"From the other world I come back to you."
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Black-tailed jackrabbit AKA Texian hare.
John Woodhouse Audubon, from The quadrupeds of North America vol. 3, by John James Audubon and John Bachman, New York, 1851.
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from The Waves, by Virginia Woolf
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Joseph Cornell holding an Untitled Bottle Object. Duane Michals. 1969
this isn't happiness.: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Notebooks
- Days of this February were white and magical, the nights were starry and crystalline. The town lay under a cold glory.
- Dyed Siberian horse.
- As thin as a repeated dream.
- The sea was coming up in little intimidating rushes.
- The island floated, a boat becalmed, upon the almost perceptible…
Unknown, Nuremberg Chronical 1439
Illustration on page 168 of Mathais Tanner’s Societas Jesu apostolorum imitatrix, depicting Father Petrus Mascarena (c. 1546-1597). In a darkly rendered engraving, Mascarena points heavenward in a curving gesture reminiscent of that of John the Baptist in traditional iconography. High above, an angel holds the victor’s crown of laurels, but the rest of the background is crowded with human bones, some seemingly floating in midair, others arranged in patterns of skulls and femurs suggestive of the assembling of relics in baroque settings such as St. Ursula’s Church in Cologne. Among the bones stands a skeleton holding a scythe, suggesting the inescapable nature of death and the fate that waits Mascarena and his seventeen companions. Unlike other illustrations in the Imitatrix that represent real or imagined events, this engraving presents an allegorical image of the concrete dangers that Jesuits faced.
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One of the first maps of the new world using a polar #map projection by Johannes Ruysch in 1508 #cartography #geography via @natgeomaps1508 Ruysch Map“One of the first maps of the new world, made by Johannes Ruysch using a polar projection. It includes an extensive view of South America, islands of the West Indies, and a portion of North America. The World Map from Ruysch appeared for the first time among the Tabulae Novae in some copies of the 1507 Rome edition of Ptolemy’s Geography. Ruysch’s map illustrates a number of significant geographic features more accurately than before, particularly along the easterly sea route to the Orient, which was of prime importance to early sixteenth-century Europeans.”
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“You never seem to be waiting for me, but we kept meeting at every turn of the paths. Behind every bush, at the foot of each statue, near every pond. It is as if it had been only you and I in all that garden.”
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The gnat stings the eyes of the lion.
John Leighton, from Moral emblems : with aphorisms, adages, and proverbs, of all ages and nations, translated and edited by Richard Pigot, London, 1860.
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The gnat stings the eyes of the lion.
John Leighton, from Moral emblems : with aphorisms, adages, and proverbs, of all ages and nations, translated and edited by Richard Pigot, London, 1860.
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Two dogges strive for a bone and the third taketh it away.
John Leighton, from Moral emblems : with aphorisms, adages, and proverbs, of all ages and nations, translated and edited by Richard Pigot, London, 1860.
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Alas for him who never sees
The stars shine through his cypress-trees!From Snow-bound : a winter idyl, by John Greenleaf Whittier, Boston, 1868.
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… Called up her girlhood memories
The huskings and the apple-bees
The sleigh rides and the summer sails
Weaving through all the poor details…From Snow-bound : a winter idyl, by John Greenleaf Whittier, Boston, 1868.
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