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playing his dress up games

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Lil brushy brush. Photo from my collection, no documented date/info.

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Department store workers, on their lunch break, Chattanooga, Tennessee - early 1900s

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“Er . . . what that glass for, sir?” “It’s a monocle,” said the captain. “It helps me see you, for which I am eternally grateful. I always say that if I had two I’d make a spectacle of myself.”

Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment

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August Sander

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The snap-beetle is also touching. Though it's a mere insect, it has apparently dedicated itself to the Buddhist Way, for it continually touches its forehead to the ground in prayer as it walks along.

The Pillow Book, Sei Shōnagon (c. 966-1017)

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My first Discworld book was the Wee Free Men. I loved it, and read it over and over again. But since that was the only one my local library had, for the longest time I thought it was a standalone. Imagine my delight when, years later, I discovered the rest of this fantastic series.

The City Watch books in particular struck a note with me, and they’ve quickly become some of my all time favorites. So of course I had to draw this to celebrate.

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“…tomorrow the sun will come up again, and I'm pretty sure that whatever happens we won't have found Freedom, and there won't be a whole lot of Justice, and I'm damn sure we won't have found Truth. But it's just possible that I might get a hard-boiled egg.”

—Sam Vimes, Night Watch

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Infuriating things- Thinking of one or two changes in the wording after you've sent a message to someone, or written and sent off a reply to someone's message. Having hurriedly sewn something, you're rather pleased with how nicely you've done it - but then when you come to pull out the needle, you find that you forgot to knot the thread when you began. It's also infuriating to discover you've sewn something inside out.

The Pillow Book, Sei Shōnagon (c. 966-1017)

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Masahiro is a great laughing-stock. I wonder how his parents must feel when they hear all the hilarity at their son's expense. People will call over some long-standing attendant of his and tease him. 'Why on earth are you in such a fellow's service?' they'll say. 'How does it feel?' He comes from a household where they prepare their clothes beautifully, and seeing him wearing those wonderfully coloured train-robes and elegant cloaks, so much finer than everyone else's, people sigh and say, 'If only they were on someone else instead of Masahiro!'

The Pillow Book, Sei Shōnagon (c. 966-1017)

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Mary Oliver, from “Whelks”, The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays

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朝は、水分。やうやう温くなりゆく寝室、すこし乾きて、家主に出させたる水道水の、細く滴りたる。

昼は煮干し。身のころはさらなり。粉もなほ、かほりの多く飛びちがひたる。また、ただ一つ二つなど、わずかにかじり行くも、をかし。頭のないも、をかし。

夕は、カリカリ。眠気のさして、顔と尾のいと近うなりたるに、カラカラと皿に落つとて、三つ四つ、二つ三つなど、飛び散るさへあはれなり。まいて、ウェットフードなるが、いと小さく添ゆるるは、いとをかし。腹満ちたりて、風の音、虫の音など、はた、言ふべきにあらず。

夜は、かつぶし。粉の降りたるは、言ふべきにもあらず。香りのいと高きも。またさらでも、いと遅きに、ハラヘリと乞い急かして、棚前で待つも、いとつきづきし。残少なになりて、かたちゆるびもていけば、よそうるものも、白き粉がちになりて、わろし。 オリジナルはこちら https://bungobungo.jp/text/hakbn/

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Illustrations from Stories from Hans Christian Andersen by Edmund Dulac (1911)

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Albert Harlingue, Jeunes femmes en costumes de cheval, Paris, 1930.

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Happy National Library Week!! A great time to ask everyone you know if they have a library card.

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Just finished Raven Stratagem and I’m obsessed with this series, so here’s a Kel Cheris and her nine-eyed Jedao shadow.

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Yamakawa Sutematsu (1860-1919).

First Japanese woman to graduate from university with a bachelor’s degree. Through her position as the wife of Iwao Oyama, who became an elder, she devoted herself to supporting nurse education and women’s education. Picture taken circa 1888