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From Southerly Busters by Ironbark, 1878.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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An illustration from Laughing Ann by Alan Patrick Herbert (1925). |
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An illustration from The Child's Own Poetry Book by Horace George Groser (1887). The caption reads: "We came by many a fairy nook."
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Leigh Hunt is apparently the only person ever to have referred to an "exactitude of toe" (easiness and endlessness notwithstanding). From The Essays of Leigh Hunt, illustrated by Henry Matthew Brock, 1903.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"'Rot!' I replied, with less elegance than terseness." From Dariel by Richard Doddridge Blackmore, 1897. |
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An illustration from A Tramp Abroad by Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1897). The caption reads: "My picture of the Matterhorn."
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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 It's "only funny if you're kidding."
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"Just place your hand upon my breast." From The Story Hunter or Tales of the Weird and Wild by Ernest Richard Suffling, 1896.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Deux Années au Brésil by François Biard and illustrated by Édouard Riou, 1862.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"It's really happening. The earth is really coming back again."
The foreground of this collage is from the extraordinarily brilliant comedy series Arrested Development.
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An illustration from The Paradise of Birds by William John Courthope (1889).
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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An illustration from Story of the Rear Column of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition by James S. Jameson (1890). The caption reads: "Diagram of spiders' webs."
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"The Eldest Generosity girl bounces about a good deal on the music stool and plays wrong notes maliciously." From The Money-Spinner by Henry Seton Merriman and illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1896.
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An illustration from Lilliput Lyrics by William Brighty Rands and illustrated by Charles Robinson (1899). The caption reads: "Nonsense Rhymes." |
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An illustration from Handy Andy by Samuel Lover (1896).
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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An illustration from The White Man's Foot by Grant Allen and illustrated by Joseph Finnemore (1888). The caption reads: "'Everything is correct,' he whispered."
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Here's a precursor to either Retch or Hoik from the brilliant comedy series This is Jinsy, which we found in Carols of Cockayne by Henry Sambrooke Leigh 1874.
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From Bubbles from the Brunnens of Nassau by Sir Francis Bond Head, 1866.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"The ram and its shadow," from Roses and Holly, 1867.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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An illustration from Helen by Maria Edgeworth, (1896). The caption reads: "Her expertness at general answers which give no information completely baffled the two."
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"Passing through the door," from Social Life of the Chinese by Justus Doolittle, 1867.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From A Little Tour in Ireland by S. R. Hole, 1878.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"Terrible Suspense": an illustration from Camp and Studio by Irving Montagu (1890). |
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Did you know that the very first joke in the great comedy film The 'Burbs occurs in the opening credits? The typographically literate will notice that the apostrophe has been replaced with a grave accent, alluding to what the Klopeks dig in their spooky backyard. (Film still courtesy of DVDBeaver.)
Meanwhile, here's an illustration from Across the Channel by James Crowther (1888). The caption reads: "The opened grave."
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"I want to go home," from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"Yes or no—speak!—Is there another life?" From The Wooing of Malkatoon by Lewis Wallace and illustrated by John Reinhard Weguelin, 1898.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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By jingo, that's Jingo himself on the right. From Poems by Louisa Shore (1897). The caption reads: "Tracts, by Jingo." |
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From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:
The text reads: "In the garment district, the silkworm never sleeps.* Likewise, the silkworm moth's eyes flutter but never close."
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Printed collections of Forgotten Wisdom diagrams are available: Volume I from Mindful Greetings and Volumes II, III and IV from Amazon. Selected posters are also available via Zazzle. |
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"We shall have little better than a hurricane," from Masterman Ready by Frederick Marryat, 1897.
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An illustration from A Fatal Fiddle by Edward Heron Allen (1890). The caption reads: "He had seen the hand on the former occasion—there it was—wandering from shelf to shelf."
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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An illustration from A Modern Utopia by H. G. Wells (1905). Illustration by Edmund Sullivan.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Here are the most colorful three lines of dialogue possible. The scene involves a couple planning a holiday. Reggie B. yearns for the ocean, but Em is a hydrophobic. We join them as Reggie B. hesitatingly hands Em a surfing brochure:
Reggie B: [pleadingly] Sea, Em? Em: [exasperated over Reggie B.'s insensitivity to her irrational fear of water] Why? Reggie B. [acquiescing, though aqua-effing under his breath] 'Kay.
We abbreviate the title of the dialogue as CMYK, and we do believe it covers the entire spectrum.
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"By some means, however, they got to the sky, / And found the Sun throned in his palace on high." From Thoughts and Fancies by John Cotton, 1897. |
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From The Struggle and Adventures of Christopher Tadpole by Albert Richard Smith and illustrated by John Leech, 1897.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"The waning polar day, 22nd September 1893. Pastel sketch. (The original was injured by damp.)" From Farthest North by Fridtjof Nansen, 1897. |
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"You're not having some mystical out of body experience up there. What's happening is real. It's really happening. You've got to stay with it." — Clown Through Mask
The foreground of this collage is from the extraordinarily brilliant comedy series Arrested Development. The background is by DistrictAliens and is entitled "Out of Body Experience."
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"It's only funny if it's a little thing, not a life and death matter."
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"A sort of phantom limb sensation motivates me to draw closer to the ( ) which interests me most. We think we feel ourselves where we can't possibly be, an extension of our body. We go to examine the sensation, and discover the absence of ourselves. But there is something there. There is still a tingling. We know it is a lie, but we want to believe it is an extension of us. When and where did we lose this limb, that we feel a hankering after it? What battle occurred in time immemorial or before our conscious existence?" — William Keckler |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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 A rose may be a rose may be a rose because a lawyer says that only a rose can solve our problem—therefore we have a rose.
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An illustration from The Last Voyage by Baroness Annie Brassey (1889).
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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An illustration from The Kitchen Maid by J. Bernard Partridge (1896). The caption reads: "Quick and light, hop! goes the Fairy!" |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"'If—if you are alive,' he whispered, 'speak to me: don't look at me so—don't!'" From The Lights of Sydney; or, No Past is Dead by Lilian Turner, 1896.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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An illustration from In the Forbidden Land by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1898). The caption reads: "Thus elapsed twenty-four terrible hours."
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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An illustration from Comic History of Greece by Charles Snyder (1898). The caption reads: "Ulysses invokes the shades."
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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An illustration from a 1905 issue of Wide World magazine. The caption reads: "'Now,' said I, 'Here's a ghost. I'm sure of so much.'"
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"I saw Effie's wicked intentions and did my best to thwart them," from The Romance of Mary Sain by C. H. Cochran Patrick, 1897.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Southerly Busters by Ironbark, 1878.
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| If you have a strange dream to share, send it along! |
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An illustration from Echoes from the Rocky Mountains by John Clampitt (1889). The caption reads: "A night of terror."
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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An illustration from The Man in the Moon, February (1848). The caption reads: "One of Mrs. Butler's 'Oh—oh's.'"
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"The golden secret is told," from The Trail of the Serpent by M. E. Braddon, 1861.
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* The most profound secrets lie not wholly in knowledge, said the poet. They lurk invisible in that vitalizing spark, intangible, yet as evident as the lightning—the seeker's soul. Solitary digging for facts can reward one with great discoveries, but true secrets are not discovered—they are shared, passed on in confidence from one to another. The genuine seeker listens attentively. No secret can be transcribed, save in code, lest it—by definition—cease to be. This Book of Whispers collects and encodes more than one hundred of humankind's most cherished secrets. To be privy to the topics alone is a supreme achievement, as each contains and nurtures the seed of its hidden truth. As possessor and thereby guardian of this knowledge, may you summon the courage to honor its secrets and to bequeath it to one worthy. |
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"The big sky-man that makes the moons," from Red Apple and Silver Bells by Hamish Hendry and illustrated by Alice B. Woodward, 1899.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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An illustration from The Comic History of England by Gilbert Abbott A'beckett (1897). The caption reads: "Reading the Dream."
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| If you have a strange dream to share, send it along! |
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Here's a precursor to the 1920's idiom 'down for the count,' from The Jorrocks Edition by Robert Smith Surtees (1892). The caption reads: "The countess was down." |
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An illustration from Marvels Over Our Heads by Georg Hartwig (1888). The caption reads: "Cave in dream lead mine, near Wirksworth, Derbyshire."
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"Here we see it in this picture. It looked as if the waves were angry." From Chambers's New Geographical Readers, 1891.
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From The Baby's Museum by Uncle Charlie, 1882.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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An illustration from Stanley in Afrika's Donkere Wildernissen by Henry Morten Stanley (1890).
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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An illustration from Legal and Other Lyrics by George Outram (1887). The caption reads: "Oh! what a deevil, &c."
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"That sail will never put you under the water again." Or, to quote Jeremiah 21:10, "And he shall burn it with fire."
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Here's how to imbue majesty into something as ordinary as a library stamp. (We find this majestic library stamp in the Commercial Intelligence Journal, 1921.) |
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Aaron Tucker has created this amazing site, Chessbard which translates chess games into poetry. You can play classic games, play a game against a chessbot, or modify games. The site then 'translates' the game into poems: both a White poem and a Black poem. Aaron has also written an essay about the project and its development.
I was delighted to be able to contribute to the site. I created some poems (by modifying a classic game) and wrote a discussion about what I did and about chess in general. Read it here.
Really fascinating.
And while you're thinking about chess, definitely check out the very lovely, Calvino-Chess Dictionary by Craig Conley. You can buy the book or read it online. I'd recommend the book!
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"The turquoise skull was on the table, and seated before it was my poor friend—dead!" From The Dwarf's Chamber and Other Stories by Fergus Hume, 1896.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"If round my footsteps dwell unholy sign or evil spell," from The Misfortunes of Elphin by Thomas Love Peacock, 1897.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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An illustration from The Oxford Thackeray.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From The Pyrenees by Henry George Blackburn, 1867.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"Life's Mystery": an illustration from The Works of Henry Rose (1890).
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front." — G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday |
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From Matthew Flinders by Robert Thynne, 1896. The text reads, "Behind this hand neither land nor strand. Jim's discovery in the ice plain."
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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An illustration from Poems by Charles Rosher (1897).
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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An illustration from The Sphinx-like Head by J. Harry Sugden (1896). The caption reads: "With a loud shout of joy from me, and a despairing shriek from her, I hurled her down the crater."
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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An illustration from The Burgess Nonsense Book (1901).
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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You've heard of magic dust, woofle dust, pixie dust, fairy dust, and foo foo powder, but these aren't mere figures of speech, as we see in the Catalogue of Sharp & Smith, 1889, p. 670 — a genuine magic atomizer. |
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"The butter flies," from Virginia Illustrated by David Hunter Strother, 1857.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"'You are making phantoms to frighten yourself with,' he exclaimed." From A Neglected Privilege by Maggie Swan, 1896.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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An illustration from An African Millionaire by Grant Allen (1897). The caption reads: "Césarine returned with a full, true, and particular list."
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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An illustration from Shafts from an Eastern Quiver by Charles Jodrell Mansford (1894). The caption reads: "Within the transparent rock we saw the form of a woman."
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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| This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea |
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"The sea had always possessed my thoughts": an illustration by Austin Osman Spare for Behind the Veil by Ethel Wheeler (1906).
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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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An illustration from Around the World on a Bicycle by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1887). The caption reads: "A Quarry of Startled Dears."
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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| Puzzles and Games :: Which is Funnier |
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 Which is funnier: a mastodon or a pterodactyl?Clue: This is according to absurdist playwright N. F. Simpson. Answer: pterodactyl (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.) Citation: N. F. Simpson, One-Way Pendulum. In Simpson's original version, the protagonists' daughter had changed herself into a mastodon on a whim, but in his film adaptation, Simpson revised the mastodon to a pterodactyl.
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"Ventilating engines, commonly used at close ends in metal mines," from Frost and Fire by John Francis Campbell, 1867.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"The heart of the typhoon," from A Diplomatist's Wife in Japan by Mary Crawford Fraser, 1899.
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An illustration from A Century of Ballads by John Ashton (1887).
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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An illustration from Humorous Poems by Thomas Hood (1893). The caption reads: "He saw a sailor mixing his grog."
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"Jimmy and his friends discover the jewelled skeleton," from An Ocean Outlaw by Hugh Saint Leger, 1897.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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 "I had no idea what she was talking about. But I was used to that. I love Adrienne madly, and when her eyes glimmer that way she can speak nonsense or Old Norse, and I won’t mind." — Jeremy Edwards, Spark My Moment
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This 1884 illustration from Dicks' English Library of Standard Works is a precursor to Freud's 1895 discovery of 'anxiety neurosis' syndrome or 'stage fright.'" The caption reads: "My performance will be a failure." |
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An illustration from Illustrated Penny Tales From the Strand Library (1894). The caption reads: "It was a terrible position."
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Sometimes folderol can use a good whack, as we see in this line from 1823. |
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"The night that changes not," from Songs of Love and Death by Margaret Armour, 1896.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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An illustration from Bohemian Paris of To-day by William Chambers Morrow and illustrated by Édouard Cucuel (1899). The caption reads: "In the passage to the death chamber."
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we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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An illustration from The Star of the Sea by N. Gregor (1897). The caption reads: "Sometimes he was heard returning to this world, shrieking in his passage through the air, and reascending to the skies again."
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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It's only funny if you knock 'em dead, from Basile the Jester by Joyce Emmerson Muddock, 1896. The caption reads, "He lay stunned." |
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The pen is mightier than the [s]word-smith. From Le Chemin des Écoliers by X. B. Saintine, 1861.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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An illustration from Paris Depuis Ses Origines Jusqu'en Ll'an 3000 by Léo Claretie (1886).
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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An illustration from A Bid for Fortune by Guy Newell Boothby (1895). The caption reads: "Tell me what we are to do!"
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"Wrestling in darkness of soul," from Kate Carnegie by Ian Maclaren, 1896.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From The Ingoldsby Legends by Thomas Ingoldsby and illustrated by George Cruikshank, 1866.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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An illustration from Fair Diana by Wanderer, illustrated by Georgina Bowers (1884).
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"They each sat watching their money." From The Phantom Ship by Frederick Marryat and illustrated by H. R. Millar, 1896.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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An illustration from Jack in the Box by Robert Ellice Mack (1888).
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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As above, so below: "Looking down into space." An illustration from Hartmann the Anarchist by Edward Douglas Fawcett (1893).
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we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"These experiments re-invoke puppetry's recurrent philosophical issues: what constitutes a puppet? What is human agency?" — The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance, 2014
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"A comprehensive yawn" from A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"The self and the other are just two sides of the same coin." |
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"The fourth of September, by André Gill," from Paris Herself Again by George Augustus Henry Fairfield, 1882.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"It was the cat": an illustration from A Tramp Abroad by Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1880).
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Every nightingale has a colon, which absorbs water and electrolytes. From The Nightingale by Richard Andre (1899). |
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An illustration from an 1841 issue of Punch magazine.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"Sejanus— 'Great and high, / The world knows only two, that's Me and I." From Tommy Toddles's Comic Almenak, 1862.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"The only way to insure that your ship will come in is to send out many ships and not to just rely on one." |
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An illustration from an 1885 issue of Frank Leslie's Pleasant Hours magazine. The caption reads: "Risen from the dead.—'And while, in horror unutterable, I stared, to those decaying jaws was borne a voice: 'William, I will wait for you—they wait.'"
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"Hanuman moving the mountains," from Following the Equator by Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1897.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"As I looked something dark and formless seemed to rise from the crock; but I saw nothing distinctly." From The Birthright by Joseph Hocking, 1897.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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An illustration from Charles O'Malley by Charles James Lever (1892), illustrated by H. K. Browne. The caption reads: "'Come forth, ye demons of the lower world,' said he."
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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 "It bears repeating that suicide is never the result of just one stressor."
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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This ornate capital S appears in The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray, 1858.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"A book is a myth we believe in when we're young. We stop treating it seriously as we get older." — The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973, Poland) |
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"He liked clocks": an illustration from A Tramp Abroad Etc. by Samuel Langorne Clemens (1897).
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"Humor can be a great defuser, but be careful; it's only funny if everyone laughs."
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