I am an Attendant of the Borgesian Circulating Depository. Duties: 1. honoring visionary ancients who were centuries or millennia before their time; 2. tilting the game board so as to cast everything in a new light; 3. celebrating allegory and metaphor as scenic shortcuts to wisdom; 4. discovering the macrocosm in the microcosm; 5. measuring non-material forces which nonetheless carry weight (Umberto Eco); 6. tracking extraordinary tempests in mundane teacups; 7. finding mystical analogues to scientific breakthroughs—putting the super into the natural, the other into the worldly, the meta into the physical, the para into the normal, the magical into realism; 8. puzzling over hidden, deeper meaning; 9. carrying the key, even when the lock has been lost; 10. identifying archetypes at play; 11. studying the legend, even when the map is blank; 12. searching through the deepest shadows for the bright light that cast them; 13. delving into the unfathomable in wordless awe of the inexplicable; 14. photographing background images for the insides of mystery boxes; 15. offering the inscrutable its due scrutiny; 16. endowing branches of Borgesian catacombs; 17. diagramming the sacred syllables in the mumbo jumbo; 18. believing as many as six impossible things before breakfast; 19. building 3D models of M.C. Escher's visual illusions; 20. crafting something out of nothing; 21. designing floor plans for memory palaces; 15. plundering cultural detritus; 16. bringing warmth to fuzzy logic; 17. looking through trompe l'oeil windows; 18. freeing radicals; 19. centering on marginalia; 20. navigating the ocean that roars within the seashell; 21. making the past perfect and the future less tense; 22. seeking a grand unification of hard science, soft science, and ethereal science; 23. resisting the belligerence of ignorance; 24. erecting signs on dotted lines; 25. taking a stand for poetic justice; 26. tracing constellations in the starry-eyed; 27. fighting to cure anhedonia; 28. gettin...
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It's cracked: vintage thin ice imagery.
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From laughing cows to holy cows to cows that jumped over the moon: a collection of vintage cow imagery.
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Surreal: vintage surrealism imagery.
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My collection of vintage fish imagery is swimming along.
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Here's looking at you: over 1,000 vintage "faces in things".
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The most intriguing vintage masks I’ve encountered are here.
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Home to roost: vintage nests.
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Not exactly in Kansas: my collection of vintage Wizard of Oz imagery.
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Sometimes there's nowhere else to go but up a tree.
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UFOs, aliens, and things that go gzpxllztt in the night: this vintage UFO gallery is worth an encounter. (For the meaning of “gzpxllztt,” see the dictionary of all-consonant words.)
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From smoke rings to holy smokes, here's a smoldering gallery of vintage smoke.
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Here are the vintage crows, ravens, and blackbirds we’ve spoken with.
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If you like crystal balls as much as I do, gaze at my collection of vintage crystal ball imagery.
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A nephew of Old Man Winter: vintage Jack Frost imagery.
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Vintage elves and gnomes I've encountered in my esoteric research.
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My modest collection of vintage poets and poetry.
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