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The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.

Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?

A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.

"The Carthusians have never paid much attention to the apparent sanctity of their members. They have always thought it more important to be saints than to be called saints—another point in which they agree with St. Benedict. Therefore the Carthusians have never taken any steps to procure the canonization of their saints. They do not even have a … private catalogue of the holiest men of the Order. When a monk of exceptional virtue dies, the highest public honor he receives in the Order is a laconic comment: laudabiliter vixit. In good American we would translate this as: ‘He did all right.’"

— Thomas Merton (via claireandeli)

"There is only one plot — things are not what they seem."

— Jim Thompson (via planb-becomeapirate)

(Source: writingquotes, via planb-becomeapirate)

thevictorianlady: Oscar Wilde in the spring of 1900, taken by Lord Alfred Douglas. This picture was taken about six months before Wilde’s death. He certainly looks heavier and more aged than in any other photograph I’ve ever seen of him.

thevictorianlady:

Oscar Wilde in the spring of 1900, taken by Lord Alfred Douglas.

This picture was taken about six months before Wilde’s death. He certainly looks heavier and more aged than in any other photograph I’ve ever seen of him.

(via theredshoes)

Word of the day

russiangrammar:

расстояние
rasstoyánie
distance, space, spacing, span, interval

Example sentences:

Мэри была убита выстрелом из пистолета в затылок с близкого расстояния.
Mary was killed with a pistol shot to the back of the head at close range.

Расстояние между звёздами измеряется световыми годами.
The distance between stars is measured in light years.

abystle: The Death of Richard II, Francis Wheatley, ca. 1792-1793.

abystle:

The Death of Richard II, Francis Wheatley, ca. 1792-1793.

(Source: centuriespast, via thewintercount)

thewintercount:

Nicholas I, the last (real) king of Montenegro

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_I_of_Montenegro

by-grace-of-god: (Painting: Our Lady in a Garland of Roses by Giovanni Battista Salvi)

by-grace-of-god:

(Painting: Our Lady in a Garland of Roses by Giovanni Battista Salvi)

(via flower-of-lys)

le-desir-de-lautre: Jean-Pierre Franque (French, 1774-1860), Allegory of the State of France before the Return from Egypt, 1810, oil on canvas, 261 x 326 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris.

le-desir-de-lautre:

Jean-Pierre Franque (French, 1774-1860), Allegory of the State of France before the Return from Egypt, 1810, oil on canvas, 261 x 326 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris.

(via chucrutypilsen)

jailagracedunearchiduchesse: Fashions of 1872

jailagracedunearchiduchesse:

Fashions of 1872

(via fuckyeahvictorians)

Miss Lily Elsie (1656 D)

Miss Lily Elsie (1656 D)

(Source: lilyelsie)