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Staring into the depths: an illustration from a 1915 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine. The caption reads: "What had she seen beyond the candle-flame? It is the strange that invests visions with poignancy."
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Here's a form of cartoon swearing ("maledicta") from Metropolitan Magazine, 1911 — perhaps an exclamation of "Dingbat!" without the use of any dingbats. The caption says it's a verb, and the "ding" part of "dingbat" probably traces back to the obsolete meaning "to deal a heavy blow."
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From Samuel Orchart Beeton's Book of Jokes and Jests: Dionysius, the tyrant of Syracuse, was tormented by the conspiracies incessantly formed against his throne and person. One day a man presented himself at a public levee, and told the monarch that he knew of a means by which the monarch might discover any conspiracy against him, and that for a certain sum of money he would reveal it to him. Dionysius promised to give him what he asked, upon which the man, taking him aside, said to him, "I possess no such secret, but if you tell your subjects that I have revealed to you one that is infallible, no one will henceforth dare to conspire against you." Dionysius thought the advice excellent, adopted it, paid the money, and lived tranquilly thereafter.
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An illustration from a 1905 issue of Metropolitan magazine.
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Pleasantries about the weather need not be dispassionate, as we see in the caption to this illustration from Windsor magazine, 1908.
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A naked I under the naked eye. From Life magazine, 1911.
My dream was concupiscent.
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The brace pictured here marks the space of six seconds. It's a "thrill unit" (what Wendy Swanscombe calls a placet [Latin for "it pleases"]). From St. Nicholas magazine, 1904.
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An illustration from a 1907 issue of Metropolitan magazine. The caption reads: "Bill and the preacher rose rigidly in unison and huddled terror-stricken together."
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An illustration from a 1906 issue of Metropolitan magazine. The caption reads: "The gods of the North were dancing beyond their walls of eternal ice."
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My dream was cloudy.
An illustration from The Canadian Magazine, 1897. The caption reads, "He was punctuating his sentences, deliberately, with clouds of tobacco smoke."
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Unencumbered by linear time, recording artist Ken Clinger adapted and covered a song we wrote 14 years ago, " Legend of the Map." Interestingly*, all references to Esperanto have been erased! *Given that the song is about Esperanto, and given that Ken Clinger is a student of Esperanto. |
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An illustration from a 1904 issue of Metropolitan magazine. The caption reads: "He laughed when he saw me."
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