A class at the University of Southern California : Game Studies Seminar: Role-playing Games
What ho? The primary decree of the fisticuffs guild!
h/t our friends at San Diego’s Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore.
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"To write is to lose myself, yes, but everyone loses himself, because everything gets lost. I, however, lose myself without any joy—not like the river flowing into the sea for which it was secretly born, but like the puddle left on the beach by the high tide, its stranded water never returning to the ocean, but merely sinking into the sand."
— Fernando Pessoa, Book of Disquiet, Text 152 (via bookofpythia)
At Prayer. Fritz Bernhard Schurig (German, 1890-1971).
“To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.” — Victor Hugo
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Copy of the ‘Kelmscott Chaucer’, published by William Morris in 1896, his last major artistic project, at Wightwick Manor.
(Source: theenglishladye, via books-lover)
A humourous hooligan tattoo, typical in corrective labour camps in the north and the Taiga. The most common name for this tattoo is ‘Misha the accordion player’. The wearer was convicted for hooliganism.
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"In older education the teacher was measured by what he or she could do with a bright girl or boy… For the first time in the history of education teaching came to be measured, not by what could be done with the best, but by what could be done with the worst."
— Richard Powers, qtd. by Douglas Wilson in Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning (via joshbishopreads)
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Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna Romanova of Russia in 1914, coloured by me. {x}
