#John M Kelly Library

[concretegrape]

John M Kelly Library, University of Toronto

[hotvintagepoll]

which streaming service has the most vintage movies? If you don't know, maybe your followers could answer? 🙏

Ooh hoo hoo you asked and I'll answer!!

I actually made a post like this for the hot men tournament, but I can't find it now so I'll do it again from scratch. The short answer is that I don't know of any one streaming service that has all the old vintage movies—but most streaming services have a "classics" genre category that can get you started. Here's a small selection of what you can find on different streaming services:

TUBI (free):

The Adventures of Robin Hood (Olivia de Havilland)

A Streetcar Named Desire (Vivien Leigh)

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Jane Powell, Julie Newmar)

North by Northwest (Eva Marie Saint)

The Music Man (Shirley Jones)

The Women (Norma Shearer, Rosalind Russell, Joan Crawford, Joan Fontaine, Paulette Goddard, several other hotties in small parts)

The Philadelphia Story (Katharine Hepburn, Ruth Hussey)

Notorious (Ingrid Bergman)

Bell, Book, and Candle (Kim Novak, Elsa Lanchester)

The Talk of the Town (Jean Arthur)

Dark Victory (Bette Davis)

Stray Dog (Keiko Awaji)

Some Like It Hot (Marilyn Monroe)

Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (Sophia Loren)

Dirty Girtie From Harlem USA (Francine Everett)

Passport (Madhubala)

Dark Passage (Lauren Bacall)

Sepia Cinderella (Sheila Guyse)

On The Town (Ann Miller, Vera-Ellen, Betty Garrett)

The Bandwagon (Cyd Charisse)

Devar (Sharmila Tagore)

Reet-Petite and Gone (June Richmond)

The Postman Always Rings Twice (Lana Turner)

KANOPY (free through some libraries):

Dial M for Murder (Grace Kelly)

His Girl Friday (Rosalind Russell)

Ball of Fire (Barbara Stanwyck)

Black Orpheus (Marpessa Dawn)

Flower Drum Song (Reiko Sato, Nancy Kwan, Miyoshi Umeki)

Marriage Italian Style (Sophia Loren)

The Rose Tattoo (Anna Magnani)

Tokyo Story (Setsuko Hara)

War and Peace (Audrey Hepburn, Anita Ekberg)

Salt of the Earth (Rosaura Revueltas)

Metropolis (Brigitte Helm)

The Red Shoes (Moira Shearer)

HOOPLA (free through some libraries):

The Court Jester (Angela Lansbury, Glynis Johns)

Sunset Boulevard (Gloria Swanson)

A Place in the Sun (Elizabeth Taylor)

Barefoot in the Park (Jane Fonda)

The Barefoot Contessa (Ava Gardner)

Wings (Clara Bow)

YOUTUBE (has a lot of older movies that have slipped through copyright/are still up for some reason):

Charade (Audrey Hepburn)

Story Weather (Lena Horne)

Gilda (Rita Hayworth)

Rebecca (Joan Fontaine)

This entire playlist of Indian cinema that I just found (Madhubala, Waheeda Rehman, Nargis, Meena Kumari, etc.)

And that's just a small sample. There is also always your local library for physical DVDs, the Internet Archive, and....other methods.....if you know exactly what you're looking for.

I haven't seen all of these movies, so don't consider them personal recommendations—these are just famous movies with our hotties in them, so please be careful if you have content warnings. Good luck and have fun!

EDIT 5/16: Added a few more movies to the different sections, but this is still just a small selection of what the different streaming services have. Good luck!

[lboogie1906]

Elizabeth Catlett (April 15, 1915 – April 2, 2012) was a political expressionist sculptor and printmaker. She was born to John and Mary Catlett who were public school teachers in DC. She was the youngest of three children. After graduating from Dunbar High School, she studied Design and Drawing at Howard University. She graduated cum laude, after changing her major to Painting. She became the first student to receive an MFA in Sculpting from the University of Iowa.

She studied ceramics at the Art Institute of Chicago, followed by the study of lithography at the Arts Students League, she was married to fellow artist Charles White.

She began focusing her sculptures on African American women. Her thesis project, a limestone sculpture titled Mother and Child, won a sculpture prize at the 1940 American Negro Exposition. During WWII she taught art at Prairie View A&M College, Dillard University, and Hampton Institute as well as the Carver School.

She spent the majority of her adult life in Mexico, after winning a Rosenwald Fund Fellowship in 1946 to study wood and ceramic sculpting at the Escuela de Pintura y Escultura in Esmerelda. She married artist Francisco Victor Mora (1947) and became a Mexican citizen and they had three sons including Juan Mora Catlett, a film director. She became involved with the People’s Graphic Arts Workshop.

She taught at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where she became the first female professor of sculpture. She retired to Cuernavaca, Morelos in 1975. Her artwork did not attain the same degree of fame in the US, her sculptures were selected for an exhibition at New York’s June Kelly Gallery. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions in Cleveland, San Francisco, Chicago, and Charlotte, and she has works featured in the collections of the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, and New York’s Metropolitan Museum and Museum of Modern Art. Her African American-inspired sculptures and prints have been recognized by the Women’s Caucus for Art and the International Sculpture Center, from whom she received the 2003 Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #deltasigmatheta

[bookmaven]

JUDGEMENT NIGHT by C.L. Moore (New York: Gnome Press, ) Cover art by Frank Kelly Freas.

Astounding Science-Fiction v31 #6, August 1943 edited by John W. Campbell, Jr. Cover by William Timmins

JUDGEMENT NIGHT by C.L. Moore. Illustrated by A. Williams [Part 1 of 2]

“The Mutant’s Brother” by Fritz Leiber, Jr. Illustrated by F. Kramer

“One-Way Trip” by Anthony Boucher. Illustrated by Kolliker

“Endowment Policy” by Lewis Padgett. Illustrated by Hall

“M 33 in Andromeda” by A.E. van Vogt. Illustrated by A. Williams [Beagle]

“When Is When?” by Malcolm Jameson. Illustrated by F. Kramer [Anachron, Inc.]

(New York: Popular Library, 1965) Cover artist unknown. // [aka LA NUIT DU JUGEMENT] (Paris: J’ai Lu, 1966) Cover art by Wojtek Siudmak.

[thelonecalzone]

The Unaired Two-Page Conversation

I think we're past the point of possible spoilers, so as promised: the 2pg book conversation that was cut for time (and realism). Originally, I was experimenting with "unsent" books as part of the conversations, but I thought it would ultimately be too confusing and opted not to use that, so anything you see with a strikethrough is an "unsent" book.

(If this text formatting is ultra zany and hard to read, someone please tell me and I'll make it more regular. Allison is Blue, Patty is Red... for reasons... 🫠)

Allison: It’s Lonely at the Center of the Earth, by Zoe Thorogood

Patty: Not Here, by Hieu Minh Nguyen

Allison: Tell Me Everything, by Minka Kelly

Patty: Daily Rituals, by Phoebe Garnsworthy

Patty: Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, ZZ Packer

Patty: Crime, by Irvine Welsh

Allison: Without Me? by Chelle Bliss

Allison: Exciting Times, by Naoise Dolan

Patty: Not Without You, by Harriet Evans

Patty: The Page Turner, by David Leavitt

Allison: I Got a Job and It Wasn’t That Bad, by Scott Dikkers

Patty: Really Moving On, by Pierre Jeanty

Patty: What Kind of Job Can a Monkey Do? by Sato Akira

Allison: Hey Rick! Don’t Be So Rude! by Alyssa Thompson

Patty: I Like Monkeys, by Peter Hansard

Allison: So You Like Me Too, by OPR

Patty: The Miseducation of Cameron Post, by Emily M. Danforth

Allison: Just Say Yes, by Niobia Bryant

Patty: Yes, Chef, by Marcus Samuelsson

Patty: Get to the Point, by Joel Schwartzberg

Allison: I Miss You, by Pat Thomas

Allison: Without You, by Saskia Sarginson

Allison: You’re, by Keisha Ervin

Allison: I Got My Dream Job and So Can You, by Pete Leibman 

Patty: Super Spy, by Matt Kindt

Allison: The Librarian Spy, by Madeline Martin

Patty: For the Love of Books, by Graham Tarrant

Allison: Reminds Me of You, by Retno Handini

Allison: For the Thrill of It, by Simon Baatz

Patty: Run Towards the Danger, by Sarah Polley

Allison: Risking it All, by Tessa Bailey

Patty: Risk (With Me), by Sue Wilder

Patty: Ambitious Girl, by Meena Harris

Allison: Yeah, Right, by Jim and Helen Fox

Patty: The Follow-Through Factor: Getting from Doubt to Done, by Gene C. Hayden

Allison: A Stroke of Dumb Luck, by Shiloh Walker

Patty: Credit Where Credit is Due, by Frank Casey

Allison: Optimists Die First, by Susin Neilsen

Patty: The Price of Immortality, by Peter Ward

Allison: Death Visits the Hair Salon, by Amy Anderson

Patty: Murder in the Library, by Katie Gayle

Allison: Sounds Like Fun, by Bryan Moriarty

Patty: I Have More Fun With You Than Anybody, by Lige Clark

Patty: Certifiably Insane, by Arthur W. Bahr

Allison: Charming as a Verb, by Ben Philippe

Patty: How Do You Manage? by John Nicholson

Allison: Liquor, by Poppy Z. Brite

Patty: Hardly Know Her, by Laura Lippman

Allison: Don’t Be Gross, by Barbara Bakos

Patty: It’s Just Anatomy! by Ellen

Allison: Rough Transition, by Patrick Kelley

Patty: Some Girls Like it Rough, by Marlo Peterson

Allison: What Sort of Girls Were They? by Petrea Leslie

Patty: Girls with Bright Futures, by Tracy Dobmeier

Allison: I’m a Little Ghost and I Like the Dark, by Lynda Kimmel

Patty: Dark As the Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid, by Malcolm Lowrey

Allison: Murder in the Dark, by Simon R. Green

Patty: My Job Was To Bring The Shovel, by Randall M. Rueff

Allison: The Complete Accomplice, by Steve Aylett

Patty: The Magician’s Assistant, by Ann Patchett

Allison: The Witch’s Familiar, by Raven Grimassi

Patty: Witch Minion, by Lissa Kasey

Allison: These Witches Don’t Burn, by Isabel Sterling

Patty: The Drowning Kind, by Jennifer McMahon

Allison: A Touch Morbid, by Leah Clifford

Patty: Lucy Clark Will Not Apologize, by Margo Rabb

Allison: I Wonder What She’s Doing Tonight, by James Hold

Patty: Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel, by R. H. Sin

Allison: Sounds Perfect, by Ashley Boren

Patty: How I Made a Friend, Daniel Georges

Allison: Good For You (Between the Lines), by Tammara Webber

Patty: We’re Very Good Friends, by P.K. Hallinan

Allison: Sounds Fake, But Okay, by Sarah Costello

Patty: What If It’s True? by Charles Martin

Allison: What If It Wasn’t? by Ivan Itch

Patty: Why Do You Care? by Saju Skaria

Allison: I’m Fine and Neither Are You, by Camille Pagán

Allison: The Replacement Part, by Nora Wylde

Patty: Just a Friend, by Ashley Nicole

Allison: How to Kill Your Best Friend, by Lexie Elliott

Patty: You’re All Just Jealous of My Jetpack, by Tom Gauld

Allison: Dead Jealous, by Sharon Jones

Patty: You’ve Got to Have Friends, by Delbert George Fitzpenfield Anthony

Allison: Everything I Need I Get From You, by Kaitlyn Tiffany

Allison: Among Other Things, by Robert Long Foreman

Allison: Truths I Learned from Sam, ​​by Kristin Butcher

Patty: The Idiot King, by Patty Jansen

Allison: He Helped Me Climb the Mountain, by Betty E. Wright

Patty: The Man Who Pushed His Wife off a Cliff, by Will D. Burn

Patty: Men are Trash, by Salman Faris 

Patty: And That’s Why I Think I Prefer A Rainbow Horse, by Tiarra Nazario

Patty: Sam Houston’s Wife, by William Seale

Allison: What About Her, by Emma Tharpe

Patty: Amelia Bedelia Sleeps Over, by Herman Parish

Patty: The Undead in my Bed, by Katie McAlister

Allison: Sleeping with the Enemy, by Nancy Price

Allison: How Could You Do That?! by Laura Schlessinger

Allison: How Could You Murder Us? by Charae Lewis

Allison: Why Her? by Nicki Koziarz

Allison: I Hate You, Don’t Leave Me, by Jerold J. Kreisman

Patty: I Was Joking, Of Course, by Paul Jennings

Allison: Liar, by Tate James

Patty: What if I Say the Wrong Thing? by Verna A Myers

Allison: Don’t Look Back, by Josh Lanyon

Patty: Come Back, by Sally Crosiar

Patty: SHIT, by Shahnon Ahmad

Patty: Barbie: It Takes Two, by Grace Baranowski

Allison: I Changed My Mind, by Jimmy Evans

Allison: Allison Hewitt Is Trapped, by Madeleine Roux

Patty: Are You Still There, by Sara Lynn Schreeger

Patty: Wait for Me, by Caroline Leech

Allison: Look Back, by Tatsuki Fujimoto

[linus-wickworth]

Books I Read in May

5 stars:

Never Rest by Marshall Thornton

December Park by Ronald Malfi

Heartstopper 1-4 by Alice Oseman (Reread)

All That's Left in the World by Erik J. Brown (Reread)

What I Was by Meg Rosoff

The Girl in the Box by Ouida Sebestyen

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb

4.5 stars:

House of Stairs by William Sleator

Mosquitoland by David Arnold

Lose You to Find Me by Erik J. Brown

Spud: Exit, Pursued By A Bear by John van de Ruit

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

In the Forest by Edna O'Brien

Tales of the Peculiar by Ransom Riggs

They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera (Reread)

4 stars:

The Spuddy by Lillian Beckwith

Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson

Goodbye Days by Jeff Zentner

Hollow City by Ransom Riggs

Tales of King Arthur by James Riordan

Ethan by Ryan Loveless

Hit and Run by R. L. Stine

Street Child by Berlie Doherty

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Reckless Afterlife of Harriet Stoker by Lauren James

The Dogs by Allan Stratton

On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer

Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets by Evan Roskos

This Might Hurt a Bit by Doogie Horner

3.5 stars:

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

A Lite Too Bright by Samuel Miller

Library of Souls by Ransom Riggs

Hostage by Karen Tayleur

Game As Ned by Tim Pegler

3 stars:

Prove Yourself a Hero by K.M. Peyton

Me, The Missing, and the Dead by Jenny Valentine

Five Have a Wonderful Time by Enid Blyton

Five Go Down to the Sea by Enid Blyton

2.5 stars:

The Unspoken by Thomas Fahy

The Boy with the Snowgrass Hair by Elsie Locke

Stranded on Terror Island by Lee Roddy

Compulsion by Tania Kelly Roxborogh

The Siege of Trapp's Mill by Annabel Farjeon

Saving Grace by Darlene Ryan

2 stars:

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North

If I Love You, Am I Trapped Forever? by M. E. Kerr

Stony Heart Country by David Metzenthen

1.5 stars:

Avi Cantor Has Six Months to Live by Sacha Lamb

[bigriverbindery]

Attended a great workshop on remoistenable tissue with @rosebeersbooks today. A fun day of conservation talk and hands-on practice. Thanks for the great instruction Kristine. #bookconservation #paperconservation #bookarts #japanesetissue #japanesepaper (at John M. Kelly Library) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqEqqI7MItK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[padawan-historian]

“How to learn about U.S. history without ever having to read anything written by an old white dude ever again; a working list,” with bookshop links; find these books at your local black bookstore or local library. Amplify Black historians and antiracist scholars ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter Godwin Woodson (link to bookshop x)

Before the Mayflower: A History of the Negro in America, 1619-1962 by Lerone Bennett (link to bookshop x)

North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States by Leon F. Litwack (link to bookshop x)

Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D. by Chancellor Williams (link to bookshop x)

The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South. Revised & Enlarged Edition by John W. Blassingame (link to bookshop x)

Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South by Deborah Gray White (link to bookshop x)

Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South by Stephanie McCurry (link to bookshop x)

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne-Dunbar Ortiz (link to bookshop x)

Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar (link to bookshop x)

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi (link to bookshop x)

The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America by Andrés Reséndez (link to bookshop x)

An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz  (link to bookshop x)

Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology by Deirdre Cooper Owens (link to bookshop x)

America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States by Erika Lee (link to bookshop x)

In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America by Kabria Baumgartner (link to bookshop x)

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed (link to bookshop x)

Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South by Keri Leigh Merritt (link to bookshop x)

Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century by Tera W Hunter (link to bookshop x)

Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage by Sowande' M. Mustakeem (link to bookshop x)

Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence by Kellie Carter Jackson (link to bookshop x)

The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation by Thavolia Glymph (link to bookshop x)

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent by Isabel Wilkerson (link to bookshop x)

The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century by P. Gabrielle Foreman and Jim Casey (link to bookshop x)

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall (link to bookshop x)

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 edited by Ibram X. Kendi & Keisha Blain (link to bookshop x)

[meganwhalenturner]

Please never vote for any of these people again

Sorry, St Bluebell isn’t here today.  Besides how much I hate Hobby Lobby, the one potentially rage inducing issue I bring up on this site is voting.  After I have encouraged all of you to register and cast your votes, these people voted to nullify the election results in states where their candidate didn’t win.  They did so *after* the assault on the Capitol Building, after they had seen the consequences of their attempt to undermine the peaceful transfer of power in this country.

Every year our government becomes more powerful, gains more power over the daily lives of its citizens.  Its knows where you live, it knows who you talk to on the phone, it knows what library books you checked out, it knows what you had for breakfast.  The most important issue facing us today is whether we, the people, will ensure that we have a government we can trust before we lose all control of it.  Every single one of these people should be primaried by their own party and never allowed to hold any public office again.

Senate

Tommy Tuberville, Ala.

Rick Scott, Fla.

Roger Marshall, Kan.

John Kennedy, La.

Cindy Hyde-Smith, Miss.

Josh Hawley, Mo.

Ted Cruz, Texas

Cynthia Lummis, Wyo.

House

Robert B. Aderholt, Ala.

Mo Brooks, Ala.

Jerry Carl, Ala.

Barry Moore, Ala.

Gary Palmer, Ala.

Mike Rogers, Ala.

Andy Biggs, Ariz.

Paul Gosar, Ariz.

Debbie Lesko, Ariz.

David Schweikert, Ariz.

Rick Crawford, Ark.

Ken Calvert, Calif.

Mike Garcia, Calif.

Darrell Issa, Calif.

Doug LaMalfa, Calif.

Kevin McCarthy, Calif.

Devin Nunes, Calif.

Jay Obernolte, Calif.

Lauren Boebert, Colo.

Doug Lamborn, Colo.

Kat Cammack, Fla.

Mario Diaz-Balart, Fla.

Byron Donalds, Fla.

Neal Dunn, Fla.

Scott Franklin, Fla.

Matt Gaetz, Fla.

Carlos Gimenez, Fla.

Brian Mast, Fla.

Bill Posey, Fla.

John Rutherford, Fla.

Greg Steube, Fla.

Daniel Webster, Fla.

Rick Allen, Ga.

Earl L. "Buddy" Carter, Ga.

Andrew Clyde, Ga.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Ga.

Jody Hice, Ga.

Barry Loudermilk, Ga.

Russ Fulcher, Idaho

Mike Bost, Ill.

Mary Miller, Ill.

Jim Baird, Ind.

Jim Banks, Ind.

Greg Pence, Ind.

Jackie Walorski, Ind.

Ron Estes, Kan.

Jacob LaTurner, Kan.

Tracey Mann, Kan.

Harold Rogers, Ky.

Garret Graves, La.

Clay Higgins, La.

Mike Johnson, La.

Steve Scalise, La.

Andy Harris, Md.

Jack Bergman, Mich.

Lisa McClain, Mich.

Tim Walberg, Mich.

Michelle Fischbach, Minn.

Jim Hagedorn, Minn.

Michael Guest, Miss.

Trent Kelly, Miss.

Steven Palazzo, Miss.

Sam Graves, Mo.

Vicky Hartzler, Mo.

Billy Long, Mo.

Blaine Luetkemeyer, Mo.

Jason Smith, Mo.

Matt Rosendale, Mont.

Dan Bishop, N.C.

Ted Budd, N.C.

Madison Cawthorn, N.C.

Virginia Foxx, N.C.

Richard Hudson, N.C.

Gregory F. Murphy, N.C.

David Rouzer, N.C.

Jeff Van Drew, N.J.

Yvette Herrell, N.M.

Chris Jacobs, N.Y.

Nicole Malliotakis, N.Y.

Elise M. Stefanik, N.Y.

Lee Zeldin, N.Y.

Adrian Smith, Neb.

Steve Chabot, Ohio

Warren Davidson, Ohio

Bob Gibbs, Ohio

Bill Johnson, Ohio

Jim Jordan, Ohio

Stephanie Bice, Okla.

Tom Cole, Okla.

Kevin Hern, Okla.

Frank Lucas, Okla.

Markwayne Mullin, Okla.

Cliff Bentz, Ore.

John Joyce, Pa.

Fred Keller, Pa.

Mike Kelly, Pa.

Daniel Meuser, Pa.

Scott Perry, Pa.

Guy Reschenthaler, Pa.

Lloyd Smucker, Pa.

Glenn Thompson, Pa.

Jeff Duncan, S.C.

Ralph Norman, S.C.

Tom Rice, S.C.

William Timmons, S.C.

Joe Wilson, S.C.

Tim Burchett, Tenn.

Scott DesJarlais, Tenn.

Chuck Fleischmann, Tenn.

Mark E. Green, Tenn.

Diana Harshbarger, Tenn.

David Kustoff, Tenn.

John Rose, Tenn.

Jodey Arrington, Texas

Brian Babin, Texas

Michael C. Burgess, Texas

John R. Carter, Texas

Michael Cloud, Texas

Pat Fallon, Texas

Louie Gohmert, Texas

Lance Gooden, Texas

Ronny Jackson, Texas

Troy Nehls, Texas

August Pfluger, Texas

Pete Sessions, Texas

Beth Van Duyne, Texas

Randy Weber, Texas

Roger Williams, Texas

Ron Wright, Texas

Burgess Owens, Utah

Chris Stewart, Utah

Ben Cline, Va.

Bob Good, Va.

Morgan Griffith, Va.

Robert J. Wittman, Va.

Carol Miller, W.Va.

Alexander X. Mooney, W.Va.

Scott Fitzgerald, Wis.

Tom Tiffany, Wis.

[musingsofabookworm1]

Catching Up: Part 2

During this span, I returned books to the library that I didn't have time to read. I've never done that. Ever. Dark literary days. But better days head hopefully! Here are November and December's reads:

*The Oracle of Maracoor: Another Day #2 by Gregory Maguire: 4 stars The second in the series following Elphaba's (Wicked) granddaughter. This is a series which will require a read of the first book prior to this one. Both are short, and if you enjoy the Wicked Chronicles, I highly recommend it.

*Mecury Pictures Presents by Anthony Marra: 3 stars I waited so long for this book as I absolutely loved Constellation of Vital Phenomenon, but this one just didn't do it for me like that one did. It follows Italian-born Maria who comes to America in the 1940s in hopes of hittting it big in Hollywood. There's more to it than that, obviously, but that's the bare bones. If you've not read ...Phenomenon, you need to.

*The VanderBeekers on the Road by Karina Yan Glaser: 4 stras Book six, but not the last (as expected), of Glaser's middle grade series. It picks up right where its predecessor left off with its lovable characters. Get the middle grader in your life into these books!

*The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama: 5 stars Just read this book. It's amazing. Also recommended: buying and sharing with your BFF -- it heigthens the enjoyability.

*Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan: 5 stars I thought I was "outgrowing" Picoult's work. But this one brought me back to saying I'm a fan. Picoult brings back characters from previoius works writing from the perpective of Olivia whose son is accused of murdering his girlfiend Lily (Boylan writes Lily's chapters). The two authors put out a hell of a product! Two thumbs way up for this one.

*The Killing Code by Ellie Marney: 3 stars WWII YA compared to Kate Quinn. Not quite, reviewer. You can find better WWII YA than this one. It had some good parts, but average overall.

*We Spread by Iain Reid: 3 stars This has Reid's usual werid vibe, but I didn't like it as much as his others. Protagonist Penny finds herself in a nursing home of sorts that her now-decesased partner signed her up for prior to his death.

*Skipping Christmas by John Grisham: 3 stars Sometimes you read a book because it's your BFF's favorite even though you both know you probably won't love it. But it took minimal time to read, and it did have its highlights.

*Poster Girl by Veronica Roth: 3 stars Said girl is Sonya who lives in a society in which the Delegation has set up a moral code that landed her in prison, but after 10 years, an enemy fromt he past offers her a deal in exchange for her freedom.

*Anywhere You Run by Wanda M. Morris: 5 stars A snow day read! And an excellent one at that! After the murder of a white man in 1960s Mississippi, two black sisters disappear from town in hopes of escaping the secrets they left behind.

*Marmee by Sarah Miller: 5 stars Love Little Women? Get your hands on this book. It follows the story through Marmee's journal entries and includes additional insight into this supporting character. Another good one to share with your BFF if you both love the March sisters.

*Truths I Never Told You by Kelly Rimmer: 5 stars This one was $7 for the paperback, and I loved The Things We Cannot Say so forked over the money. This was another snow-day five-star read! It started slow as the plot goes back and forth between a mother in the 1950s and a family close to present-day. About a third of the way through, things picked up, and how all the pieces came together was excellent!

*Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships - by Nina Totenberg: 4 stars My BFF bought this book so we could enjoy reading about RBG. Ruth is sprinkled in for sure. More and moreso as the memoir carries on. I knew nothing of Totenberg other than the fact that she is a journalist. So all new info on her.

*A School for German Brides by Aimie K. Runyan: 3 stars The plot summary tells of how to the protagonists stories meet. But that doesn't actually happen until about three-quarters of the way through this WWII novel. Definite negative on that front. Average overall.

[therepublicofletters]

I’ve been meaning to make a masterpost with a list of books and articles for people interested in the Italian Renaissance - so, behold!  These are taken mostly from my own bookshelf, syllabi of classes I’ve taken, and bibliographies I’ve compiled for papers I’ve written.  I’ve tried to provide a broader overview of the Renaissance with more general topics, and not to give books that are too incredibly specific and not relevant unless you’re working specifically in topic.  I’ve also tried  to find PDFs or links for anything that you can access online.

I hope this is useful for anyone who’s interested in this period, and I will always be happy to answer questions or try to provide sources for more specific topics!

** indicates a primary source

General Reading.

The Renaissance in Europe by Margaret L. King

**The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance: A Sourcebook by Kenneth Bartlett

Florence and Beyond: Culture, Society and Politics in Renaissance Italy : Essays in Honour of John M. Najemy, ed. David S. Peterson and Daniel E. Bornstein | Google Books

The Renaissance: Italy and Abroad, ed. John Jeffries Martin | Google Books

Daily Life and Culture, Public and Private.

**The Book of the Courtier by Baldassare Castiglione | English PDF

Public Life in Renaissance Florence by Richard Trexler

Friendship, Love, and Trust in Renaissance Florence by Dale Kent | JSTOR

Dressing Renaissance Florence: Families, Fortune, and Fine Clothing by Carole Collier Frick | Google Books

Household and Lineage in Renaissance Florence: The Family Life of the Capponi, Ginori and Rucellai by Francis William Kent | JSTOR

“Did Women Have a Renaissance?” by Joan Kelly | PDF

Politics and Diplomacy.

**The Online Tratte (Election Records) of Office Holders, 1282-1532

Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livy by Niccolò Machiavelli || English: PDF | Archive.org || Italian: PDF

The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli || English: PDF | Archive.org | Audiobook || Italian: PDF | Project Gutenberg

Note: the Prince is not really representative of political ideology in the Italian Renaissance.  I would actually recommend the Discourses more highly because of how they explore the reality, rather than the possible or ideal, of Italian politics.  For Machiavelli’s works, I really like the Allan Gilbert translations, published as The Chief Works and Others

The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli, ed. John Najemy

“The Dialogue of Power in Florentine Politics” by John Najemy, in The Renaissance: Italy and Abroad, ed. Martin| Google Books

The Florentine Magnates: Lineage and Faction in a Medieval Commune by Carol Lansing | JSTOR

Economics.

The Economy of Renaissance Florence by Richard Goldthwaite

Medici Money by Tim Parks

**The Online Catasto (Tax Records) of 1427-29

Classic Works.  Some of these are now considered out-of-date, but they have done a lot to inform the current work on the Italian Renaissance.

The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Bruckhardt | PDF | Project Gutenberg

The Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance by Hans Baron | Library Access

Paleography and Manuscript Studies.

Dictionary of Latin and Italian Abbreviations/Dizionario di Abbreviature Latine e Italiane/Lexicon Abbriviaturarum by Adriano Cappelli – an absolute must-have for the would-be paleographer!! | Archive.org 

Latin Paleography: Antiquity and the Middle Ages by Bernhard Bischoff

A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600 by Michelle P. Brown

Introduction to Manuscript Studies by Raymond Clemens and Timothy Graham

Art History.

**The Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari -  a must have the Renaissance art historian, but also just a pleasure to read

**On Painting/De pictura by Leon Battista Alberti | Latin | Italian | English Excerpts

There are a lot of great works on individual artists, topics, or works of art, so it would be too much to list them all here!  I didn’t use a single textbook to start my study of Italian art - it’s very easy to find things in this topic!

The Medici.

The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall by Christopher Hibbert

The Lives of the Early Medici as Told Through Their Correspondence, ed. Janet Ross | Archive.org

Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de’ Medici by Miles J. Unger

The Life of Lorenzo de’ Medici, Called the Magnificent by William Roscoe - Slightly outdated now, but a classic work, and includes some relevant primary sources | Archive.org

April Blood by Lauro Martines

The Montefeltro Conspiracy by Marcello Simonetta

Inventari medicei, 1417-1465 : Giovanni di Bicci, Cosimo e Lorenzo di Giovanni, Piero di Cosimo, ed. Marco Spallanzani

Libro d'inventario dei beni di Lorenzo il Magnifico, ed. Marco Spallanzani and Giovanna Gaeta Bertelà

Lorenzo de' Medici at Home: The Inventory of the Palazzo Medici in 1492, ed. Richard Stapleford

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Savion Glover, Jason Robert Brown, Priscilla Lopez, More Join NYPL I'm Still Here Benefit

BY ANDREW GANS

JUN 16, 2021

The upcoming benefit, celebrating the New York Public Library's Billy Rose Theatre Division, honors George C. Wolfe and the late Harold Prince.

Additional artists have joined the upcoming I'm Still Here benefit, celebrating the 90th anniversary of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts’ Billy Rose Theatre Division and the 50th anniversary of its Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.

Honoring Tony-winning directors George C. Wolfe and the late Harold Prince, I’m Still Here will stream on Broadway on Demand June 23 at 8 PM ET.

Jason Robert Brown, Savion Glover, Priscilla Lopez, Susan Stroman, Marisha Wallace, and Christopher Wheeldon have joined the starry roster of participants. The evening, as previously announced, will also feature archival content of several Broadway productions preserved in the archive, including the newly announced Angela Bassett and Samuel L. Jackson in The Mountaintop; Bette Midler in I'll Eat You Last; Brian Stokes Mitchell in Ragtime; Kelli O'Hara and Paulo Szot in South Pacific; Christian Borle and Tim Curry in Spamalot; and Craig Bierko and Rebecca Luker in The Music Man.

Viewers can expect to see Glover, Jimmy Tate, Choclattjared, and Raymond King in Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk; Meryl Streep, Marcia Gay Harden, and Larry Pine in The Seagull; Lin-Manuel Miranda, Robin de Jesús, Christopher Jackson, Karen Olivo, Andréa Burns, Janet Dacal, Eliseo Román, and Seth Stewart in In the Heights; and Glenn Close in Sunset Boulevard.

Watch Stephanie J. Block Belt Out She Loves Me's 'A Trip to the Library' for NYPL I'm Still Here Benefit

Also taking part: Annaleigh Ashford (Sunday in the Park with George), Alexander Bello (Caroline, or Change), Laura Benanti (She Loves Me), Malik Bilbrew, Alexandra Billings (Wicked), Susan Birkenhead (Jelly’s Last Jam), Shay Bland, Alex Brightman (Beetlejuice), Matthew Broderick (Plaza Suite), Krystal Joy Brown (Hamilton), David Burtka (Gypsy), Sammi Cannold (Endlings), Ayodele Casel (Chasing Magic), Victoria Clark (The Light in the Piazza), Max Clayton (Moulin Rouge!), Calvin L. Cooper (Mrs. Doubtfire), DeMarius Copes (Mean Girls), Trip Cullman (Choir Boy), Taeler Elyse Cyrus (Hello, Dolly!), Quentin Earl Darrington (Once on This Island), Robin de Jesús (In the Heights), André De Shields (Hadestown), Frank DiLella (NY1), Derek Ege, Amina Faye, Harvey Fierstein (La Cage aux Folles), Leslie Donna Flesner (Tootsie), Chelsea P. Freeman, Joel Grey (Cabaret), Ryan J. Haddad (The Politician), Sheldon Harnick (Fiddler on the Roof), James Harkness (Ain’t Too Proud), Marcy Harriell (Company), Neil Patrick Harris (Hedwig and the Angry Inch), Mark Harris (Mike Nichols: A Life), David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly), Cassondra James (Once on This Island), Marcus Paul James (Rent), Taylor Iman Jones (Hamilton), Maya Kazzaz, Tom Kirdahy (The Inheritance), Hilary Knight, Michael John LaChiusa (The Wild Party), Norman Lear (Good Times), Baayork Lee (A Chorus Line), Sondra Lee (Hello, Dolly!), Telly Leung (Aladdin), Ashley Loren (Moulin Rouge!), Allen René Louis, Brittney Mack (Six), Taylor Mac (Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus), Morgan Marcell, Aaron Marcellus, Joan Marcus, Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening), Sarah Meahl, Joanna Merlin (Fiddler on the Roof), Ruthie Ann Miles (Sunday in the Park with George), Bonnie Milligan (Head Over Heels), Rita Moreno (West Side Story), Leilani Patao (Garden Girl), Nova Payton (Dreamgirls), Joel Perez (Kiss My Aztec), Bernadette Peters (Into the Woods), Tonya Pinkins (Jelly’s Last Jam), Jacoby Pruitt, Sam Quinn, Phylicia Rashad (A Raisin in the Sun), Jelani Remy (Ain’t Too Proud), Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer (Beetlejuice), George Salazar (Be More Chill), Marilyn Saunders (Company), Marcus Scott (Fidelio), Rashidra Scott (Company), Rona Siddiqui (Tales of a Halfghan), Ahmad Simmons, Rebecca Taichman (Indecent), Jeanine Tesori (Fun Home), Bobby Conte Thornton (Company), Sergio Trujillo (On Your Feet), Kei Tsuruharatani (Jagged Little Pill), Ben Vereen (Pippin), Jack Viertel, Christopher Vo, Paula Vogel (Indecent), Nik Walker (Ain’t Too Proud), Shannon Fiona Weir, Helen Marla White (Ain’t Misbehavin’), Natasha Yvette Williams (Orange Is the New Black), and Ricardo Zayas (Hamilton).

The program will also feature interviews with Broadway artists plus the re-conception of classic musical theatre songs, including "A Trip to the Library," “Wheels of a Dream,” “Another Hundred People,” “Love Will Find a Way,” and, fittingly, “I’m Still Here.”

READ: The Woman Who Fought to Record and Preserve Broadway Shows

The virtual benefit is produced and conceived by Boardman and Doran and features direction by Steve Broadnax, Sammi Cannold, Nick Corley, Ty Defoe, Lorin Latarro, Mia Walker, and Jason Michael Webb, choreography by Ayodele Casel, Latarro, and Ray Mercer, with new music arranged by Rachel Dean and Annastasia Victory, arrangements and orchestrations by Brian Usifer, and casting by Peter Van Dam at Tara Rubin Casting.

Tickets are donate-what-you-can, with a recommendation of at least $19.31 in honor of the year the division was founded. Visit StillHereat90.com.

[havingsomemorejohnlarks]

actually also M+J+Q if you don’t mind :3

Hey again 😎👉👉 yee sure!! always happy to answer questions about my guy :D thanks for the questions!

Rook Diamond

J - Joy

1. What makes them happy?

His art - an expression of his inner thoughts, desires and feelings. He loves working on them, and seeing the end result.

Reading - losing himself in a fictional world, and drawing from it's lessons and relationships is stimulating

Nature - forests in the autumn, crisp grass in the summer, snowy grounds in the winter, these are things he finds beautiful and relaxing, and fill him with a happy feeling

Coffee shops - drinking one of his favourite drinks while chatting to someone or relaxing with a book, he feels at home

Libraries - in a super calm, relaxing and quiet environment to read, with people who clearly adore books there too *chefs kiss* perfection to him

True justice - always a good day when he gets a chance to show people that the system is broken, but it always ends up breaking him

2. Who makes them happy?

His family - their banter, their love, he loves them :)

His cats - they're fluffy, they're beautiful, they mean the world to me

His friends - their banter, their love, he loves them too ;D

John makes him happy - he likes to get a rise out of him, but then also see him vulnerable. It shows that John is capable of feeling things.

Jacob makes him happy, when Jacob is happy doing something other than killing and hurting people.

Joseph makes him happy, when he lets himself be human for a moment and puts down the scripted speech for a second, to be true to himself.

3. Are there any songs that bring them joy?

yee - many, too much to count. I'll list three

Only You by The Platters - yeah, this song. He used to associate the first happy memory he had of a happy, functional family with that song - his mum and dad clinging to each other, laughing, snuggling up to each other, swaying gently to the music. His little brother tumbling out from their hiding spot, giving them away and joining in. All of them - laughing and dancing.

Jump in the Line by Harry Belafonte - another family memory attached, baking with his mum on a sunday, after she comes back from church

Grace Kelly by Mika - just gives him happy vibes and dances crazily whenever it comes on

4. Are they happy often?

His life has been full of disasters and horrible events. Outside of the Reaping, though, he is fairly happy - a good family, good friends. Then again... although he is happy, he has always felt something missing - which is why he went to Montana, Hope County - to find something. He was never sure what it was. It wasn't the cult fighting he needed and he was not happy during the Reaping. He's happy after he's come to terms with everything that happened during the Reaping.

5. What brings them the most joy in the world?

Laughter. It can cure everything.

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M - Maternal

1. Would they want a daughter or a son?

Rook definitely doesn't mind what the gender of his child is (but he ends up with two little boys in the end :D)

2. How many children do they want?

He likes the idea of having a child, he just wants to be ready and in the best situation before it happens. He would be happy enough with just one kid, but he doesn't have a specific number he wanted.

3. Would they be a good parent?

Definitely. He has seen the mistakes of his biological mother - he has seen the mistakes of others parents. He has two amazing parents to guide him. And he loves his kids to bits - he's as good a dad as he can be, even if he makes mistakes sometimes.

4. What would they name a son? What would they name a daughter?

Rook is a fucking oddball, and, judging from him and his brothers names, so is his dad. Because he names his two boys Rain and Tiger. Ridiculous. But fucking cute at the same time. He would name his daughter, if he ever had one, River, Queenie or Lilly (Queenie, in line with his dads kids and the possible daughter his parents could have had, and Lilly, after his mum, Lillian).

He also really likes the name Sam.

5. Would they adopt?

Yes. If he found that he desperately wants a child in the future, but does not want to go through any pregnancy, he would adopt, and he'd be happy to.

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Q - Questions

1. Do they ask for help?

Only from his family - otherwise, whatever it is, unless he desperately needs it, he toughs it out on his own.

2. Do they ask questions in class?

No - he didn't. If he needs help, he'd have waited til the end and asked then. He didn't need to draw any attention to himself in school. In college, it was different. He'd ask questions he needed to know the answer to in class, and then curious side questions at the end or google it

3. Do they answer questions that make them a little uncomfortable?

No. Only when he thinks it's probably important the other person knows the answer, but he's not gonna jump to answer something that he doesn't want to

4. Do they ask weird questions?

Sometimes. Depends. His mind wonders to weird places sometimes.

5. Are they curious?

Oh yeah - he struggles to hide it sometimes, but he doesn't like to show his true colours much lmao

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Once again, thank you!! and have a nice day x

[lboogie1906]

Elizabeth Catlett (April 15, 1915 – April 2, 2012) was a political expressionist sculptor and printmaker. She was born to John and Mary Catlett who were public school teachers in DC. She was the youngest of three children. After graduating from Dunbar High School, she studied Design and Drawing at Howard University. She graduated cum laude, after changing her major to Painting. She became the first student to receive an MFA in Sculpting from the University of Iowa.

She studied ceramics at the Art Institute of Chicago, followed by the study of lithography at the Arts Students League, she was married to fellow artist Charles White.

She began focusing her sculptures on African American women. Her thesis project, a limestone sculpture titled Mother and Child, won a sculpture prize at the 1940 American Negro Exposition. During WWII she taught art at Prairie View A&M College, Dillard University, and Hampton Institute as well as the Carver School.

She spent the majority of her adult life in Mexico, after winning a Rosenwald Fund Fellowship in 1946 to study wood and ceramic sculpting at the Escuela de Pintura y Escultura in Esmerelda. She married artist Francisco Victor Mora (1947) and became a Mexican citizen and they had three sons including Juan Mora Catlett, a film director. She became involved with the People’s Graphic Arts Workshop.

She taught at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where she became the first female professor of sculpture. She retired to Cuernavaca, Morelos in 1975. Her artwork did not attain the same degree of fame in the US, her sculptures were selected for an exhibition at New York’s June Kelly Gallery. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions in Cleveland, San Francisco, Chicago, and Charlotte, and she has works featured in the collections of the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, and New York’s Metropolitan Museum and Museum of Modern Art. Her African American-inspired sculptures and prints have been recognized by the Women’s Caucus for Art and the International Sculpture Center, from whom she received the 2003 Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #deltasigmatheta

[bookcoverbasics]

Creating a Cover, by Peter Thorpe

Peter Thorpe is a master illustrator and designer with a long and illustrious career.  He enjoyed early success with work for St. Martin's Press, Viking Penguin, and Harper & Row. For Viking, he did the cover of Frederick Forsyth's The Fourth Protocol and Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon Days, both number one best sellers. Thorpe came to specialize in mysteries, Americana and espionage, doing covers for series published by Warner Books (Larry Bond, Ross Thomas, Elizabeth Peters, Harold Adams), Harper & Row (Desmond Bagley, Hammond Innes, Len Deighton, Fred Harris), St. Martin's Press (Gregory Bean, Laura Crum), Doubleday (Daniel Easterman) and Random House (Thomas Perry). He has created covers for authors such as Nelson Algren, Desmond Bagley, John Calvin Batchelor, William Bernhardt, Terry Bisson, David Cole, Peter DeVries, Daniel Easterman, Thomas Fleming, John Fuller, Michael Gannon, Wendy Hornsby, M. T. Kelly, Brad Linaweaver, Jack London, Walter M. Miller, Jr., Joseph Monninger, Gerard K. O'Neill, Sharon Kaye Penman, Scott Rice, Dana Stabenow, John Trenhaile, Cay Van Ash and Judith Van Gieson. Here, Thorpe describes for us one of his first jobs as a cover designer...

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I moved to New York City in 1980, right out of art school, with the idea of working as a freelancer in book publishing. I had discovered in college that I was very comfortable working with type, something that eluded most of my fellow illustration students. So I focused on showing my portfolio to publishers who, at the time, would job out a book cover design to a designer, and the illustration to an illustrator. Being able to do both was a plus and I discovered the publishers were eager for someone like me.

I found early work with St. Martin’s Press and Viking Penguin, and in 1984 started doing covers for Harper & Row. The Creative Director there, Joseph Montebello, gave me free rein on design and I experimented quite a bit with type design. I was in his office in early 1986, handing in a job, when he told me he had a mystery title that involved modern day Navajos, and that he was having a hard time finding someone to give it a proper treatment. The book was Skinwalkers by Tony Hillerman. I told him I was 1/8 Cherokee, and he said, “Good enough, you do it.” Never mind that although my heritage was true, I had never been to an Indian reservation or even met a Native American, and my folks never talked about that side of the family. But that didn’t matter to Joseph, he figured if it was in my blood, then I was right for the job.

In those days most of my visual research was done at the New York Public Library’s Picture Collection. It was housed in a building on Fifth Ave. across from the main library branch. I told the people at the desk what categories I wanted to research and they guided me to files stuffed with images of the subject. Images were taken out of books and magazines or photos from news sources or the like, all mounted on stiff paper. For Skinwalkers, I told them I wanted to look at Navajo images and they gave me several large folders. There were all sorts of photos and illustrations of Navajo hogans and rug weaving and of the landscapes of the reservation. But one thing kept showing up...images of Navajo sand paintings. These beautifully designed images fascinated me. In Hillerman’s manuscript Navajo shaman and their healing rituals, which included sand paintings, played a role. They were not the main focus of the book, but the sand paintings seemed to me to nicely represent their culture, and I decided to try to use that imagery in the cover design. 

I met with a bit of resistance from the editors at first, but Joseph Montebello stood up for me and argued that I was going in the right direction. In the end I used a sand painting border for the Skinwalkers cover. It surrounds a scene from the reservation with a skull in the foreground. I decided to paint the finish on handmade paper to keep with the Native American feel. I used an old wood type font for the title and author name. The book surprised us all by hitting the bestseller list, so Harper & Row came back to me for the next book in the series and by the time I had done a few of them I had established a consistent look that used sand painting elements, old wood type fonts and handmade paper backgrounds as the design standard. For twenty years, until the author’s death, I continued to do the covers for his Harper & Row/Harper Collins first editions, paperbacks (including back titles), omnibuses, and related materials such as slipcase illustrations, point of purchase posters, risers and maps. For each first edition they had me call the author to discuss the cover. Tony was great fun on the phone, telling me stories about his life and relationship with the publisher, but as for the covers he always said, “Do whatever you want to Peter, the covers have worked well so far!”

[asfaltics]

subfluence merged in an ornamental lake

  but these very subfluences       1 subfluence over boundaries or lands       2 subfluence which natural causes have on the limity of the reflection       3 subfluence, recording occurrences       4 subfluence over ennui. I had not the       5   subfluence. What do we do? What does the       6 subfluence, discoverable or unexplained       7 subfluence, at nights       8 subfluence in production or waste, used freely       9 subfluence literally incalculable, the principle on which       10   the heart-beat is subfluence.       11 subfluence diffused       12 subfluence full of romance       13 lies, and other caustic or irritant subfluence       14 subfluence, the signaling, the adjustment of huge mechanisms       15   subfluence merged in an ornamental lake       16 subfluences subdued       17 his special subfluence, for he was an omnivorous reader, and had a picturesque and even romantic outlook on       18 subfluence, with the colors still       19 subfluence the entire cotton trade       20   subfluence spread far and wide.       21 subfluence, the possibility of human flight       22 subfluence for lack of language : error       23 Subfluenz-Prozesse       24 Subfluenz, einer varistischen       25  

sources (most, and mostly OCR misreads)

1 OCR misread for “substances,” at “Of points wherein we and Papists differ, viz., Transubstantiation, &c.,” in John Rawlet (1642-86 *), A dialogue betwixt two Protestants, in answer to a Popish Catechism (Third edition, corrected; London, 1686) : 82 2 ex “A sketch of the life and public services of Gen. William Henry Harrison.” in (Isaac Rand Jackson?), General William Henry Harrison, Candidate of the People for President of the United States (Baltimore, 1840) : 6 Harrison (1773-1841) would have a short (31-day) tenure as president, but had done enough damage in previous roles, particularly with regard to indigenous people. see wikipedia 3 ex “Scripture and Geology” (by N), in The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction (Saturday, August 14, 1841) : 99-103 (100) see wikipedia for its publisher John Limbird (1796?-1883) 4 ex “Druids and Bards,” being an extensive notice/review of three books — J. B. Pratt The Druids Illustrated (1861), John Williams, ed., Brut y Tywysogion (1860), and Godfrey Higgins, The Celtic Druids (1829), in The Edinburgh Review, 118 (American Edition; July 1863) : 20-36 (35) 5 ex “A Rolling Stone.” By George Sand, translated from the French by Carroll Owen, in Library of Famous Fiction 2 (1879) : 1-113 (109) 6 OCR cross-colum misread, involving M. H. Cobb, “Common Sense Applied to Living” (pp 5-7) and “A Parlor Drama, in Two Acts” by Augusta De Bubna (pp 7-13), in The Brooklyn New Monthly Magazine, Henry Morford (1823-81), editor and manager; 1:1 (January 1880) : 7 7 ex A. Ernest Sansom, “The Dyspepsia of Infancy,” in The New York Medical Times 19:2 (May 1891) : 33-37 (34) 8 involving obituaries (memorials) for James Holmes and David Wright, in the section “Connexional Biography” in The Primitive Methodist Magazine 73 - London, 1892) : 51 on “Connexionalism” (and its relation to “network”), this, from wikpedia — “The United Methodist Church defines connection as the principle that ‘all leaders and congregations are connected in a network of loyalties and commitments that support, yet supersede, local concerns.’ Accordingly, the primary decision-making bodies in Methodism are conferences, which serve to gather together representatives of various levels of church hierarchy.” 9 ex “Brief Gleanings : The treatment of Leanness and Obesity” in The Medical Brief (A Monthly Journal of Scientific Medicine; J.J. Lawrence, Proprietor) 20:10 (St. Louis, Mo; October 1892) : 1240 10 ex W. Garden Blaikie, “St. Paul’s Pastoral Counsels to the Corinthians.” in Exegetical and Expository Section, The Homiletic Review 29:5 (May 1895) : 451-453 11 Aloysius O. J. Kelly, “Essential Paroxysmal Tachycardia — Report of Four Cases.” (Read October 14, 1896), in Proceedings of the Philadelphia County Medical Society 17 (Session of 1896) : 166-180 (171) Kelly (1870-1911) obituary at Boston Medical and Surgical Journal (now NEJM) March 9, 2011) : 360 12 out of chronology (and unlinkable snippet, only), mea culpa, ex The Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle 21 (1813) : 328 13 snippet only, evidently from Chapter 9 “Signs and Tokens” of Charles Dickens, Bleak House (1852-53), here ex Works Volume 3 (1899) : 374 14 misread involving “Milk a Universal Antidote” and “School-Meals for Underfed Children” in The Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette (A monthly journal of physiological medicine) 16:1 (January 1900) : 20 15 ex Edward Nelson, “Electricity in Service on British Battleships,” in Electricity 29:23 (December 6, 1905) : 311-313 16 preview snippet only, at (Commonwealth of Australia) Parliamentary Debates 57 (1910) : 3207 17 ex index of volume, Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research (Section “B” of the American Institute for Scientific Research) vol. 5 (New York, 1911) : 771 18 ex entry (by “C. L. G.”) for Meredith White Townsend (1831-1911), in Dictionary of National Biography, edited by Sidney Lee. Second Supplement vol. 3, Neil – Young (New York, 1912) : 532 19 preview snippet only, ex The American Year Book 5 (1915) : 300 20 § 816. Corners... in William Herbert Page, The Law of Contracts Second edition; revised, rewritten and enlarged with forms. Volume 2. (Cincinnati, 1920) : 1441 21 ex “Balboa Day, September 17th, 1919 in Honolulu,” in Bulletin of the Pan-Pacific Union (January 1920) : 6 22 misread, involving report on “The Langley Flying Machine” (and some controversy between S. P. Langley and the Wright brothers), and “The Impurity of Pure Substances” (review of A. Smits, Theorie der Allotropie (1921)) in Nature 108 (November 3, 1921) : 298 23 misread, involving Booth et al v. Floyd (No 2358) and Blackstone v. Nelson, Warden (No 2457) in The Southeastern Reporter 108 (August 27 - December 3, 1921) : 114 24 H. J. Behr, “Subfluenz-Prozesse im Grundgebirgs-Stockwerk Mitteleuropas.” Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft 129 (1978) : 283-318 25 K. Weber, “Das Bewegungsbild im Rhenoherzynikum Abbild einer varistischen Subfluenz.” Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft 129 (1978) : 249-281 referring to the Variscan Orogeny (wikipedia)  

method

1

There is no word “subfluence,” or only barely one. This started with the self-written biographical note of poet Jack Hirschman, in A Caterpillar Anthology (Clayton Eshleman, ed., 1971) —

“They are lyrical poems, in verse or free-form, as distinguished from the poems in this anthology, which are breath forms reflecting a more total slavery to the conditions of the spirit’s war-torn years. The major influences on my works are influence itself, in as many levels of order, disorder, disaster, paranoia, joy and ecstasy as the deathless magic of being alive permits a vessel now of fire, now of air, to spark, glow, flame and ember according to the law of nature.”

“Influence” — that word — led to thinking about variations, e.g., effluence, outfluence, pre-fluence... “subfluence” — an underground stream a less-than fluency (stammering, stuttering) a brittleness?

Little — or nothing — surfaced in a google books search, save for errors — typically a “sub” at the end of one line, a “fluence” at the start of the next (in a different column). Quite enough for present purposes. And so these subfluence derivations are built around a word that isn’t quite a word. Some license has been taken with the text in this post: dispensing ellipsis or [brackets] where text is erased (or rather, dropped); in some instances, some words that preceded the subfluence, are moved to follow it.

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And yet, the word does appear, in some (and only a few) geological texts, typically having to do with the geotectonic unterströmungshypothese (undercurrent) concepts — and field work done in the Northern Calcareous Alps — of and by Otto Ampferer (1875-1947). More on Ampferer to come. For now, these references —

Wolf-Christian Dullo and Fritz A. Pfaffle, “The theory of undercurrent from the Austrian alpine geologist Otto Ampferer (1875-1947) : first conceptual ideas on the way to plate tectonics,” Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 56 (2019) : 1095-11 here

Karl Krainer und Christoph Hauser, “Otto Ampferer (1875–1947): Pioneer in Geology, Mountain Climber, Collector and Draftsman,” in: Geo.Alp Sonderband 1 (2007) : 91–100 here (pdf)

wikipedia (in German)

Dr. Otto Ampferer. “Über das Bewegungsbild von Faltengebirgen” (On the movement pattern of folded mountains), in Jahr. Geol. Reichsanstalt (Yearbook of the Austrian Geological Survey), 56:3-4 (1906) : 539-622 “Mit 42 Zinkotypien im Text” here

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“Subfluence” also surfaces as a company name, social media handle, &c., &c.

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all tagged subfluence