"And I shall never pass this way again."  From Olivet Nazarene's 1975 yearbook.

The cover of Pfeiffer's 1971 yearbook, and the photo that inspired it.

Many, but crucially not all girls are less attractive when thet twist their feet awkwardly.  From The Business of Life by A. B. ZuTavern and A. E. Bullock and illustrated by Leo Thiele, 1936.

If we post only one conventional photo this year, why not of our favorite type of cat and catnap?  From College of William and Mary's 1973 yearbook.

"It's so hard to know the happinesses of a day until it's too late to appreciate them."  From Hiwassee's 1976 yearbook.

This skeleton-legged ghost haunts Worcester Polytechnic's 1967 yearbook.

How mysterious.  One is reminded of moonlit meetings in Twin Peaks' Glastonbury Grove.  From Worcester Polytechnic's 1967 yearbook.

It's only partially true that coins and flags have two sides.  Viewed from below, for example, a flag is like the shell of the lightning whelk (the predatory marine mollusk with the spiral carapace).  From Worcester Polytechnic's 1968 yearbook.

[For Adam.]

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to reveal the original photo.

"We are surrounded by distortions" (P. D. Ouspensky, A New Model of the Universe, 1938).  Image coutresy of the Costică Acsinte Archive.

"Showing how a lion is led into his den on a travelling menagerie," from Black and White Budget, 1902.

"[Time's] music moves our feet" (Edmund B. Spaeth, Collected Poems).  Our evidence is courtesy of the Costică Acsinte Archive.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to reveal the second photo.
William Burroughs plays a statue at Glastonbury Tor, summer solstice (identified elsewhere as 1972).

From Suggestive Therapeutics and Hypnotism by Herbert A. Parkyn, 1900.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click thrice to reveal the many moods of David Bennett.

Carrie Moore depicted in The Sketch, 1906.

A picture of Svengali used to induce hypnotic trance, from Suggestive Therapeutics and Hypnotism by Herbert A. Parkyn, 1900.

Hypnotizing one another, from Suggestive Therapeutics and Hypnotism by Herbert A. Parkyn, 1900.

Hypnosis by imaginary fumes, from Suggestive Therapeutics and Hypnotism by Herbert A. Parkyn, 1900.