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You predicted correctly that I have a collection of vintage oracles and fortune tellers.

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Le rêve de Jacob — Marc Chagall (1887-1985), Russian

Signed, inscribed and dated Pour Benjamin Weiss / Marc Chagall / 1954-5 (lower right)

Gouache, brush and India ink over pencil on paper

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Cameos in gold setting X-Ray, 1896

From one of the first series of X-rays ever produced, by Josef Maria Eder (1855–1944), a director of an institute for graphic processes, and Eduard Valenta (1857–1937), a photochemist, both from Austria.

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Venus and The Pleiades

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The Forest Angel Chart (Knitting) by Melanie Nordberg

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Wiesbaden, Germany 1900

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A daily dose of Bach The Italian Concerto, BWV 971 - 2. Andante Composed for harpsichord, this is an arrangement for Oboe, Strings and Continuo Albrecht Mayer, oboe

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Double self portrait, photographer's name unknown. Hungary, 1920s.

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Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) - Concerto for Violin, Cello, Strings and Basso continuo in B-flat Major, RV 547, I. Allegro moderato. Performed by L'Arte dell'Arco on period instruments.

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Nebulous Time was now past; I crawled like a worm on it's belly through the clinging mud of common time and the bare trees showed only the dreary shapes of an eternal November of the heart, for now all the changes would henceforth be, as they had been before, absolutely predictable. And so I identified at last the flavour of my daily bread; it was and would be that of regret, that insatiable regret with which we acknowledge that the impossible is, per se, impossible.

Angela Carter, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (Penguin Modern Classic, p.270)

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"The state of love is like the South in Hui Shih's paradox: 'The South has at once a limit and no limit.' Lu Teming made the following commentary on this paradox: 'He spoke about the South but he was only taking it as an example. There is the mirror and the image but there is also the image of the image; two mirrors reflect each other and images may be multiplied without end.' Ours is a supreme encounter, Desiderio. We are two such disseminating mirrors."

In the looking glass of her eyes, I saw reflected my entire being whirl apart and reassemble itself innumerable times.

Angela Carter, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (Penguin Modern Classics, p.246)

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