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1950s Ronson lighter

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Keanu Revees

Matthew Rolston | Interview, 1990

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Marcel Duchamp, 1963

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Leonora Carrington in Ode to Necrophilia by Kati Horna, 1962

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“The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness, and low self-esteem mesh to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams from generation to generation. We all bear the cost of keeping it running. Illiteracy is its linchpin…. Frederick Douglass taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom. But reading is still the path.”

Happy birthday, Carl Sagan

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Unknown, Tantric Painting, India

From Siglio Press’s Tantra Song, one of the only books to survey the elusive tradition of abstract Tantric painting from Rajasthan, India.

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Otto’s Hand, Photo by Elfriede Stegemeyer, 1933

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Scènes de la vie Mexicaine. 1856. Endpaper.

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Distortion #82, Paris, Photo by André Kertész, 1933

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Austin Osman Spare’s illustration for Form, A Quarterly of the Arts, Heidelberg University Library, 1916

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“The Tollund Man is the naturally mummified corpse of a man who lived during the 4th century BCE, during the period characterised in Scandinavia as the Pre-Roman Iron Age. He was found in 1950 buried in a peat bog on the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark, which preserved his body. Such a find is known as a bog body. The man’s physical features were so well-preserved that he was mistaken at the time of discovery for a recent murder victim”.

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