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http://www.folger.edu/gravediggers-tale #shakespeare #firstfolio #folger

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Shaman or Horned God (Cernunnos), from the Gundestrup Cauldron.

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Head of a Capricorn, Egypt, 1,000 - 650 BC. Bronze, Gold. @ 📷 Ägyptisches Museum zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Jürgen Liepe.

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#Baaaaaaah #cyclops #satyr

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Orchard St NYC, April 2014

Photo by Landon Marcus

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Handy advice by writers. As part of their “Shared Worlds 2013”, Wofford college asked Neil Gaiman, Garth Nix, Lev Grossman,Joe Haldeman, and more artists, editors, and writers for a photo of their writing advice written on their hands. Check out the rest.

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truth and wisdom, hand-sized. Check the link for more…

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BILL WATTERSON ‘A cartoonist’s advice’

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WRITERS ON WRITING; Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points and Especially Hooptedoodle

By ELMORE LEONARD Published: July 16, 2001

These are rules I’ve picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I’m writing a book, to help me show rather than tell what’s taking place...

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1. Never open a book with weather.

2. Avoid prologues.

3. Never use a verb other than “said” to carry dialogue.

4. Never use an adverb to modify the verb “said.”

5. Keep your exclamation points under control.

6. Never use the words “suddenly” or “all hell broke loose.”

7. Use...

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Moby Dick by Bill Sienkiewicz

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Al Williamson cover art for EC Comics’  Weird Science-Fantasy #25, September, 1954

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Own.

Rökstenen, or The Rök runestone, is one of the most famous runestones and features the longest known runic inscription in stone. It’s also considered to be the first piece of Swedish literature and marks the beginning of the history of Swedish literature.

Fun fact:

The name “Rök Stone” is something of a tautology: the stone is named after the village, “Rök”, but the village is probably named after the stone, “Rauk” or “Rök” meaning “skittle-shaped stack/stone” in Old Norse.

(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B6k_Runestone)

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Jon Michaud on an oral history of heavy metal and his life as a Black Sabbath fan: http://nyr.kr/11I0Lzm

“I discovered Sabbath during my own teen-age period of self-indulgent pessimism, which was spent in another bombed-out city, Belfast. My years there coincided with the so-called New...

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Gun Ghosts Ride http://bit.ly/13fH0go