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Mother Sceliphron, shaper of life https://jonathanmorse.blog/2026/07/04/mother-sceliphron-shaper-of-life/

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The sense of the hat Pierce-Arrow Society, https://pierce-arrow.org. Advertising Gallery, 1904. https://jonathanmorse.blog/2026/06/24/the-sense-of-the-hat/

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#advertising #automobile #social class #social history #transportation #twentieth-century art

Theory of the mortal coil: metaphor requires a level of pedantic literality https://jonathanmorse.blog/2026/06/20/theory-of-the-mortal-coil/

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#cardiology #fortune #fortune cookie #Hamlet #heart #medicine #metaphor #Shakespeare #stethoscope

The red blanket https://jonathanmorse.blog/2026/06/12/the-red-blanket/

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#cat #photography #portrait #reflected light #sun

Metamorphoses: the delicatessen of Dr. Moreau Jon https://jonathanmorse.blog/2026/06/08/metamorphoses-the-delicatessen-of-dr-moreau-2/

Metamorphoses: the delicatessen of Dr. Moreau Between about 1450 and 1500. Herzog Anton-Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig. https://jonathanmorse.blog/2026/06/08/metamorphoses-the-delicatessen-of-dr-moreau/

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#cat #engraving #fable #H. G. Wells #Ovid #science fiction #The Island of Dr. Moreau #theme of metamorphic change

Humors and time According to the Library of Congress, the oldest photograph of a cat in the collection is probably a daguerreotype cataloged as "Unidentified man with cat, three-quarter length portrait, full face, seated" and given the call number…... https://jonathanmorse.blog/2026/06/04/humors-and-time/

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#cat #comedy #Jonson #perception #photography #theory of humors

Full measure

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#black #cat #eye #volume

Volumeter

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#black #cat #eye #volume

Thoroughfare

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#dance #illustration #music #ragtime #red

In your mind's eye, ear, nose, and fingertips,

conceive of Mariah Carey enacting her song “Touch My Body.”

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#blossom #plumeria #scent #song "Touch My Body&quot #synesthesia

Present: noun; verb; adjective

The kukui or candlenut, Hawaii’s state tree.

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#Hawaii #kukui #nut #tree

Their wind dance

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#ballet #champak #dance #Magnolia champaca #tree #wind

Dark cameo

https://jonathanmorse.blog/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/CANT-GET-LOVIN-BLUES-LUCILLE-HEGAMIN-AND-HER-BANG-UP-SIX-FROM-GEORGIA.mp3 Discography: https://archive.org/details/78_cant-get-lovin-blues_lucille-hegamin-and-her-bang-up-six-from-georgia-turk-robins_gbia0407787b The name on the label reads Cameo.

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#cat #music #photography #portrait

Periscope

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#gold dust day gecko #lizard #photography #portrait

That the Mind may practise her owne power upon the nature of things

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#cat #Francis Bacon #philosophy #photography #portrait #science #scientific method #The Advancement of Learning

"Of Master and of Slave": words speakable once again

They’re not only potentially speakable once again, either. In May 2026, the immediate aftermath of the United States Supreme Court’s eradication of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, they are being actively spoken in one Southern legislature after another. Most of the legislators speaking happen also to belong to the political party that was once the party of Abraham Lincoln. History rhymes,…

#film #history #literature #music #poetry

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