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This May Surprise You –
February 23, 2016 |
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Barrels of whiskey and moonshine are traditionally labeled with X's (one X being weakest and three X's being strongest, as we learn in One-Letter Words: A Dictionary). But lesser-known is that coffee used to be roasted to a XXXX strength. Our vintage coffee ad is from c. 1890. The four X's on the vintage Coca Cola postcard below are, we think, unrelated.
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Restoring the Lost Sense –
February 11, 2016 |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Restoring the Lost Sense –
February 9, 2016 |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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 Right Word –
December 9, 2015 |
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"You can't make a white plume from a crow's tail" (says an ad in The Oölogist, 1895). However, black is actually white, and here's the proof:
black = dark
dark = obscure
obscure = hidden
hidden = concealed
concealed = snug
snug = comfortable
comfortable = easy
easy = simple
simple = pure
pure = white
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