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Temporal Anomalies – March 3, 2016

"I hate that whenever you look at a clock, it shows a different time. What's the use of knowing what time it is, if it's already changing? And it's always later!"

—Tim Powers, Medusa's Web

Pictured, tapestry figures look at the faceless grandfather clock at Packwood House (England).

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#grandfather clock #out of time #tim powers #timelessness #packwood house #faceless clock #no time #temporal anomaly

Restoring the Lost Sense – October 18, 2015

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There is a "time of awkward silences," as Suzanne Brockmann has noted in Tall, Dark and Dangerous. Our illustration appears in St. Nicholas magazine, 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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#vintage illustration #clock face #faces in things #grandfather clock #1890s #illustration

Yearbook Weirdness – September 10, 2015

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Here's step one for time bending, from How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#time travel #vintage yearbook #yearbook #grandfather clock #hoodoo #time bending #stopping time #bend time #slowing time

Restoring the Lost Sense – March 29, 2015

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Here's "the end" from Sequelle, 1912.

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#vintage illustration #spooky #grandfather clock #the end #illustration #1910s

Restoring the Lost Sense – March 11, 2015

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From Kings of the Platform and Pulpit by Melville D. Landon, 1900.

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Restoring the Lost Sense – October 3, 2014

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From The Ingoldsby Legends by Thomas Ingoldsby and illustrated by George Cruikshank, 1866

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#vintage illustration #nightmare #time #fleeing #grandfather clock #1860s #deadline #illustration #pursued #running out of time

Book of Whispers – May 3, 2014

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One of the secrets of timelessness is to throw a shadow on the clock face. From Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1898). The caption reads: "So as to throw the shadow on the clock face."

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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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#vintage illustration #shadow #candle #grandfather clock #clockface #1890s #illustration

Restoring the Lost Sense – April 11, 2013

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An illustration from Told After Supper by Jerome K. Jerome (1891). The text reads: "Now is the Very Witching Time of Night."

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#spirits #vintage #grandfather clock #1890s #witching hour

Restoring the Lost Sense – December 9, 2012

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An illustration from an 1894 issue of Century Illustrated magazine. The caption reads: "There was a whir, whir, whir."

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Suddenly, A Shot Rang Out – March 6, 2012

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"And scarcely had the last stroke of the hour ceased to resound, when a revolver shot rang out!"

This illustration is from "The Eleventh Hour" by Edwin Balmer and Wililam B. MacHarg, in Hampton's magazine, 1910.