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Cecil Beaton - Carmen Dell’Orefice Wearing a Dress by Sofia of Saks Fifth Avenue (Vogue 1946)

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“Of course, the angel-roof is our great show-piece—I think myself it’s even lovelier than the ones at March or Needham Market, because it has all the original colouring. At least, we had it touched up here and there about twelve years years back, but we didn’t add anything. It took ten years to persuade the churchwardens that we could put a little fresh gold-leaf on the angels without going straight over to Rome, but they’re proud of it now. We hope to do the chancel roof too, one day. All these ribs ought to be painted, you can still see traces of colour, and the bosses ought to be gilt.”

—Mrs. Venables in Dorothy L. Sayers, The Nine Tailors, “The Second Course: The Bells in Their Courses,” 1934.

The angel roof was a popular church fixture in England from about 1395 to 1530, particularly in the East Anglia region. Because of their relative inaccessibility on the ceiling, the carved and brightly painted wooden angels were able to survive the general destruction of Roman Catholic church iconography during the English Reformation. (x)

Image 1: Double-hammer beam angel roof at St. Wendreda’s Church, March, Cambridgeshire. (x)

Image 2: Double-hammer beam angel roof at St. John the Baptist, Needham Market, Suffolk. (x)

Image 3: Painted angel roof, St. Edmund, Southwold, Suffolk. (x)

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Geoffrey Preston Sculpture

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ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to surrender myself to the mercurial whims of The Manuscripts

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Sophus Jacobsen (1833 - 1912)

Snowy Churhyard

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“I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.” Richard Brautigan

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If my brain worked I could write smth coherent about the invisible servant and being one. But my brain does not work

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by H. Murray

newsletter

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Leaving London for a week–– I always miss the city, looking forward to being back already (and who can blame me, just look at this light in the library)

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Marchesa, Fall 2016, Ready to Wear Collection

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today in "making up ways to help kids decompress on the fly": i had kids cup their hands in front of them and for 1 silent minute, picture a small mouse in their hand. afterwards they got to tell me, one at a time, what their mice did

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silk corset dated late 1700s.

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Fyodor Buchholz (Russian, 1857-1942)

Ladyfriends, 1902

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“How can we distinguish what is biologically determined from what people merely try to justify through biological myths? A good rule of thumb is ‘Biology enables, culture forbids.’ Biology is willing to tolerate a very wide spectrum of possibilities. It’s culture that obliges people to realise some possibilities while forbidding others. Biology enables women to have children – some cultures oblige women to realise this possibility. Biology enables men to enjoy sex with one another – some cultures forbid them to realise this possibility. Culture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural. But from a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural. A truly unnatural behaviour, one that goes against the laws of nature, simply cannot exist, so it would need no prohibition. No culture has ever bothered to forbid men to photosynthesise, women to run faster than the speed of light, or negatively charged electrons to be attracted to each other. In truth, our concepts ‘natural’ and unnatural’ are taken not from biology, but from Christian theology. The theological meaning of ‘natural’ is ‘in accordance with the intentions of the God who created nature’. Christian theologians argued that God created the human body, intending each limb and organ to serve a particular purpose. If we use our limbs and organs for the purpose envisioned by God, then it is a natural activity. To use them differently than God intends is unnatural. But evolution has no purpose. Organs have not evolved with a purpose, and the way they are used is in constant flux. There is not a single organ in the human body that only does the job its prototype did when it first appeared hundreds of millions of years ago. Organs evolve to perform a particular function, but once they exist, they can be adapted for other usages as well. Mouths, for example, appeared because the earliest multicellular organisms needed a way to take nutrients into their bodies. We still use our mouths for that purpose, but we also use them to kiss, speak and, if we are Rambo, to pull the pins out of hand grenades. Are any of these uses unnatural simply because our worm-like ancestors 600 million years ago didn’t do those things with their mouths?”

— Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Harari, Yuval Noah)

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Little Nas Are You Working On Your Raps

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Tilleghem Castle , Sint-Michiels, West Flanders, Belgium,

Bᴏʀɪꜱ Fɪʟᴄʜɪᴋᴏᴠ Photography