Log of the S.S. the Mrs. Unguentine

[touba]

The language of the birds is postulated as a mystical, perfect divine language, angelic language, mythical or magical language used by birds to communicate with the initiated.

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Of potential interest: The Language of Birds by Rene Guenon

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Salvador Dalì and Gala

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“I think of the novelist as a houseguest. The poet is more someone who just appears.”

Billy Collins (via theparisreview)

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The Birds Paradise, 1930s

Charles E Jones was known as the “Birdman of Vancouver.” This and other photos of Jones and his birds appeared in the 24 February 1941 issue of Life Magazine. Jones became Vancouver’s mayor in 1947.

Source: BC postcard collection at SFU Special Collections

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Jardin du Luxembourg Paris 1963, André KERTESZ

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n99_w1150 by BioDivLibrary http://flic.kr/p/dTfSgu

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extinct

[invisiblestories]

To be a bird is to be more intensely alive than any other living creature, man included. Birds have hotter blood, brighter colors, stronger emotions… they live in a world that is always present, mostly full of joy.

Norman J. Berrill, quoted in Caspar Henderson’s wondrous Book of Barely Imagined Beings. (via invisiblestories)

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one day soon wings will break out of your eyes and then how will you see?

Alison Croggon, from “X” (via weissewiese)

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Captain Valentine Barnard’s depiction of a right (or perhaps a bowhead) whale (top) and of a sperm whale (bottom), ca. 1810.

via Cabinet Magazine

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All about whales (1954 ed., cover illustration by Thomas Voter) (via jellobiafrasays(

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Moby Dick or the Whale, written by Herman Melville, designed and illustrated by Rockwell Kent, 1930 ed. (via ryersonlib)

[theparisreview]

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"When a ship went by or backed out from the docks opposite and swung around to steam toward the open sea, there was a dead silence in the ward and a strange foreboding as though all hope were sailing with the tide.”

-Malcolm Lowry, from “Lunar Caustic.” Illustration by J. F. Ulysse (via theparisreview)

[theparisreview]

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Before Moby-Dick there was Mocha Dick, a magazine story that inspired Melville to write his novel; now, in a new illustrated book, Mocha Dick: The Legend and the Fury, the original whale gets his due. * (theparisreview)

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