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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory – December 23, 2014

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"Seven or eight times they passed through the fire," from The Dacoit's Treasure by Henry Charles Moore, 1897.

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#vintage illustration #fire walker #fire ceremony #illustration #fire ritual #fire dancer #passing through the fire

This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea – December 14, 2014

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"A tongue of pale blue flame shivered on the truck of the mast," from Ia by Q. [A. T. Quiller-Couch], 1896.

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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 #book illustration #boat #illustration #quiller-couch #blue flame #blue fire

This May Surprise You – November 27, 2014

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Campfires and hearth fires are connected through what physicists now call "quantum entanglement," as we see in The Hudson by Wallace Bruce and illustrated by Alfred Fredericks, 1894.

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#vintage illustration #campfire #quantum entanglement #everything is connected #fire #theory of everything #quantum physics #illustration

Restoring the Lost Sense – November 24, 2014

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"'It burns bravely,' laughed the old woman." From Bladys of the Stewponey by Sabine Baring-Gould and illustrated by F. H. Townsend, 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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#vintage illustration #witch #witchcraft #soothsayer #crone #hag #wise woman #illustration #fire divination

This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea – September 17, 2014

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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."

From Gryll Grange by Thomas Love Peacock, 1896.

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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 #illustration #burn it with fire

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory – September 2, 2014

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From Funny Books for Boys and Girls, 1856.

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#vintage illustration #cautionary #cats #illustration #self immolation #burning #caught on fire #burning alive #children's book

Restoring the Lost Sense – July 6, 2014

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An illustration from The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith (1888). The caption reads: "'Now,' cried I, holding up my children, 'now let the flames burn on, and all my possessions perish.'"

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#vintage illustration #fire #illustration #burn it with fire #burn it all

Restoring the Lost Sense – January 25, 2014

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An illustration from The Mahatma and the Hare: A Dream Story by H. Rider Haggard (1911). The caption reads: "Guided, guarded by the spirits of dead suns."

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#spirits #fire spirit #solar deity #guardians #vintage #sun god #illustration #Rider Haggard #dead sun

Restoring the Lost Sense – November 30, 2013

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An illustration from Parents and Children (1873). The caption reads: "In a moment Maurice was on fire!"

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#vintage illustration #on fire #illustration

Restoring the Lost Sense – November 18, 2013

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An illustration from She by Henry Rider Haggard. The caption reads: "I saw the fire run up her form."

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#fire #vintage #illustration #Rider Haggard

Restoring the Lost Sense – October 9, 2013

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An illustration from She by Henry Rider Haggard. The caption reads: "Curse her! May she be everlastingly accursed!"

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#fire #ritual #vintage #curse #illustration #Rider Haggard

Always Remember – June 29, 2013

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"Always remember that all fires are the same size at the start."
—A Manual of Fire Department Equipment and Practice

Photo by Cali4beach.

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#fire #candle

Restoring the Lost Sense – May 6, 2013

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An illustration from an 1850 issue of Punch magazine.

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#vintage illustration #fire bird

Restoring the Lost Sense – November 29, 2012

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An illustration from an 1897 issue of Harper's magazine.

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#conjuration #horse #vintage #native american #fire ceremony

Restoring the Lost Sense – April 19, 2012

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An illustration from an 1878 issue of Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly magazine. The caption reads: "In love with an automaton. — Through the stifling cloud of bituminous smoke, he scarcely perceived what manner of being it was. He caught it up in his arms, and bore it through the passage, and down the stairs."

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#vintage illustration #fire

Staring Into the Depths – December 23, 2011

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An illustration from an 1896 issue of Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly magazine.

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[The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]

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#vintage illustration #fireplace #burned alive #set on fire

Restoring the Lost Sense – June 7, 2011

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We would swear this illustration of a fire eater is dated "1967," though the issue of Cosmopolitan in question was published in May 1900. Apparently, an artist is only as far ahead of his time as his autograph dates him. (Note that in 1902, Georges Melies will film his classic A Trip to the Moon, which will also be exactly sixty-seven years ahead of its time.)

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Bob responds:

That performer is a fire eating magician! The mouth of the performer is functioning as a hat. The fire appears to have taken a specific shape of a rabbit: hand holding its rear end, paws reaching back to the performer's mouth, and two ears towering up from the too-small head. Not bad for the shaping of a flame.

And I can believe in anything else I want too.

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#vintage illustration #magician #vintage magic #1900s #illustration #fire eater

Forgotten Wisdom – October 13, 2008

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From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:

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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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#venn diagram #martha brockenbrough #elton john #burning clown #johnny cash #ring of fire