Lemon Tea and Earwig Biscuits

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." - Dorothy Parker

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Eugene Berman (Russian-American, 1899-1972) - Sunset (Medusa) (1945)

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Ellen was often spotted at the beach in the solitude of the dunes. Her eyes scanned the waves and the horizon as she pined for her beloved.

Nosferatu, 1922

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Elsa Lanchester

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Poupées - Coiffure Antoine, Jacques Henri Lartigue, 1932

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sambuca nigra

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Heart Whispers Intermezzo...by Sydney P. Harris; Sydney P. Harris Co., New York, NY, 1905

Duke University Digital Collection: Historic American Sheet Music

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Clara Bow (1920s)

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Edwardian postcard

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“As we are a doomed race, chained to a sinking ship, as the whole thing is a bad joke, let us, at any rate, do our part; mitigate the suffering of our fellow-prisoners; decorate the dungeon with flowers and air-cushions; be as decent as we possibly can.”

~ Virginia Woolf, 'Mrs. Dalloway"

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Édouard Manet, ‘Annabel Lee’ (c1881)

It was many and many a year ago,

In a kingdom by the sea,

That a maiden there lived whom you may know

By the name of Annabel Lee …

~ Edgar Allen Poe

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Paul Martin, ‘You Dirty Boy!’ (platinum print, 1892)

#seaside

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postcard, c.1910

#seaside #souvenir

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Alexander Galt (1913-2000), ‘The Clyde from Victoria Road, Gourock’

#seaside

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