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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.

Le Breton, the famous blue and white stripe made famous by Coco Chanel and Jean Paul Gaultier‘s inspiration for this haute Spring Summer 2000 haute couture gown. This image was photographed by Stefano Pandini as part of Jean Paul Gaultier’s “Pain Couture” installation at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain. For me, this image evokes a feeling of the haute life in Paris – “but of course I wear my couture when I visit une boulangerie!”

Le Breton, the famous blue and white stripe made famous by Coco Chanel and Jean Paul Gaultier‘s inspiration for this haute Spring Summer 2000 haute couture gown. This image was photographed by Stefano Pandini as part of Jean Paul Gaultier’s “Pain Couture” installation at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain. For me, this image evokes a feeling of the haute life in Paris – “but of course I wear my couture when I visit une boulangerie!”

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perstephsanscouronne: Look from a recent shoot

perstephsanscouronne:

Look from a recent shoot

Richard Taylor from Leicester University outlines five pieces of evidence which suggest the skeleton may have belonged to Richard III

mediumaevum:

Here’s a follow up.

Video included.

credit: — valfraeyja

mediumaevum: The Two Princes Edward and Richard in the Tower, 1483 by Sir John Everett Millais 1878, part of the Royal Holloway picture collection

mediumaevum:

The Two Princes Edward and Richard in the Tower, 1483

by Sir John Everett Millais

1878, part of the Royal Holloway picture collection

amoderndandy: perstephsanscouronne: It’s all about wholesome extracurricular activities questionableadvice: ~ published by the U.S Public Health Service and the YMCA, 1919 via Social Welfare History Archives I have little experience with “constructive” work, but I would dare to guess that the people who published this probably never worked in a restaurant kitchen.

amoderndandy:

perstephsanscouronne:

It’s all about wholesome extracurricular activities

questionableadvice:

~ published by the U.S Public Health Service and the YMCA, 1919
via Social Welfare History Archives

I have little experience with “constructive” work, but I would dare to guess that the people who published this probably never worked in a restaurant kitchen.

perstephsanscouronne: questionableadvice: ~ Woman’s Own Book of Toilet Secrets, c. 189? via Digital Changeling

perstephsanscouronne:

questionableadvice:

~ Woman’s Own Book of Toilet Secrets, c. 189?
via Digital Changeling

"Only great minds can afford simple style."

— Stendhal (via modeart)

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winskp: zolotoivek: Mikhail Vrubel - Self-Portrait, 1900 One of the most under-appreciated artists of the turn of the century.

winskp:

zolotoivek:

Mikhail Vrubel - Self-Portrait, 1900

One of the most under-appreciated artists of the turn of the century.

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readingmarksonreading:      Pg. 529 of David Markson’s copy of The Web and the Rock by Thomas Wolfe:      On which Markson has placed the beginnings of a bracketed line that will go on from this page until pg. 236 of the book, encompassing a section of the text featuring the character Seamus Malone. —      On this page, which is almost entirely marked in the margins by the line, Thomas Wolfe has Seamus Malone ranting about T. S. Eliot:     “‘Mr. Eliot from Missouri, has become a Royalist! A Royalist, if you please,’ choked Mr. Malone, ‘and an Anglo-Catholic!’”      Earlier in the novel, Thomas Wolfe had written:     “—a royalist from Kansas City, a classicist from Nebraska, a fool from nowhere and from nothing.”     Which Richard S. Kennedy, in his book on Wolfe, The Window of Memory, said “is an unmistakable swing at Eliot.”      Royalist!      Anglo-Catholic!      Classicist!      In the preface to his own essay collection, For Lancelot Andrewes, Eliot himself claimed he was each of these three things:      “Classicist in literature, royalist in politics, and anglo-catholic in religion.”      In Markson’s Reader’s Block we find:     “Anglican. Royalist. Classicist.”     Written on pg. 56.     Obvious reference to “Mr. Eliot from Missouri.”

readingmarksonreading:

     Pg. 529 of David Markson’s copy of The Web and the Rock by Thomas Wolfe:

     On which Markson has placed the beginnings of a bracketed line that will go on from this page until pg. 236 of the book, encompassing a section of the text featuring the character Seamus Malone.

—

     On this page, which is almost entirely marked in the margins by the line, Thomas Wolfe has Seamus Malone ranting about T. S. Eliot:
     “‘Mr. Eliot from Missouri, has become a Royalist! A Royalist, if you please,’ choked Mr. Malone, ‘and an Anglo-Catholic!’”

     Earlier in the novel, Thomas Wolfe had written:
     “—a royalist from Kansas City, a classicist from Nebraska, a fool from nowhere and from nothing.”
     Which Richard S. Kennedy, in his book on Wolfe, The Window of Memory, said “is an unmistakable swing at Eliot.”

     Royalist!

     Anglo-Catholic!

     Classicist!

     In the preface to his own essay collection, For Lancelot Andrewes, Eliot himself claimed he was each of these three things:
     “Classicist in literature, royalist in politics, and anglo-catholic in religion.”

     In Markson’s Reader’s Block we find:
     “Anglican. Royalist. Classicist.”
     Written on pg. 56.
     Obvious reference to “Mr. Eliot from Missouri.”

whistlerian: Wyndham Lewis - Drawing of Ezra Pound (1915)

whistlerian:

Wyndham Lewis - Drawing of Ezra Pound (1915)