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1921: Sweet Monsters

Posted on March 25, 2018 by corvusfugit

Rose O’Neill: Man and Earth (1921)—from a series entitled Sweet Monsters.

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1921: She Whipped up the Snakes and Ascended High Over the City

Posted on March 24, 2018 by corvusfugit

An illustration for Nathanial Hawthorne’s Tanglewood Tales by Virginia Frances Sterrett (1921). Found on Public Domain Review.

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1816: The Visions of Thomas Martin

Posted on March 23, 2018 by corvusfugit

Thomas Martin was born in Gallardon, France in 1783. Beginning in 1816, he began to see visions of an elegantly dressed young man who called himself the Archangel Raphael. The youth commanded Martin to travel to Paris to see King … Continue reading →

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2018: The Sky

Posted on March 22, 2018 by corvusfugit

The Sky. Part of a series.

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1929: From a Paris Plane

Posted on March 22, 2018 by corvusfugit

Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson: From a Paris Plane (1929)

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1888: Lilies

Posted on March 18, 2018 by corvusfugit

Charles Courtney Curran: Lotus Lilies (1888)

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2001: Was the Silence Gloomy?

Posted on March 17, 2018 by corvusfugit

Gilbert Sorrentino’s 2001 novel Gold Fools is written entirely in questions. Here are the opening paragraphs: Were Nort Shannon, Dick Shannon, and Bud Merkel exceptionally morose as they sat before the small bunkhouse and about the flames of the blazing … Continue reading →

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1902: Vines

Posted on March 13, 2018 by corvusfugit

Paul Ranson: Vines (c. 1902)

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2018: The Sky

Posted on March 11, 2018 by corvusfugit

Today’s sky. More here.

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1997: Translation / Transformation

Posted on March 11, 2018 by corvusfugit

In a 1997 essay on translation, the writer Harry Mathews cites Marcel Benabou’s version of Keats’s “A thing of beauty is a joy forever”: Ah, singe débotté, / Hisse un jouet fort et vert! It’s not quite a translation: the … Continue reading →

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