmeirion, Wales, part of our research for the Tarot of Portmeirion deck and book.  We're delighted by a new review of that project:

The Trump L’Oeil Tarot of Portmeirion is an exciting Tarot experiment that cannot be missed in your deck collection. It’s an invitation to delve into those elements that day by day challenge us to think about the coincidences that manifest the archetypal energy contained in the world of men. Do you dare to find the archetypes that govern your life? You can see them in Portmeirion, that’s for sure.

Here are some additional snippets from the insightful review:

Any tarot deck is a journey, but Trump L’Oeil Tarot of Portmeirion represents an adventure of multiple nuances and layers. In this card set, you will find a photographic trip through the streets of Portmeirion, a small but very peculiar Village located in the north of Wales. ...

Craig Conley, the author of Trump L’Oeil, is a multifaceted artistic documentarian, with a passion for literature, arts, photography and, of course, Portmeirion. Conley is dedicated to spiritual growth, transformation, and study from the most diverse perspectives.  In some sense, his personality is as baroque as that of Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, the visionary who built Portmeirion. With great achievements in the world of music and technology, this hard working artist was captivated by the charm of Portmeirion village and fell into the psychic spell of the archetypes that abound in its streets. ...

Walking through Portmeirion inch by inch we will find those little miracles of the collective unconscious that let us glimpse the depth of Jung’s research. Each corner holds a powerful relic that immediately takes us back to think about a Major trump and its important guidance towards personal enrichment.  The statue of a cherub on the verge of falling from a cliff is one of the most touching and impressive interpretations that we can confer to the Fool Major Trump. Usually portrayed as an older man being chased by the intuitive dog that protects him, we can easily connect with the erratic energy of this little angel who sloppily throws himself into the world of mortals in a decision that could change his life, isn’t that a perfect analogy for our dear Fool?  Of course, the Magician cannot be other than Sir Williams-Ellis, the alchemist who took all the elements at his disposal during a construction and reconstruction process that took him 50 years to complete. The minor Trumps are symbolized in relation to the elements with which they have traditionally been associated.

See the full review here.  The deck is also available at GameCrafter.  Look inside the book over at Amazon.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if this is the cause of your own bad hair days.  From Nebelspalter, 1958.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Case of the Glamorous Ghost, by Erle Stanley Gardner:

***

[Hypothetical American travelers who smuggle jewels in from Europe.]

"Suppose Mrs. Rearbumper smuggles in a ten-thousand-dollar diamond."

[and]

"Let's suppose that John K. Bigshot, a big gem importer, has worked out a pretty good system of smuggling in a lot of gems at a clip."

***

[Bonus: A residential building called the Titterington Apartments.]

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Something stirred in the shadows behind the angel." —Mary Downing Hahn, Deep and Dark and Dangerous
Our illustration is from Le Coup de Fouet, 1912.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I propose that we, as human beings, should hold some authority over this force of nature. If death is an angel, we should be able to tell him, 'No. Don't feel like dying today.' And he should have to listen." —Nerdcore Astrotypes
Our illustration of the angels of death (one green, one brown) is from L'Assiette au Beurre, 1908.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's an unusual opportunity to be a hero and save a cartoon character from falling to his death by turning the page upside down.  From The Judge, 1920.
Click the image to turn it upside down.


Do Him a Friendly Turn
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #dragon #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's a snake with skull-skin (from Kladderadatsch, 1929), but we also encountered a skull with snakeskin.
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#vintage illustration #angel #serpent #snake #skulls #constrictor #peace angel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Talking heads.  From Over the Hookah by George Frank Lydston, 1896.
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#religion #vintage illustration #severed heads #talking heads #worship #decapitated #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #sculpture #long legs #art museum
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #frog #dancing #squirrel #illustration #dancing animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #cannon #war and peace #illustration #bottle
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Dances With Wolves.  From Celtic Fairy Tales, selected by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John D. Batten, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #wolf #illustration #dances with wolves
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1936.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #snowman #cherub #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #meter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spirit #spiritualism #seance
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #cow #illustration #milk cow
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to "going green."  From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #weird car #vegetable car #automobile #going green #green energy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The pig-headed woman displays the dark center of the heart.  From Al'manakh, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #heart #pig headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.  See How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #hybrid #cat headed #cat portrait #cat artist
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July 30, 2018

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
Here are my secrets for landing a major book deal, even if you don't have a best-selling idea, weren't born into the right families, and don't work very hard: https://youtu.be/GuvJpPTawGs
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Harvey Ball's smiley face design of 1963 -- a tear of joy from Nebelspalter, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #smiley face #tear of joy #smiley
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Coup de Fouet, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #angel #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #serpent #keyhole #garden of eden #eve #fig leaf #peeping
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Baïonnette, 1917.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #horse costume #set designer #theatrical #costumer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #scythe #illustration #giant car
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1928.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #rocket car
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Book of Famous Fairy Tales, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #fairy tale #illustration #fairy of the meadows
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Jugend, 1928.
* Our printed collection of vintage nautical postcards is entitled Your Ship Will Come In and is available from Amazon.com.
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#vintage illustration #tall ship #giantess #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The shrieking woman of Marblehead."  From Legends and Superstitions of the Sea and of Sailors, 1885.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spirit #illustration #shrieking woman #marblehead
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Castle of Grumpy Grouch by Mary Dickerson Donahe, 1908.

[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #witch #black cat #fairy tale #cauldron #animal familiar #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #priest #brain #catholic priest #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Popular Mechanics, 1909.
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#vintage photo #trick photography #giant vegetable #giant cabbage
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1908.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #transformation #snail #vintage car #car
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #death #mortality #grim reaper #sheet ghost
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #haunted painting #1900s #cursed #cursed image #haunted art #cursed art #scary #frightening
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Buket, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #angel #spirit #goddess #power of prayer #praying
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Neither Saint- Nor Sophist-Led (permalink)
The patron saint of indigestion.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1893.
Who is your favorite imaginary saint?  Do share!
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#vintage illustration #saint #indigestion #throwing up #upset stomach #vomiting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #demon
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1908.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #deity #weather god #hail
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July 29, 2018

The Right Word (permalink)
In this pairing of quotations, we learn that every act of reading is either aporetic or a palimpsest (or both?).
Every act of reading is an act of forgetting: the experience of reading is a palimpsest, in which each text partially covers those that came before.  Those books that allow us to forget the most are accorded the authority of the classic.
—James A. Second, Victorian Sensation
Every act of reading is when memory and forgetting collide: every act of reading is aporetic, as one has to both remember and forget at the same time.  Each time reading occurs, one is not just reading the text for the first time, but also reading for the first time.
—Jeremy Fernando, Reading Blindly
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
A pendulum can tell whether you should have that drink.  From Lustige Blätter, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #beer #occult #drinking #pendulum #alcohol
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The end of the stick seemed to melt."  From The Great Stone of Sardis by Frank Richard Stockton, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #weird science #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's worn out hobby horses are from L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #giant #hobby horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #vintage car #car #sleeper car #car bed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1954.
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#vintage illustration #tiny man #painter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #night #alchemist #bioluminescence #glowing flower
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #pegasus #winged horse #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1930.  See How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#vintage illustration #ghosts #hybrid #human headed #illustration #ghost cat
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From 1909.  Courtesy of UpNorthMemories.
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#vintage postcard #giant onion #onions #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #severed head #decapitated #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #cherub #seesaw #illustration
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Colorful Allusions (permalink)
Ireland as the threshold of the Otherworld, by Cornelius Weygandt, in The Sewanee Review, 1904.
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#otherworld #irish folklore #ireland #irish literature
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The young Englishman."  From Arabian Days' Entertainments by Wilhelm Hauff, 1858.
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#vintage illustration #handstand #illustration #englishman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #pumpkin head #vegetable people
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1905.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #merman #under the sea #rude awakening #catfish
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This is a method for keeping museum-goers a proper distance from the artwork.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #museum #don't touch #keep off the art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Canard Sauvage, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #animal headed #hybrid #donkey headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #devil #money bag #gambling #playing cards #gold #1900s #bag of gold
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Good Gracious, Annabelle by Clare Kummer:

***

"And don't get a gardener that looks like Bernard Shaw."

***

ETHEL: Here, let me read it. [...] "I am returning the portrait of my husband--I would not have such a looking thing in the house--"

JENNINGS: But she has him in the house.

***

ANNABELLE: How did it ever get to be ten o'clock?

LOTTIE: Well, it does, you know, just about this time every morning.

***

LOTTIE: Do you believe in zoology? What the stars tell?

***

[Jennings is trying to recite his poetry to Gwendolyn, but Lottie is a distraction.]

JENNINGS

Dawn!

Changing to gold and blue--

Ever changing, like a dancer--

On whom the lights are thrown.

Dawn with wistful shadows---- [That's a double em dash there, I guess to add the dash of interruption to the end-of-line dash.]

LOTTIE

Dawn with whiskers!

***

ANNABELLE: Didn't think you would mind. I thought you were asleep.

WIMBLEDON: I mind things in my sleep.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #pan #pan pipes #goat legged #shepherd #goats
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July 28, 2018

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Orson Welles being reduced to making wine commercials.  From Lustige Blätter, 1914.  Previously, we saw this other precursor to Orson Welles' wine ads.
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#vintage illustration #orson welles #wine #crying #alcohol #sad drunk
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #horror #severed head
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #giant
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1928.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #haunted #faces in things #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Harry's Big Boots, written and illustrated by S. E. Gay, 1873.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #elf #fairy tale #castle #tiny man #fairy castle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The might of Ikeno Shoji.  From Tales of the Samurai, Oguri Hangwan Ichidaiki by James S. De Benneville, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #japanese art #horse #samurai #japan #ladder #strength
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #blood on the hands
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Book of Famous Fairy Tales, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #fairy tale #butterfly #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #father time #goat #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Dayspring, 1876.
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#vintage illustration #blowing bubbles #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Beautiful, gloriously beautiful in her strange, weird, dark beauty."  From A Fool There Was by Porter Emerson Browne, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #strange beauty #weird beauty #dark beauty #woman #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A warm welcome.  From Jugend, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #satan #illustration #welcome to hell #art
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the 1964 dance craze "The Swim."  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #seaside #swimming #breaststroke #do the swim
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1954.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #pitchfork #crocodile #giant shoe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
You've heard of (pardon the phrase) "toilet books," but editors of such books actually sit on toilets as they work.  From Lustige Blätter, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #censor #toilet #editor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #father time #spring #personification #old man winter #seasons
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Bloomin' onion domes.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #russia #architecture #onion dome #russian architecture #blooming onion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Canard Sauvage, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #eagle #mythology #carried away #1900s #taken by animals #ganymede #giant eagle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Just as some horsemen are mistaken for centaurs, some cherubs on horses are mistaken for Pegasus.  From Lustige Blätter, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #cherub #horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #disease #cholera #tsar
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Judge, 1920: "Behold the hole in the doughnut!  It remains the centre of distraction and you can't swallow it, hide it or give it away.  It's only a little thing but before it will give up, a man many times its size has to take off his shirt before he can make it let go."
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#donut hole #doughnut hole
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July 27, 2018

What I Now Know (permalink)
"I think about what I now know, which may not seem like a lot, but is like an ocean full of new information compared to what I knew before."
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #hearse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #anthropomorphism #cat #dancing #cats #dancing animal
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Suicide Excepted, by Cyril Hare:

***

[Alternatives to Timbuktu dept.]

He had liked the man at the time, but just now, as he smiled and nodded, he could have wished him in Jericho.

***

His round red face shone with unction--if that is the proper word for clerical perspiration.

***

"...your only interest in upsetting this verdict is..." [first ellipsis mine; second ellipsis the author's]

But Anne did not wait for the end of her brother's carefully polished period.

[Later]

He read it to the end, and then cut Martin's periods short with an excited exclamation.

***

He looked rather as an amateur conjuror must look who has successfully produced a rabbit from his hat and is wondering where on earth to put the animal.

***

"This is something like, Mr. Dickinson," he repeated several times, rubbing his beefy hands together. "This is something like!"

He did not specify what it was like....

***

The address was a joke, then. Ha, Ha! Let's have a good laugh, even if we can't see it just yet. Fifteen, very funny. Parbury, an absolute scream. Gardens, we all roared!

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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
Uncle Sam as a perverse weather baron who brings a wintery day to midsummer.  From The Judge, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #uncle sam #winter #weather #unseasonable
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This one is hard to make out at first glance.  A bridge is falling apart in the middle of the image.  There's a river monster, and look for faces in the towers.  From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #monster #end of the world #illustration #devastation
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Love and death.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #love and death #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to inverse the powers. From Kladderadatsch, 1932.

From Kladderadatsch, 1932
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#vintage illustration #sword #feather #war and peace #illustration #gif
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Every day, every hour, every minute, acid-mouth."  From The Saturday Evening Post, 1919.
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#vintage ad #acid mouth #acidity #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Altemus' Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, 1898.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Oh! Dear!  What can the matter be?"  From Coridon's Song, and Other Verses from Various Sources, 1904.
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to "Crocodile Rock."  From Jugend, 1907.
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1937.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lob Lie-By-the-Fire by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #witch #witchcraft #broomstick #fairy tale #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #architecture #faces in things #illustration #modern architecture
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precusor to the Momus song "His Majesty the Baby."  This crowned specimen is from L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #crown #fetus #specimen bottle #specimen jar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1954.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He who seriously wishes to see the Devil has but to summon him with his whole heart, and he will come."  From The Strand, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #devil #occult #grimoire #illustration #summoning the devil
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #seance
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precurosr to some pulp magazine covers.  From Bureval, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #bats #vampire bat #1900s #homoerotic #pulp magazine #men's magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Cholera as a teetotaler.  From Le Courrier Français, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #alcohol #disease #cholera
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July 26, 2018

A Fine Line Between... (permalink)
From Boloto, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #faces #before and after #blemishes #complexion #spots #acne #here's looking at you #ad
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Precursors (permalink)
A century ago, too, the untrustworthy press was teetering on a tidal wave of its own making.  From Lustige Blätter, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #tsunami #tidal wave #ink #fake news
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Disguised as a Christmas Tree (permalink)
From Harper's Young People, 1888.
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#vintage illustration #green man #illustration #tree costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #winged serpent #illustration
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The Right Word (permalink)
"Twigmuntus, cowbelliantus, perchnosius.  Can you give me an answer to that?" the lad asked.  From Fairy Tales from the Swedish of G. Djurklo, 1901.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1927.
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
“The hand of Satan on the sea of darkness.”  From Legends and Superstitions of the Sea and of Sailors, 1885.
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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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The monkey seemed much interested in her remarks."  From Sara Crewe or What Happened at Miss Minchin's by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #monkey #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Love me, love my dog.  From Jugend, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #dog #kissing #illustration #love me love my dog #kiss a dog #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #writer #nearsighted #attic apartment #studio apartment #writer's studio
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Left behind."  From "Memoirs of a Female Nihilist" in The Idler, 1894.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #frog #fish
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #transformation #gossip #rabbit #donkey #long ears
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.  See How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #anthropomorphism #cat #hybrid #cat man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #transformation #turnip #fat man #vegetable
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Scarecrows meet, woo, and marry in much the ways you might imagine.  From Satirikon, 1908.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An auto-centaur.  From The Judge, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #centaur
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #demon #pincers #peril
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This is how toilet books are written.  From Lustige Blätter, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #toilet paper
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's someone who has achieved Step Four of How to Be Your Own Cat.  From Kladderadatsch, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #lion #human faced #illustration #lion man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #dieting #weight management #counting calories #weight control #diet craze #losing weight
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July 25, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
If you know the biblical names for giant bottles, do you think the one pictured here is a jeroboam, a rehoboam, a methuselah, a salmanazar, a balthazar, or a nebuchadnezzar?  From Lustige Blätter, 1914.
Here are some rather weird vintage bottles.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #alcohol #giant bottle #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #mirror #concave #weight loss #thinning mirror #slimming mirror #flattering mirror
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Baïonnette, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #cat #sheet music #musical animal #onomatopoeia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #snake charmer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Journey in Other Worlds by John Jacob Astor, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #space travel #outer space #space capsule #1890s #illustration
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1908.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #infestation #king #bugs #illustration #uneasy lies the head that wears a crown
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Book of Famous Fairy Tales, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #tiny woman #illustration
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1939.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #rainy day #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #skull #open grave #grave robber #illustration
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Apropos of Nothing (permalink)
From Becoming a Whole Person by Cid Davidson, 2004.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #monkey #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #illustration #tennis outfit #tennis clothes #vintage tennis #sportswear
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Precursors (permalink)
Possibly at the same time that "La Cucaracha" was written, there was also "La Cochonnette."  From Le Journal Amusant, 1911.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The moon has a fingerprint.  From Stories and Interludes by Barry Pain, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #halloween #spooky #full moon #october #bats #vintage book #book #hallowe'en #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you've been kicked by Pegasus.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1898.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #vintage car #car #vintage automobile #musical car #musical instruments #automobile #orchestral car #orchestra on wheels
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #making faces #face parts
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1901.
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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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#vintage illustration #worry #shipwreck #dread #storm on the sea #your ship will come in
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #matador #bullfighter
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July 24, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.  However, you're unlikely to be punished for learning How to Be Your Own Cat.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The caption to this one is "Tango Hospital."  From Lustige Blätter, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #dancing #tango #hospital #dance therapy #therapeutic dance
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #shakespeare #question mark #questionable #hamlet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1921.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1927.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1928.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Riverside Magazine for Young People, 1870.
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to How to Be Your Own Cat.  It's Beauty is a Beast by Kathleen Moore Knight.  (Book cover via 54mge.)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, 1890.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1927.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Floating paper temples."  From Legends and Superstitions of the Sea and of Sailors, 1885.
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
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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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #sausage #illustration #flying sausage #winged sausage #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1931.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1907.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #death #skull #grim reaper #practical joke #bicycle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Al'manakh, 1906.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It's the basting that really makes it juicy.  From Lustige Blätter, 1908.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From When the Wind Blows, by Cyril Hare:

[The title, cleverly, refers to clarinets in an orchestra.]

***

Debrett had materialized in Mrs. Basset's hand, apparently of its own volition.

***

She had probably been going to bed for the last hour, and she might continue to brush her hair for another ten minutes, merely because it was too much trouble to stop.

***

“We’ll remember, won’t we, girls?” she cried archly—an exclamation that produced a shout of surprised laughter from her fellows, who would as soon have expected to be called “girls” by the jubilee statue of Queen Victoria in the Market Square.

***

"This man Ventry," said the sergeant solemnly, "is no better than a satire, if you ask me."

[Google confirms that this is a novel thing to say! Google proper brings up no hits for "no better than a satire," and even Google Books shows only three results, all of which are false positives along the lines of "[something--NOT someone--was] no better than a satire [[upon/of something]]." And I'm not exactly sure what the sergeant means by it. Ventry is a notorious womanizer, so the implication may be that his real-life behavior corresponds to the popular idea of the "low morals" on display in satirical plays. But I would like to think that the sergeant merely means that Ventry is so flagrant in his behavior that he's practically a parody of his type--and, I note, this interpretation might be supported by the template of those false positives above, if the unuttered remainder of the sergeant's thought is something like "of himself."  Oh, but I didn't mean to neglect another interpretation--the first one that crossed my mind, in fact--in which the implication is that satirical plays are of low quality (artistically, not "morally"), and Ventry is as shoddy as a person as a satire is as a play.]

***

"When I was a boy," observed the Chief Constable, "I was given a damned dull book to read.... It was /Madam How and Lady Why/."

[Yes, it's real! http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1697/1697-h/1697-h.htm]

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Disguised as a Christmas Tree (permalink)
From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1902.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Two ghosts (one more difficult to make out than the other).  From Peter Ibbetson, illustrated by George Du Maurier, 1891.
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July 23, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Granted, it's difficult to get a cat to perform, but invariably that's because its price hasn't been met.  From Nebelspalter, 1875.
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the "Have you hugged a goat today?" decal.  From Satirikon, 1908.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #money #coins #barrel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #1900s #transvestism #man in a dress #giant toad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"You have thrown me from my balance."  From The Great Stone of Sardis by Frank Richard Stockton, 1897.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #cupid
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #people who look like their dogs #cubism #pet walker #robots
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #rainy day #illustration #cold season #catching a cold
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #hybrid #human headed #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #death #beard #skeleton #grim reaper #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Altemus' Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, 1898.
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The Right Word (permalink)
Here are some spirit squiggles and a message in Hebrew, from A Discussion of the Facts and Philosophy of Ancient and Modern Spiritualism by Samuel Byron Brittan and B. W. Richmond, 1853.
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#spirit writing #spiritualism #seance
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #centaur #vintage magazine #illustration #saxophone #ichthyocentaur #sea-centaur #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Brownies charming the Bear."  From Autumn Leaves by Christie Crust, 1875.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Arabian Days' Entertainments by Wilhelm Hauff, 1858.
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#vintage illustration #giant #fairy tale #giant hand #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #illustration #three headed #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Interagency Bison Management Plan for the State of Montana and Yellowstone National Park, 1998.
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#bear #watercolor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Something fierce."  From Judge's Library, 1903.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #imp
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Mind reader's hand, subject's hands."  From The Book of Magic by Archie Frederick Collins, 1915.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #rooster #cock fight
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July 22, 2018

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Better late than never?  Page 174 begins, "Now that I have your attention (I hope)."  From Monsters and Magical Sticks by Steven Heller and Terry Steele.
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to mountain-themed rollercoasters.  From Lustige Blätter, 1914.
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #sea creatures #poseidon #sea life #under the sea
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Evoking the spirits.  From Le Courrier Français, 1906.  See Seance Parlor Feng Shui.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #eye of god #eye in the sky
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #armor #spikes #personal protection
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #cherub #gold #scales #peace angel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #ladder #long spaghetti #highchair #italian restaurant #pasta
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #playing cards #king of hearts #face cards
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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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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#vintage illustration #death #horror #under the sea #illustration #deep sea diver
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #mouse #mice #cat and mouse #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Parthenon and snow crystal.  From Nature's Harmonic Unity by Samuel Colman, 1912.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1905.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales and Sketches by Hans Christian Andersen, 1870.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #will-o'-the-wisp #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #beard #long beard #illustration #beard art #beard artist #beard painter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #hair pulling #punch in the mouth
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)

"'The Spirit of Electricity,' the heroic statue atop the Telephone and Telegraph Building, New York.  It has been called the 'most inspiring thing of its kind in the metropolis."  From Long Lines magazine, 1921. 

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.  From Jugend, 1907.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #santa #banquet #toys #illustration #living toys #toy collector #grown up toys
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Bridges, by Clare Beecher Kummer:

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PENFIELD: Did anyone ever do "both"? Doesn't everybody know that doing "both" is responsible for all the failures in the world?

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PENFIELD: I shall start in on the noisiest sunset I can think of.

***

PENFIELD: But you wouldn't have people stop--writing altogether, would you?

ENID: No--they have to, of course. And it isn't so annoying anyway--books don't stare at you like pictures.

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July 21, 2018

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to The Brady Bunch.  From Lustige Blätter, 1908.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #devil #death #illustration #stabbed #knifed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #demon #devil #1920s #crushed #strong man
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1928.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #death #angel #cherub #weightless #1920s #illustration #flying bed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Otto Spekter's Fable Book, 1844.
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#vintage illustration #fable #goat #illustration
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1905.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #snails #illustration #watering can
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Irish Fairy Tales by James Stephens and illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #wolves #illustration #wild dogs
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
The only sides of the dice with spots are six, six, six.  From Kladderadatsch, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #boot #666 #six six six #three sixes #dice roll #all sixes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #money #coins #cornucopia #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Flint Heart by Eden Phillpotts, 1910.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Three troll princes are conjured from the mountain palaces by strange incantations.  From The Saga of Jarl the Neatherd by H. Escott-Inman, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #conjuration #fairy tale #occult #trolls #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #devil #gallows #hanged man #1900s #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #dog #smiling dog #smiling animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Floppy foppish mannequins slapping each other.  From Judge's Library, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #dandies #mannequin #fop
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #cats #wheel of fortune #centrifugal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.  See How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cats #hybrid #cat headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Pelted by rabbits.  From The Judge, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #winter #bunnies #rabbit #1900s #snowball fight #snowballs
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May rainbows lead you to the spooky castles of life, if that's your journey.  From Lustige Blätter, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #spooky #horse #castle #rainbow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #vault
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Baïonnette, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit
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July 20, 2018

What I Now Know (permalink)
Ask, "Is there anything that I am doing today that, knowing what I now know, I would not start up again today if I had to do it over?  This is one of the most effective reinvention tools. I call it a KWINK (Knowing What I Now Know) analysis."
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Helping hands from the invisible world.  From Lustige Blätter, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #hands #severed hand #helping hands #home help
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #anthropomorphism #giraffe #lol
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #spirit #flower spirit #flower fairy
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Case of the Dubious Bridegroom, by Erle Stanley Gardner:

***

[Perry Mason Goes Surrealist]

"Now, if you can tell me why a woman should go tearing madly down the highway to fill up her tank with gasoline at Oceanside, then drive off the road and commit suicide, I'll give you a furlined fountain pen."

[He subsequently indicates that "the second prize consist[s] of a twenty-one jewel watch which runs backwards.]

***

[From Knock, Murderer, Knock! by Harriet Rutland:]

***

He secretly felt that knick-knacks and what-nots made a more fitting background for Hydro chit-chat.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #fan
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From The Judge, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #dancing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #scythe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #piano #pianist #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Swinton's Book of Tales, 1880.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #minotaur #bull headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Book of Famous Fairy Tales, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #frog #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #demon #monster #creature #illustration #creature design
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Castle of Grumpy Grouch by Mary Dickerson Donahe, 1908.   See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #elves #door knocker #illustration
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Always Remember (permalink)
From The Architect's Apprentice by Elif Shafak, 2015.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The earth gets a spanking until it sees stars.  From Jugend, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #world #earth #constellation #stars #spanking #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He had all the signs of the zodiac" (after eating a bunch of almanacs).  From Judge's Library, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #zodiac #goat #seeing stars #1900s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The London Journal, 1863.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #big cat #cougar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Puss in Boots by Julia Corner and illustrated by Harrison Weir, 1854.   See How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #anthropomorphism #boots #puss in boots #cat clothes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #imp #long neck
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Buria, 1906.

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#vintage illustration #full moon #egypt #statue
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July 19, 2018

This May Surprise You (permalink)
Fishing for rabbits is actually a Scottish sport.  We found photographic evidence here.  From Lustige Blätter, 1908.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #cemetery #graveyard #skulls
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #sword #you can't take it with you
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #axe #siamese twins #conjoined
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"Now I'll walk in all the puddles."  From At the Open Door by Louise Robinson, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #rainy day #galoshes #illustration #puddles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #germs #illustration #radium #microbes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Celtic Fairy Tales, selected by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John D. Batten, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #fairy tale #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #up a tree #black dog #attack dog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #divination #fortune teller #card reader #illustration
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A Rose is a ... (permalink)
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#rose #book title
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #women's fashion #gender #lesbian #woman #butch
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #ducks #procession #priests
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1912.
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Talk to the pipe.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1910.
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From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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The origin of cut-offs.  From Buria, 1906.
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This was the only option before How to Be Your Own Cat.  From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #costume #lion costume
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Disneyland's Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, in which this style of automobile travels through interiors.  From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #giant hand #bow down before the one you serve #bend over
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Another nervous breakdown.  From Primary Education, 1917.
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July 18, 2018

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)

Our new publication offers 52 wishes for wayfarers before they take that first step, one for every bone of the feet.  Some might be called blessings, others prayers and positive affirmations for those who would travel by foot.  There is also a trio of ancient foot talismans from the Far East.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #walking
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you can relate to a cow, sheep, rooster, and literate baby crashing your little party.  From Satirikon, 1908.
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Nearly five decades before Godzilla threatened Tokyo, this ichthyosaurus threatened Heidelberg.  From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
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From Le Journal Amusant, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #imp #cherub #harpy #lol
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From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #top hat #hat #accordion #hat tip
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"Happy brides — unhappy mothers in five short years — Why?"  From The Judge, 1922.   See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #winged man
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From Kladderadatsch, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #sphinx #egypt #illustration
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From Fliegende Blätter, 1928.
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From Kladderadatsch, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #bull #cliff #blindfolded #red star
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mythological Zoo by Oliver Herford, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #angel #heaven #mythology #satyr #illustration #heaven's gate #st. peter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #masquerade #donkey headed #illustration #donkey mask
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1927.  See Seance Parlor Feng Shui.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spiritualism #seance #spirit medium #ectoplasm
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Ampersands (permalink)
From A Most Wanted Man by John le Carré, 2008.
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#ampersand
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Our Little Friends of Norway, Ola and Marit by Frances Carpenter and illustrated by Curtiss Sprague, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #sunrise #norway #midnight sun #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #horns #antlers #illustration #winter sports #snow slide #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The curly craze."  From Judge's Library, 1896.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #imp #devil #jester #musician #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1942.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's dog-horse hybrid is from Lustige Blätter, 1905.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #spooky
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July 17, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you feel two ways about wearing wood-grain printed fabric.  From Nebelspalter, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #janus #two faces #two-faced #happy and sad #two moods
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The title of this is, "Meatpacking in Chicago."  From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #anthropomorphism #dog #dog headed #dog man
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From Le Courrier Français, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #spider #arachnophobia #giant spider #caught in a web #illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Death at Crane's Court, by Eilís Dillon:

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[George] made his will in favour of a second cousin whom he had never seen, but who had a reputation for oddity, principally because he wore a two-foot beard and wrote savage but incomprehensible poems. George liked the sound of him.

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His hands pouring out tea were soft and smooth, and they were continually lifting a little at the wrists as if to step back and admire their work.

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"He writes articles about the decline of art, literature and the drama in Ireland, and sighs for the good old days before he was born. So, I imagine, do the editors whom he pesters with this stuff."

***

[This is an amusingly mixed metaphor, imo: the concept of the "best" school turning out the epitome of a gentleman mashed up with the concept of Timbuktu as the epitome of remoteness.]

"Not if he went to school in Timbuctoo, nothing would make a gentleman of him."

***

[Deputy Ghost dept.: A senile woman believes that the friendly ghost of the old squire visits her, and to gain her confidence a police inspector has been given the job of telling her that he is the ghost. But he doesn't want to be a ghost.]

"It will be interesting to be a ghost," said Daly mischievously. "I'd rather like the job myself."

"Do you think she'll allow me to transfer it to you?" asked Mike hopefully.

"Not a chance," said the old man, shaking his head. "She knows me too well."

[A little later]

Mike... was already planning to make [police officer] Colm MacDonagh his deputy ghost.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #giant snake
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #clock #1900s #times of day #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A mosquito steals a bicycle.  From Judge's Library, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #mosquito #cycling #giant insect #giant mosquito #bicycle thief
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #deathbed #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Persian Tales, translated by D. L. R. and E. O. Lorimer and illustrated by Hilda Roberts, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #folk tale #persian #flying carpet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #dragon #knight #st. george #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From El Tío Clarín, c. 1867.  Courtesy of the Biblioteca Rector Machado y Nuñez.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales from All Nations by Anthony Reubens Montalba and illustrated by Richard Doyle, 1850.
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#vintage illustration #monster #fairy tale #two headed #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #dance of death #bagpipes #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #skeleton in the closet #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #idol #sacrifice #moloch #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #fear of cats #cat phobia #felinophobia #ailurophobia #elurophobia #black cats #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Bühne, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #whisper #spirit #heart #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #potato #voyeurism #salad dressing
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Precursors (permalink)
It's nothing new for companies to have contempt for their clientele.  From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Al'manakh, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #heart #thorns #blood #bleeding heart
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July 16, 2018

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Charles Pieper's stop-motion film "Eye Contact" (on Vimeo).  From Lustige Blätter, 1914.  
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#vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #human chess #chess pieces #chess costume #chess hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #practical joke #all fours #spring #trick chair
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #transvestism #hat #women's hat #vintage hat #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #demon #walpurgisnacht #human bat #the people could fly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Broma: Órgana Política Liberala, 1881.  Courtesy of La Biblioteca Universitaria de Sevilla.
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#vintage illustration #harpy #human headed #bird man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #snail #tiny man #giant snail
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Woodcut by Wharton H. Esherick.  From Rhymes of Early Jungle Folk by Mary Marcy, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #woodcut #volcano #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #hunter #antlers #illustration #horned man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #satan #silhouette #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #long neck
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Both caught a glimpse of a tall, thin figure in black, rocking with laughter in the doorway."  From "Real Ghost Stories" in Pearson's, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #haunted house #spectre #spooky #phantom #illustration
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Postcard Transformations (permalink)
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Highway Across the Desert
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#vintage postcard #desert highway #gif #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #devil #satan #illustration #hand puppets #puppet show #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #mermaid #bicycle #under the sea
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #cherub #cupid #god #swan costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An illustration by W. A. Wellner.  From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #rats #drunk #hallucination #delirium
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
"Shedding tears into a box of chocolates."  From One Thousand Laughs from Vaudeville, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #crying #tears #chocolate #box of chocolates #tears and chocolate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #pig #seltzer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
At first glance, we thought a crocodile was being ground up, but those are someone's legs.  From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #horror #cannibalism #meat grinder #human meat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #halo #home sweet home #home from vacation #bless this house
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July 15, 2018

Precursors (permalink)
Early attempts to learn How to Be Your Own Cat had mixed results.  We've come a long way.  From Satirikon, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #cat people #people who look like animals
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you've ever started a series of books but ended up finding them distasteful.  From Lustige Blätter, 1908.

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#vintage illustration #books #stack of books
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Robbery by Clare Beecher Kummer:

***

BOB: I'll stay till the butler gets dressed. I'm sure he's not dead. They always live to be awfully old.

[And this, if I recall correctly, was from Mrs. Bumstead-Leigh by Harry James Smith]:

NINA (Standing away with a shriek of laughter)

Oh, Mr. Anthony! Aren't you an article!

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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the spooky clergy of the superb band Ghost.  From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #spooky #clergy #cardinal copia #big hands #ghost band
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Buria, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #harpy #hybrid #human headed #man bird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #death #father time #cupid #piano
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #cyclist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Baïonnette, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #sapphic #undressing #tiny scissors #disrobing #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1929.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #winter #illustration #mittens #cold weather #six legs
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #birdcage #caged bird #illustration #hat #tweet #empty head
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #imps #bottle imp #tiny man
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
"The emperor felt as if some one was sitting on his chest.  He opened his eyes, and then he saw it was Death."  From Fairy Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Andersen, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #fairy tale #illustration
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #dreaming #dove of peace #illustration #vegetarian nightmare
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #king kong
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Yes, we read all the magazines."  From Life, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #hoarding #avid reader
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A fish out of water delivers a hen's egg.  From Judge's Library, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #egg #fish out of water
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Smoke pretzels.  From The Judge, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #smoke #pipe smoker #pretzel #smoke ring
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #construction
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Over the Hookah by George Frank Lydston, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #mountaintop #full moon #mountain climber #illustration #moon worship
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July 14, 2018

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Sushi Ramen Riku, who often uses pressurized bottles to propel himself through space.  From Lustige Blätter, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #winter #alcohol #sledding #winter sports #sushi ramen riku #sushi ramen #????????? #すしらーめんのりく #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #vintage car #car
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spectre #spirit #apparition #ball and chain
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Some little sound of unregarded tears." —Algernon Charles Swinburne.
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#tears #swinburne
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #face mask #illustration #personal protection
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fables and Fairy Tales by Henry Morley and illustrated by Charles H. Bennett, 1860.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #giantess #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #giant #pipe smoker #trees #illustration #smoking trees #smoke a tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #alligator costume #carnival #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The mysterious door."  From Maugis, Ye Sorcerer by Lord Gilhooley, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #mysterious #illustration #door #iron hinges
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #devil #satan #illustration #angry mob #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #winged man #illustration #the people could fly #book wings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #baseball #hit on the head
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #shield #continuous line
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #vintage magazine #seashore #cold and wet #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #invisible man #handcuffs
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Egyptian entomology.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #insect people #bug people #entomology
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Fairy who Believed in Human Beings, written and illustrated by Gertrude Alice Kay, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #fairy tale #vintage book #book #old book #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Buria, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #death #fire
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #owl #quill pen #tiny men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Magic popcorn?  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #magician #vintage magic #magic hat #stage magic #popcorn #card trick #art
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July 13, 2018

What I Now Know (permalink)
"What I now 'know' happened in the interval, in the continuous space of crossing from one way of knowing to another. I can't decompose my movement/sensation of that crossing into an explanation of it, but I can gesture toward the coordinates of its passage and invite you along..."
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satirik, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #spider #tiny man #giant spider
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's Britannia as a female Moses.  From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #ten commandments #lion #biblical #miss moses
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #beer #fountain #alcohol #urination
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #fish #under the sea #illustration #diver
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
At the edge of the world.  From The Judge, 1922.
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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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He was upsetting the news of Australasia."  From Pearson's, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #fire
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #vintage hair styles #big hair #illustration #hat #hair #hair styles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1933.  See Seance Parlor Feng Shui.
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#vintage illustration #spiritualism #seance #table tipping #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #gender bending #women's fashion #illustration #cross dressing #lesbian
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Irish Fairy Tales by James Stephens and illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1920.
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Uncharted Territories (permalink)
From "Wings," in Aunt Judy's Annual, 1882.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #toadstool #fairies #fairy ring #mushroom #mushroom people #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Twenty-two Goblins by Arthur W. Rider, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #giant #fairy tale #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #cat #revolution #angry mob
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"The Universe is upheld solely by the law of Love" -- a facsimile of Marie Corelli's manuscript, reproduced in The Idler, 1894.
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Precursors (permalink)
Shoulder pads go back to cubism.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1911.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Black Shrouds, by Constance and Gwenyth Little:

[Another "screwball mystery" from the Little sisters.]

***

Grace and Mary did not mind and said so with such enthusiasm that Papa had to put a series of sneering remarks back onto the stove and let them simmer.

***

[Bonus: The book features a pair of sisters named Imogene and Opal Rostrum.]

***

[From Dragon's Cave, by Clyde B. Clason:]

***

This from Phelan, who was standing beside the living-room door, hitherto as silent as a bust of Socrates.

[I like the specificity of that; and it's fun to misread an implication that a bust of Socrates would be particularly silent, as far as busts go. For a modern-day book, I would suggest "a bust of Marcel Marceau" to really put it over the top.]

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Buria, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #scythe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #money #mask #hybrid #gold #half cow #cow woman
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Precursors (permalink)
 Here's a precursor to How to Be Your Own Cat.  From Dumskii Al'manakh, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #cat people #mousetrap #cat man
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July 12, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #temptation #serpent #snake #garden of eden #eve #apple of knowledge
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the Magic 8-Ball fortune-telling toy of 1950.  Note the triangle in the background, mirroring the shape of the 20 faces of the 8-Ball's inner icosahedron.  From Satirik, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #magic 8-ball
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A bed of corned beef.  From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #tinned meat #corned beef #weird bed #meat bed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #bird headed #silhouette #anthropomorphism #hybrid #vulture
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
You've heard that God doesn't play dice.  But what about cards?  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #heaven #god #card game
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This scan is hard to make out, but there are three enormous blue shrouded spirits hovering behind the columns.  From The Judge, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #haunted #spirits #ghosts #shrouded
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #giant #king #sword
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #cat #pointy hat #fish
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Mynheer Sommersquash.  From The Puritan, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #pipe smoker #squash #illustration #vegetable people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #nature spirit #tree spirit #faces in things #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen by Alexander Chodźko, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #boxer #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #harpy #hybrid #human headed #illustration #breathing #inhale exhale #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #wolf #illustration #red riding hood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #giant #jester #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"What will become of the men who stay out late."  From Judge's Library, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #owl #transformation #metamorphosis #up all night #night owl #illustration #out late #staying out
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
"Neptune looked bored."  From The Idler, 1894.
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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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#vintage illustration #mermaid #under the sea #king neptune #trident
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #cherub #cupid #magnifying glass
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #cemetery #spirits #graveyard #spooky #ghosts #living dead #necrophage
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Illustration by L. Feininger.  From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #monkey
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July 11, 2018

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to "Duelling Banjos."  From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #duel #musical instruments #dueling banjos
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Precursors (permalink)
A precurosr to the Lament Configuration puzzle box from Clive Barker's Hellraiser franchise?  From Lustige Blätter, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #clive barker #hellraiser #lament configuration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Azart, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #angel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #easter bunny #rabbit #bunny
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Sushi Ramen Riku jumping into his clothes.  From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #dressing #sushi ramen riku
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The eye in the sky/eye in the pyramid is God's belly button.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #angel #garden of eden #eye of god #god #adam and eve #eye in the pyramid #eye in the sky #paradise lost
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #sword
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1929.
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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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#vintage illustration #polar bear #sea monster #boat #sea bear #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #big nose #states of arousal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
How one sees a ghost.  From Modern Psychical Phenomena: Recent Researches and Speculations by Hereward Carrington, 1919.
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#occult #vintage diagram #diagram #ghost seer #second sight #seeing a ghost
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #pigs #tennis #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #life on mars #martian #alien #illustration #eyes on stalks
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1919. 

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#vintage illustration #fairy #illustration
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Non-Circulating Books (permalink)
Non-circulating book.  See our artist’s statement here: https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?c=NonCirculatingBooks.  (Individual cards are available from Zazzle, and deep discount bulk orders of 10 or more are available from Vistaprint.)
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#vintage illustration #dog #jester #illustration #library book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #tiny man #illustration #huntress #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #mirror #distortion #weight loss #weight management #thinning mirror
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Precursors (permalink)
A 1912 prediction for 1960.  Eerily accurate!  From The Judge.
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#vintage illustration #gender identity #prediction #mustache #vintage magazine #androgyny #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #jack-in-the-box #faces in things
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tibet & Nepal by Arnold Henry Savage Landor, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #shadow #mountain climber #illustration #tibet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #yoga
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July 10, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #timepiece #faces in things #clock #tiny man #pocket watch #drunk #1900s #hallucination #giant timepiece #time monster #time giant
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you ever shared a hotdog with your shadow self.  From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #shadow #hotdog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #alcohol #tiny man #drunk #soused
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Precursors (permalink)
Long before the "me too" movement, Beelzebub wrote a book called I Too in 1856.
Speaking of the Devil and good grammar, Fernando Pessoa included this marvelous passage in his Book of Disquiet.  He refers to occult writers:
What really shocks me is how these wizards and masters of the invisible, when they write to communicate or intimate their mysteries, all write abominably. It offends my intelligence that a man can master the Devil without being able to master the Portuguese language. Why should dealing with demons be easier than dealing with grammar? If through long exercises of concentration and will power one can have so-called astral visions, why can’t the same person — applying considerably less concentration and willpower — have a vision of syntax? What is there in the teachings and rituals of the Magic Arts that prevents their adherents from writing — I won’t say with clarity, since obscurity may be part of the occult law — but at least with elegance and fluency, which can exist in the sphere of the abstruse? Why should all the soul’s energy be spent studying the language of the Gods, without a pittance left over to study the colour and rhythm of the language of men?
And speaking of Pessoa, here's our 59-second explanation of his mindfulness meditation for making a reality of your imagination.
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#vintage illustration #occult #vintage book #book #grammar #beelzebub #fernando pessoa #i too
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Baïonnette, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #falling #plane crash
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #monster #horror #yokai #vintage magazine #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #sun #lion #mountain climber #1920s #ambition #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The piano trick."  From The Strand, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #piano #illustration #piano trick
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Form Quarterly of the Arts, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #occult #esoteric #elixir of life #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #surreal #eiffel tower #ferris wheel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The master and his pupil."  From English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, 1890.  See The Young Wizard's Hexopedia.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #atlas #mythology #giant #illustration #holding up the sky
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #skull
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Seven Seas Magazine, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #tarot #warrior #illustration #knight of swords #battlefield
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #cherub #cupid #crying #caged
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #shipwreck #fish #under the sea
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #playing cards #chicken #bunny #card players #card game
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Death of a Fellow Traveller, by Delano Ames:

***

He made a half-hearted attempt to tell me about St. Neot, a very small man who was unable to reach as high as the keyhole of the Glastonbury Abbey door. The keyhole therefore slid down until it was within St. Neot's reach.

"It would seem simpler in a way," he said, "had St. Neot stood on something. But no--the obvious solution of the problem was for the keyhole to descend. The man who made up that story had the kind of mentality we need in the present case."

I refrained from pointing out that in that event he, Dagobert, was just the man required.

***

I suppose the opposite of having an ace up your sleeve is having a deuce up your sleeve.

***

"Don't you remember?" he said, "I wasn't going to have any more hunches."

"Have one anyway," I urged.

***

"But you made that up for my benefit, didn't you?" I said breathlessly.

"No, someone really did inquire about Gwink," he said. "I often tell the truth; you want to be on your guard against it."

***

He was one of those terrifying players who know all about arithmetic and mutter before they throw: "treble fifteen, eighteen and double top." This kind of thing impresses me even when the darts go somewhere else.

***

I found a pile of old magazines which kept me busy for the next hour or so. I was absorbed in a scheme for making a "dramatic" handbag out of an old felt hat (or possibly it was the other way round)....

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #hermit #1890s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We made a clipart version of this one for you.  From Al'manakh, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #demon #skeleton #horror #halo #winged skeleton
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July 9, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Liberal and conservative as conjoined fetuses preserved in a jar.  From Lustige Blätter, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #illustration #conjoined #specimen jar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #otherworld #wee folk
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
They're merely wrestling.  From Le Courrier Français, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #wrestling #homoerotic #gay innuendo #make love not war #homophobia #wrestlers #suggestive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #mercury #vintage magazine #shopkeeper #winged hat #magazine #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The 14-headed monster behind bullfighting.  From The Judge, 1922.
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1929.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #dreaming #gemini #siamese twins #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #demon #cherub #hell #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Boxing a ghost.  From Le Rire, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #boxing #boxer #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #chariot #faces in things #illustration #rickshaw #human powered #man powered
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
"One could accumulate great wisdom and secure fortunes by studying his own finger-nails."  From Observation:—Every Man His Own University by Russell Herman Conwell, 1917.
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#fingernails
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The lantern-bearer stood before him," from Queen Mab's Fairy Realm, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #lantern #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #demon #devil #bat #serpent #illustration #art #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #kicked #through the window
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A cannon with hands, feet, and eyes.  From La Baïonnette, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #anthropomorphism #cannon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #demon #satyr
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Built in the eclipse and rigged with curses dark."  From Quips and Cranks by Thomas Hood, 1861.
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#vintage illustration #beard #occult #eclipse #artist #modern art #1860s #cursed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1900.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Suddenly a large flock of birds, looking like great black clouds, came flying from the blue hills."  From Canadian Fairy Tales by Cyrus MacMillan, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #blackbird #canada #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A suit of armor as a photo album.  From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #armor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Buket, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #demon #satan #owl #hell #skulls
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July 8, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #flying horse #cowboy #art
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

This from Dorothy Parker:

***

It is difficult to say whether Mrs. McPherson is happier in her crackling exclamations or in her bead-curtain-and-chenille-fringe style. Presumably the lady is happy in both manners. That would make her two up on me.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Ignacy Jan Paderewski.  From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #piano #pianist #paderewski
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Buria, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #bird #giant bird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #boxing kangaroo #boxing #kangaroo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #crystal ball #music box
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #people who look like their dogs #big hair #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales and Sketches by Hans Christian Andersen, 1870.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #fairy tale
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A Fine Line Between... (permalink)
The Other World and This by Augusta W. Fletcher, 1893.
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#vintage font #other world #font
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #monster #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"She saw a queer little figure making grimaces at her."  From The Princess Idleways by Helen Ashe Hays 1879.   See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #fairy tale #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Un Autre Monde by Grandville.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #quill #grandville #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #occult symbol #occult artist #occult icon #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #lion #biting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The two-headed bird of surrender.  From La Baïonnette, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #two-headed #white flag #surrender
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Book of Whispers (permalink)
The profoundest secret: the universal parity of existence.  From John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman (referring to Pisanello's "The Vision of St. Eustace").
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#saint
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1929.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #magick #spirits #fable #fairy tale #occult #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1928.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #ape #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The caption translates, "The bottle's not important so long as it gets you drunk."  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #beard #mad scientist #horror #redhead #fetus #specimen jar #whatever gets you drunk #horrifying #medical horror #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Phantoms foot it to the Death-watch drum."  From Episodes of Insect Life by Acheta Domestica (a.k.a. L. M. Budgen), 1851.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #dance of death #illustration #tiny skeleton
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July 7, 2018

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to M. C. Escher.  From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #transformation #elephant #escher #escheresque #m. c. escher #hyrbid
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Buria, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #scythe #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1898.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #hybrid #dog headed #half dog #dog people #dog men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The cutlery here is like looking into our own silverware cabinet.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cutlery #silverware #strange fork #meatball #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #winged man #flying man #the people could fly #bat signal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1929.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage cards #living object #card game #playing card #illustration #cards #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1933.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #laundry #illustration #clothesline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This eerily depicts our own writing process.  From Le Rire, 1901.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairies #inspiration #writing #hallucination #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From More English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John D. Batten, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #bondage #illustration
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Jugend, 1927.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #monster #serpent #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ambition magazine, 1911.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #success #blindfolded #illustration #motivational poster
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magical Land of Noom, written and illustrated by Johnny Gruelle, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #cow #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1910.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #owl #shooting star #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The two old cats," from Once a Week, 1860.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #hair pulling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1908.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #guitar #musical animal #limerick
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Baïonnette, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #vintage magazine #war and peace #peace dove #dove costume #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An aspiring mustache and a happy pianist.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mustache #piaist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #haunted #demon #cemetery #spirits #graveyard #ghosts #sheet ghost #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
If we're reading this correctly, "the octopus whose tentacles suck and empty pockets and gussets."  If that makes sense to you, we applaud your perspicacity.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mustache #untranslatable
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July 6, 2018

The Right Word (permalink)
From "If Summer Comes " by G. F. MacMullen, in The Magazine of Fun, 1922.
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#expletive
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)

Having already seen the world through rose-colored glasses, we're now enjoying the view through lurid Jello-green flexi-discs!  The grass is definitely greener on the flip side!  We're celebrating the Retroactive Lifetime Goal of having our voice recorded onto a lurid Jello-O green flexi-disc in the new issue of Fiddler's Green magazine!

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#prof. oddfellow #lens flare #fiddler's green #flexi-disc
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if a system of pulleys and cables might help you keep up the dance.  From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dancing #human puppet #pulleys
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Buket, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #eagle #death #giant bird #prometheus #1900s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #anthropomorphism #goat #hybrid #goat headed
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Death of Anton, by Alan Melville:

***

Dodo the clown... is lying on top of his bed and turning over the pages of his Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Not reading, merely turning the pages.... [He] has been looking for a suitable place to begin reading the book ever since he bought it, but up to now has failed to find one.

***

Brother Robert had a perplexing habit of beginning a letter as though he were resuming a conversation which had been interrupted for a moment. He started in the middle, and ended in the same place.

***

"A novelist?"

"I've been talking to you for five minutes, and I haven't yet mentioned one of my masterpieces. Therefore I cannot be a novelist. Try again."

***

"You know that on Monday night the only people who matter are the newspaper critics, and so you play to their level."

"Up to it?" said Mr. Minto.

"Down to it."

***

At a certain chord from the band (or, more likely, at an uncertain chord, for the new trombone player had not yet accustomed himself to fitting in his blowing with the rapid succession of acts in the ring below him)....

***

The bangers arrived, heaped high on two enormous ashets. Claire had not believed there were so many sausages in captivitiy, and said so. Mr. Carey made a bad joke about missing links, and laughed for a long time at it.

***

No one should ever attempt to build a dam, however small, in a pale grey suit with a chalk stripe. Mr. Minto used, apart from bad language, mud and bricks and stones and divots.

***

[Double What-Not dept.]

At a rough guess, two hundred and fifty china ornaments were busily gathering dust on a number of shelves, cupboards, mantelpieces, whatnots, and what not around the room.

***

[Reminiscent of Anthropomorphized Weighing Machines in a Sitting Room dept.?]

There was a great deal of furniture, mainly upholstered in green plush, as well as a bird-cage (empty) which stood in the middle of the room, like a policeman directing traffic on point duty.

***

"The man thinks of nothing but his blooming vacuums. I hope he doesn't dream about them. It would be very awkward if he started giving me demonstrations in bed."

[I'm pretty sure this 1936 novel isn't intentionally referencing special "massage" attachments...]

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Once you try a serpent goblet, it's really the only way to imbibe.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #serpents #snakes #serpent glass #serpent goblet #snake glass #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #sour grapes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1903.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #goat #sheep #smiling animal #lamb
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #haunted #demon #ghost #death #spirits #giant hand #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #books #contemplation #illustration #thinker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #crocodile #alligator #animal attack #chased #lion #nowhere to run
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1930.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #full moon #sleepwalking #rooftop #illustration #sleepwalker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #musical animal #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Altemus' Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, 1898.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #castle #frog #princess #frog king
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #haves and have nots #rich and poor #half and half
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Clear the road!  I can't stop!"  From Aunt Judy's Annual, 1882.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #runaway horse #can't stop
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #water sprite #sea creature #koopa #illustration #water nymph #water spirits
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Precursors (permalink)
The game of redressing the Mona Lisa is almost as old as the great lady herself.  This one is from L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #mona lisa #alteration #redressing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1960.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wolf #wolf in sheep's clothing
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July 5, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1902.  We previously saw this other desperate drink from a specimen jar.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #frog #specimen bottle #specimen jar
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1898.
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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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#vintage illustration #dolphin #shipwrecked #stranded at sea
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A paternity test.  From Le Courrier Français, 1890.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #paternity test #baby daddy
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the Coneheads from Saturday Night Live.  From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1902.  Previously, we saw this other surprising precursor to the Coneheads.
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#vintage illustration #shadow #shadow puppet #coneheads
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #skull face #lantern #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #piano #pianist #fan
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Evening," by Karl Ritter.  From Der Orchideengarten, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #king of darkness #spirit of the evening #spirit of night #night king
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Emerald Wreath by Caviare, 1964.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairies #fairy tale
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1907.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #tiger #hypnotist #eye to eye #illustration #animal magnetism
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The Right Word (permalink)
From Celtic Fairy Tales, selected by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John D. Batten, 1892.
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The Ghost in the [Scanning] Machine (permalink)
There's even a ghostly title page in The Spiritual Pilgrim, A Biography of James M. Peebles by Joseph Osgood Barrett, 1878.
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#ghost #beard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The game of Twister, solo.  From Jugend, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #contortionist #yoga #illustration #twister
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From "Ghost Gossips at Bogle Hall," in The Royal Lady's Magazine, 1831.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
You've heard that time flies, but here's who flies faster than Father Time.  From Jugend, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #father time #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #animal headed #bird people #bird woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bird #turntable #record player
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #magick #occult #magician #vintage magic #prestidigitation #stage magic #female magician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He moved not through the long hours of the day."  From Zoroaster by F. Marion Crawford, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #contemplation #zoroaster #inertia #not moving #immobility
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July 4, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We checked, and the phrase "heaven doesn't need any more watering cans" is a Googlewhack.  From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #angel #heaven #watering can
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Argus, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #faces #facial expressions #cartooning
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Either the doctor just found the cause of his headache, or he's hired a bedside magician.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #magician #doctor #alarm clock #1890s #bedside manner
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's magazine covers feature so-called celebrities you've either not heard of or couldn't care less about.  But back in the day ... From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #vintage magazine #brain dump #magazine #art
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Only Funny If ... (permalink)
"Fireworks in broad daylight are decidedly funny."  From The Idler, 1894.
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#fireworks #asterisks
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #woodcut #gallows #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #chimney #illustration #hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The mysterious skeleton dances everything from the Highland Fling to the Grizzly Bear."  From Popular Electricity, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #halloween #skeleton #dance of death #october #hallowe'en #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales and Sketches by Hans Christian Andersen, 1870.
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#vintage illustration #elf #fairy tale #dog #brownie
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1939.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #haunted #spirits #ghosts #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #monster #skeleton #life and death #yokai #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cosmopolitan, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #angel #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mocca, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #architecture #illustration #spiral staircase
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #knight #bear #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #firecracker #insects #bugs
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Firecrackers explode to form a skull.  From The Judge, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #skull #firecracker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #musicians #candles #candle hat #candles with faces
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The nearest one might be right behind you.  From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #monster #standing stones #yokai
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July 3, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This is perhaps the only surefire way to see if the guy you're talking to is actually into chicks.  From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #baby bird #chick
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Al'manakh, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #chains #shackles #eagles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #cemetery #graveyard #book #funeral #dead book #book grave
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #horse #naked man #tied down #wild horse
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Act of Roger Murgatroyd, by Gilbert Adair:

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Even the grandfather clock stopped ticking--or else tick-tocked on tiptoe.

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It was the sort of sound that, in their stage directions, playwrights tend to convey as "ahem" and you could actually hear the two syllables "a" and "hem" in Chitty's cough.

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"It was she who solved the identical-twin fratricide in Faber or Faber, am I right?"

[N.B. The real-life book, The Act of Roger Murgatroyd, is published by Faber & Faber. And, for good measure, the owner of the country house is named ffolkes, echoing the lowercase double-f of the F&F logo.]

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"He said 'Dahling!' all the time, to all of us indiscriminately.... I chanced to catch him brushing away a fly that had settled on the rim of his cocktail glass and I actually heard him say, 'Buzz off, dahling!'"

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"When he burbled on incessantly about the finest this and the greatest that, you felt you were being sprayed by the spittle of exclamation marks."

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"To say that he drawled isn't the half of it. His whole body drawled."

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"Gentry... opined that The Green Hat was 'remembered only for having been forgotten.'"

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"Certainly," she answered, a tiny smoke-ring drifting over her head like a halo in search of a saint.

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[Literary Whatstheirnames dept.]

"He was a beast... with his T.S. this and his D.H. that...."

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"Molnar--the Hungarian playwright, you know, entrancing man, as witty as a barrel of monkeys."

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"Clem... is someone utterly incapable of losing his temper. Indeed, according to Cynthia, he's so absent-minded his temper is just about the only thing he never does manage to lose."

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Evelyn Mount, meanwhile, was wearing... shoes so sensible, as they say, you felt like consulting them on whether you should cash in your shares in Amalgamated Copper.

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"Cora has had no fewer than three husbands. It is three, isn't it, Cora darling?"

"Four, darling, if you count the Count."

"I never count the Count."

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"One was The Vamp of the Pampas. Ooh, was that hot stuff!"

"Language, Addie, language! This isn't Paris, you know."

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"It was called No Murder in the Title...."

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Dolly stuck her forefinger in the dead centre of her brow as though to indicate, for everyone's benefit, the exact location of her hunch.

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He even, nobody quite knew how, contrived to slam doors open.

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"Cora could tell her stories to the back of the Clapham omnibus and never know the difference."

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["Fictitious novel titles that postcurse JC-E titles" dept.]

The Proof of the Pudding

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It was almost as though she had spoken in italics, almost as though they could feel the hairs stand up on the napes of their necks, almost as though those hairs, too, were in italics.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I continuously brooded on the problems of existence—free-will and determinism, the whence and why and whither of man, the origin of evil, the immortality of the soul, the futility of life, etc., and made myself very miserable over such questions."  From Peter Ibbetson, illustrated by George Du Maurier, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #piano #meaning of life #existentialism #futility #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #love triangle #secret lover #two-timing #double-timing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1957.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #worship #clothes #high fashion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By Richard Klein.  From Der Orchideengarten, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #masquerade #violin #love and death
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #blowing bubbles #faces in things #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #violin #spider web #illustration #barbed wire
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How to Believe in Your Elf (permalink)
"First Man creates, and then he fears the Elf."  From The Dispensary by Samuel Garth, 1700.   See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#elf
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #witch #necromancy #illustration #three witches #boston witches
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #king #parliament #government #lion #illustration #lock and key #despot #dictator
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #scarecrow #straw man #illustration #kakashi
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales and Legends of Many Nations by Charles B. Burkhardt, 1850.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #fairy tale #illustration #nymph
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #angel #headache #illustration #sharp pain
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #rainy day #tree spirit #haunted forest #faces in things #shivering
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The danger of looking the wrong way through the binoculars.  From Judge's Library, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #tiger #binoculars
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July 2, 2018

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the running gag of referring to Google as "Something" in Arrested Development (because Google wouldn't give the show permission to refer to its tradename).  In Jasper Fforde's The Well of Lost Plots, there's a mega-corporation analogous to Google, called Goliath.  At one point, it's referred to as "the Something Company."
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
You guessed it -- this is indeed how modern art is created.  From Pliuvium, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #artist #modern art #painter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if your big ears make you a good listener.  From Zwanzigste Jahrhundert, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #big ears
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #anthropomorphism #rat #illustration #ballet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A sleek black cat balanced himself on her shoulder."  From The Dead Alive by Wilkie Collins, 1874
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #polar bear #sleigh
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #vegetarianism #horror #faces in things #meat #butcher
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Old News (permalink)
The "missing link" may technically be at large, but apparently its fingerprints have been taken.  From Illustrated World, 1920.
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#missing link #fingerprints #weird headline #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #black cat #giant cat #cat monster #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #mouse #cat and mouse #kitty #tabby #meow #illustration #striped cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The light of truth."  From Parables from Nature by Mrs. Alfred Gatty, 1861.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #leaping #leap of faith #the people could fly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The black horse.  From More Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John D. Batten, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #horse #black horse #illustration #flaming lake
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #octopus #under the sea #tentacles #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #hourglass #1927 #illustration #hat box
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #fountain #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Studies for Pictures by J. Moyr Smith, 1868.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #beard #anthropomorphism #insect #bug
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July 1, 2018

Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From All Roads to Sospel, by George Bellairs:

[At first I wrote I mistakenly wrote "Sospol." In other words, I mis-spel-led it!]

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Both of them eagerly said they did, the small man vociferously; the large one by vigorously shaking head up and down as though trying to cast it from him.

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'He's known locally as "Andy Know-all," not because of his education, but because he terminates almost every sentence with "you know."' [Technically, wouldn't that make everyone else the "know-alls"?]

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The phrase "Prussian Buddhism" is a Googlewhack, with the only results being spam gibberish.  From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #idol #buddha #prussia #many armed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This is how the Grim Reaper sharpens his scythe.  From Fonar', 1906.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #skulls #scythe #grindstone #sharpening
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1876.
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#vintage illustration #tree #stag #antlers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #war
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #owl #cat #dog #bird #up a tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By Gustave Doré.  From Der Orchideengarten, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #fighting death #scythe #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #death #mirror #skull face #haunted mirror #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From New Outlook, 1953.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Heroes, Or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children, written and illustrated by Charles Kingsley, 1856.
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #drawing #pear-shaped #faces #illustration #sketching #pears
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"They saw a figure, all blazing with light."  From Icelandic Fairy Tales, illustrated by E. A. Mason, 1897.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #graft #illustration
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Jugend, 1926.
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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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#vintage illustration #giant fish #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #mermaid #water spirit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #crocodile #alligator
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
Wittgenstein found that we cannot, in a certain sense, make mistakes in logic.  This is explained in Bruce Fleming's The New Tractatus, 2007.
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#reality #logic
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #drunk #melting building #inebriated #hallucinating #wobbly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #moon #man in the moon #illustration #moon face #nightcap
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