boxcar dreamers

“I feel nothing for the game where beauty goes unrecognised”

[ginandoldlace]

Coronation Celebrations — Chipping Norton, England, 1911

A vibrant street scene from Chipping Norton, captured during the nationwide celebrations of the Coronation of George V and Mary.

The façade of G.O.E. Herbert’s Tea & Dining Rooms is richly adorned with Union Jack flags and royal banners, proudly displaying the message “God Save the King.”

Such decorations were a common sight across Britain as towns and communities came together to mark the coronation.

Outside the shop, locals gather—shopkeepers, women in period dress, and children with bicycles—offering a vivid glimpse into everyday life during this historic moment.

The scene beautifully captures both the festive national pride and the quiet charm of early 20th-century England.

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"They had spent some time wandering desultorily thus, Tess eating in a half-pleased, half-reluctant state whatever d'Urberville offered her. When she could consume no more of the strawberries he filled her little basket with them; and then the two passed round to the rose trees, whence he gathered blossoms and gave her to put in her bosom. She obeyed like one in a dream, and when she could affix no more he himself tucked a bud or two into her hat, and heaped her basket with others in the prodigality of his bounty." - Thomas Hardy, Tess Of The d'Urbervilles

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jeff buckley. "it's never over" (2025)

[lascitasdelashoras]

Jill Freedman - Tivoli Fashion Shop, New York. 1973

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[ambxtxo]

donna tartt’s reading list

In an interview, Tartt lists her favorite authors and the names of a few works. I have listed the most popular works from each author and the specific ones she recommended as well.

Homer

The Iliad

The Odyssey

Greek Poets and Tragedians

Argonautica

Antigone

Prometheus Bound

The Oresteia

Medea

Oedipus Rex

The Bacchae

The Frogs

Dante

Inferno

Purgatorio

Paradiso

Shakespeare

“I went back and read Macbeth and Hamlet during the pandemic”

Macbeth

Hamlet

Dickens

“Dickens was a part of my familial landscape, the air I breathed.”

A Tale of Two Cities

Great Expectations

Nabokov

Pale Fire

Lolita

Proust

In Search of Lost Time

Swann’s Way

Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment

The Brothers Karamazov

Yeats

The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

Irish Fairy and Folk Tales

Borges

Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings

Edith Wharton

The House of Mirth

Ethan Frome

Evelyn Waugh

Brideshead Revisited

Helena

Salinger

Catcher in the Rye

Virginia Woolf

Mrs. Dalloway

Orlando

Edward St. Aubyn

The Patrick Melrose Novels

Haruki Murakami

Kafka on the Shore

Norwegian Wood

Olga Tokarczuk

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Don DeLillo

White Noise

Underworld

W.G. Sebald

Austerlitz

The Rings of Saturn

Joan Didion

The Year of Magical Thinking

The White Album

Other Specific Books

Memoirs d’Outre-Tome by Chateaubriand

Jigsaw by Sybille Bedford

All for Nothing by Walter Kempowski

A Balcony in the Forest by Julien Gracq

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O AGENTE SECRETO - THE SECRET AGENT (2025)

dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho

[citizenscreen]

Happy birthday, Tom Jones, pictured celebrating his 34th birthday in 1974 with a star-studded, 2 a.m. backstage party at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Left to right, Joan Rivers, Joey Heatherton, Sonny Bono, Jones, Dionne Warwicke, Debbie Reynolds, and Liberace.

[boxcarwild]

The street photography of Fred Herzog

[itisbw]

Unknown Artist Death of Katherine Howard, Wife of Henry VIII

[oldpaintings]

Interior with plaster bust of Empress Frederick, 1909 by Kristian Zahrtmann (Danish, 1843–1917)

[richwall101]

The very sad thing about this quote is that its true for too many people...and organizations, corporations, governments, leaders, countries and so on....including several social media sites

[ginandoldlace]

This is Corfe Castle, home to various notable figures throughout its history. It was originally built by William the Conqueror, and later, King Henry I and King John both resided there. Queen Elizabeth I also stayed at the castle during her reign. In the 17th century, Sir John Bankes and his family lived at Corfe Castle, with his wife, Lady Mary Bankes, famously defending it during the English Civil War. These residents highlight the castle’s significance as both a royal and noble residence throughout the centuries.

Corfe Castle, located in the county of Dorset in southern England

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"In those early days she had been much loved by others of her own sex and age, and had used to be seen about the village as one of three--all nearly of the same year--walking home from school side by side; Tess the middle one--in a pink print pinafore, of a finely reticulated pattern, worn over a stuff frock that had lost its original colour for a nondescript tertiary--marching on upon long stalky legs, in tight stockings which had little ladder-like holes at the knees, torn by kneeling in the roads and banks in search of vegetable and mineral treasures; her then earth-coloured hair handing like pot-hooks; the arms of the two outside girls resting round the waist of Tess; her arms on the shoulders of the two supporters" - Thomas Hardy, Tess Of The d'Urbervilles

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[oldshowbiz]

CBC Television's Telescope

[oldmanpeace]

New York City, 1961.