⊱ winter wonderland ⊰

if i look back, i am lost

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a milotte scarf for chillier spring days

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Abadi

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paper punch buttons

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via

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"Unicorn", 2004

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During another party, late in the evening, Shirley startled Claude Fredericks by showing him a human skull, which she said had belonged to a doctor. The top of the cranium had been sawed off and reattached with hinges; Shirley opened and closed it as if it were a cigarette box. She tried to hang her commedia dell'arte mask on the skull, but the mask wouldn't stay put. "She began to speak to it as if it were a child, as if the skull were the ghost," Fredericks later remembered." "What, you don't want it on, it hurts your eyes, you're tired of it on?' she asked the creature.. There was something unpleasant and ghostly there in the dark, something obscene as she gently, tenderly, almost reverently put the skull back in its place on the shelf.

- Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, Ruth Franklin

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from Paul Carroll's 1963 review of We Have Always Lived in the Castle, quoted by Hattenhauer in Shirley Jackson’s American Gothic

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Papercut Valentine

Andrew Wittkamp

American, first half 19th c

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A STUDY OF DOLLS, 1897, Stanley G. Hall & A. Caswell Lewis

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Little antique Nippon bisque doll I found today