Concordia Discors

History, some histrionics, and occasional harlotry.

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1970s Dining Area

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Source: The Giki Tiki Archives

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Dreaming, ca. 1928

Artist: Maxfield Parrish

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Chemistry of Combustion and Illumination, from Edward Livingston Youmans’ Chemical Atlas (1856). ⠀⁠ ⠀⁠ One of 900+ prints in our online shop. Explore through our “Themes Sets” — this print being part of “Diagram and Schemas” which you can see here: https://publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-art-prints/themed-set/diagrams-and-schemas/

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Robert Weigund

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Inside Robert Redford's house in Sundance, Utah - House & Garden (November 1974)

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“Crescent Lady” by Warren B. Davis (1865-1928)

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BORSOS, József The Dissatisfied Painter (Crisis in the Life of a Painter) 1852 Oil on wood, 98 x 82 cm Magyar Nemzeti Galéria, Budapest

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Home Architecture and Design, 1960s

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Giki Tiki Archives

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Home Library With A View, 1998

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Giki Tiki Archives

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can anyone find me that mesopotamian clay tablet telling you to marry a party girl because she'll bring you joy

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It's from the "Maxims of Ptahhotep", purportedly written by a 96-year-old vizier to pass on his wisdom to his son:

If you marry a good-time girl

A joyful woman known to her town,

If she is wayward,

and revels in the moment,

do not reject her, but instead let her enjoy;

joyfulness is what marks calm water.

[etirabys]

yay ty. Between the above and the links in the mentions we have 3 translations total

[fatsexybitch]

Happy Wife Happy Life is 4.5k years old

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Charles Doudelet (1861-1938), “Pan”, #3, 1895 Source

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i'm all the people i've ever loved

loseness lines over time by olivia de recat, @i-wrotethisforme, Kaveh Akbar, Olivie Blake

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Excellent. Right from the start, Crafting Medicine grips the reader with its clarity of technical focus. It is highly specific in the best possible way, drawing on a deep engagement with a single writer to produce a novel and imaginative book.

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1970s Bathroom.

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From The Archives

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Bathroom Design & Decor, 1951

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From The Archives

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Typography Tuesday

Today we present some fancy Caslon capitals, borders, and ornaments from The Manual of Linotype Typography, printed by the Plimpton Press for the Mergenthaler Linotype Company in Brooklyn, New York, in 1923. William Caslon (1692-1766) famously introduced the first superior British Roman font in his 1734 specimen sheet. Various iterations of the Caslon typefounding house persisted until the 1930s when it was acquired by Stephenson Blake, but the Caslon Roman typeface remains the classic British font.

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“Lord Byron gets up at two. I get up, quite contrary to my usual custom … at 12. After breakfast we sit talking till six. From six to eight we gallop through the pine forest which divide Ravenna from the sea; we then come home and dine, and sit up gossiping till six in the morning. I don’t suppose this will kill me in a week or fortnight, but I shall not try it longer. Lord B.’s establishment consists, besides servants, of ten horses, eight enormous dogs, three monkeys, five cats, an eagle, a crow, and a falcon; and all these, except the horses, walk about the house, which every now and then resounds with their unarbitrated quarrels, as if they were the masters of it… . [P.S.] I find that my enumeration of the animals in this Circean Palace was defective … . I have just met on the grand staircase five peacocks, two guinea hens, and an Egyptian crane. I wonder who all these animals were before they were changed into these shapes.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley on the lifestyle of Lord Byron (via timemarauder)

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#i am glad history has produced at least two people whose shit was even less together than mine