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Athena to Penelope when Odysseus and her reunite:

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Daphne to Apollo:

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Zeus about Ganymede:

Abduction of Persephone:

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Phaethon:

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Caenis’ Wish To Poseidon:

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Narcissus:

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Echo:

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Circe to odysseus's men regarding sirens:

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Homer to the Muse:

#mythology jokes

worlds-laziest-polymath

This is my contribution to collective memory for today.

#gunk #it was the 60s #it came from a motorcycle workshop manual

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Tricks with handkerchiefs by Professor Hoffman

[a section from Later Magic]

#old books #michael moon's bookshop

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The Gadabout Train by Brian Grimshaw - Illustrated by Leslie S Haywood

The First Bong Book c1942

#1940's #michael moons bookshop #get your bong book and go gadding about

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#do you like a mod shag?#thought as much #inadvertently funny

Meanwhile in 1922...

From Punch, February and November 1922.

I suspect the vaccination one is more smallpox than the flu, but I'm not sure.

The first one is certainly the flu pandemic.

Both EH Shepherd, by the way.

#punch magazine #1920s #1920s cartoons #EH Shepherd

adamsvanrhijn

i want to thank the 1920s-1930s third wheel who saw their two friends lying in bed together in their underwear and stocking garters reading a book with their legs wrapped around each other and said "i am going to take a photograph of this"

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i hope wherever they are now that everyone involved in the taking of this photograph knows how much joy it is bringing me 80-100 years later

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Never before published images of men in love between 1850 and 1950 by Dee Swan, Hugh Nini andNeal Treadwell (Washington Post)

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Reblogging this again because please, please click the link and look at the other photos but more importantly read the words written by the owners of the collection because it’s so touching and heart-warming