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So look at the fleeting stars with fleeting eyes, and feel how the earth beneath you gives. It is all a temporary manifestation of particles, and it is all unraveling back to particulate silence. The bustle of the human day will come and will go. And then there will be night.

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“Evening by the Lake,” Max Nonnenbruch, 1901

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Ship Sailing at Sunset, by Anton Otto Fischer, 1938

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It is September and something is different. It is September and the days have gone sinister, from first eyes open to last slow breathing. It is September.

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Fyodor Dostoevsky, Complete Letters

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Sophie Bille Brahe

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Actually the marker of a responsible adult, to me, is integrity. No one has integrity anymore. If you say you’re going to do something then do it. I stopped associating with just ideas people awhile ago. Ideas don’t get you very far, the best things rarely start with an idea, they start with a sensation. The feeling of your heart exploding. Like you’re shrouded in darkness in a forest and all that guides you to the thing is the ear attuned to the vibrancy around you. The idea was left behind ages ago, it never served you the way the sensation serves you.

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it's hailing today and the gloom outside is casting peculiar shadows around my room...

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A Corvidae Feathursday

Here are some more wood-engraved birds -- both black and white and hand-colored --by British author and wood engraver Eric Fitch Daglish (1892-1966) from his 1948 publication Birds of the British Isles, published in London by J. M. Dent & Sons in 1948 in a limited edition of 1500 copies. Today we display all the corvids from this volume, from top to bottom:

Common Raven (Corvus corax)

Western Jackdaw (Coloeus monedula)

Red-billed Chough (pronounced "chuf"; Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax)

Spotted Nutcracker (Nucifraga caryocatactes)

Eurasian Magpie (Pica pica)

Rook (Corvus frugilegus)

Carrion Crow (Corvus corone)

Eurasian Jay (Garrulus glandarius)

Read more about this book plus view a hand-colored engraving of a Hoopoe here.

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