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The Road to the Economic Abyss: Visual Display of Quantitative Data, 1909

(via Ptak Science Books: The Road to the Economic Abyss: Visual Display of Quantitative Data, 1909)

Superpower - Codex xcix

For Kate, Kurt Schwitters, 1947 (via Querido Kurt | (maquinariadelanube) )

Stephen Kroninger - A Box Of Magazines 16

Image scanned from Robert Chambers' Book of Days, 1st edition. "Sunk were his eyes, his voice was harsh and loud, Sure signs he neither choleric was nor proud : His long chin proved his wit, his saint-like grace A church vermilion and a Moses' face." (via CAROLINE BREN VISUAL JOURNAL: Titus Oates)

In college I imagined riding a bicycle up to my rambling seaside (rental) home, where I would drink toddies and smoke cigarettes in something called a turret. Later, when my obsession with Virginia Woolf subsided slightly, I imagined myself living in a pre-war apartment above an organic produce market. I never achieved this dream, but I’m sure if I had, the proprietor of the market would be jaded and arthritic and save me all of the best oranges.

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