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Rhetorical Questions, Answered! –
August 11, 2015 |
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Just as diving into water is to seek life's secrets, and immersion in water is to purify or be reborn, "crossing the waters is to effect a transformation from one state to another" (El Palacio, 1992). If so, then what state has jurisdiction over the crossing of lakes Eerie and Ladoga? Answer: Freedonia, under the rule of Rufus T. Firefly.
(Our image appears in The British Isles, translated from Nouvelle Géographie Universelle by Ernest Georg Ravenstein, 1887.)
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Here's a precursor to the pushpin marker in Google Maps, from Millsaps College's Bobashela yearbook, 1905. (For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.)
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This May Surprise You –
March 30, 2015 |
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As we see in this vintage map, Florida once occupied most of North America. But one could also make an argument that most of North America was once Scotland, just as absurdist playwright N. F. Simpson has argued that the Mediterranean could technically fall under Scottish law:
Lawyer: It would be enough to show that it [the Mediterranean] is in what — for the present purposes — can be deemed to be Scotland, and here we might usefully explore the possibility that Scotland, as we know it, may not always have occupied the precise position north of the border that it is commonly thought of as occupying today. We are assisted here by the known fact that the general configuration of the Earth's surface, such as it is, was not arrived at overnight. It is the end product of a not unlengthy process involving widespread upheaval over a period of several millennia, during the course of which things were in a considerable state of flux ... and it should not be difficult to demonstrate as an a priori possibility that Scotland — or what was subsequently to become known as Scotland — might, in one of the remoter periods of geological time, have occupied, however fleetingly, and prior to making its journey northwards to the position on the map that it has occupied ever since, [the Mediterranean]. If so, there would be a strong prima facie case for a reappraisal of the whole situation with a view to bringing the whole matter fairly and squarely within the jurisdiction of the Scottish courts.... Senior: Sounds promising. Minister: Yes — I think one could give voice to a tentative eureka there.
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Restoring the Lost Sense –
January 10, 2015 |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought –
December 16, 2014 |
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Uncharted Territories –
October 16, 2014 |
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From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:
J explains: "Hope asserts in passing that 'there are generally two ways anywhere'—which might be a dull observation if it were strictly a metaphor, but which in context he means literally (if perhaps not only literally). So, yes, there are generally not three, not one, but exactly two ways to get from a given point A to a given point B on the map" (personal correspondence, May 1, 2013). The Anthony Hope quotation appears in Frivolous Cupid.
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