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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.

"Modern civilization aims at creating ever greater and greater artificial needs…it will always create more needs than it can supply…"

— Rene Guenon (via in-unita-sanguinem)

"Some people are already beginning to feel more or less confusedly that things cannot go on for ever in the way that they are doing and they even speak, as of something possible, of a bankruptcy of the western civilization, which no one would have dared to do a few years ago; but the real causes which may bring about this bankruptcy seem for the most part to escape them still."

— Rene Guenon (via in-unita-sanguinem)

(via gloriesofthewest)