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.
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A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.
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 Violinist (1891). Sir Edward John Poynter (English, Neo-Classicism, 1836-1919). Oil on panel.
Poynter was second only to Frederic Leighton as an exponent of Victorian neo-classicism. His training as an artist took place partly in Europe; he coincided with Leighton in Rome in 1853 and spent the years 1856-59 as a student at Gleyre’s atelier in Paris.
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The musician too often neglects opportunities for extending his general knowledge and thus adding to his powers as a man. He is too ready to separate the man from the artist: he exalts the education of the artist at the expense of the education of the man, with the result that his views are warped and one-sided. His idiosyncrasies are passed off with the saying, “Oh, well, he is a musician; that is the artistic temperament.” The phrase “artistic temperament” is very often the substitute for saying, “He is irresponsible and lacking just a little in mental acumen.
-- Man First, Artist Afterwards, by Dr. C.H. Mills, The Violinist, 1912 (via songofthelark)
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