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Ilustraciones de Edmund Dulac para el Rubáiyát de Omar Khayyám. Biblioteca Crossett.

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The colors made me think of Paul's Apple Boutique Jacket!

the magic in these piano-hovering fingers

Unknown, Hands shooting sparks Detail of an illustration in Magic, 1400s-1950s edited by Noel Daniel. Köln: Taschen, 2009. BF1589.D36 M3 2009

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What a fascinating and true story. Billy Milligan was arrested for robbing three women and raping two of them at Ohio State University in the mid-70s. After his arrest it was determined that Billy Milligan was suffering from multiple personalities - 9 main personalities and 14 "undesirable" personalities. In fact, the Billy Milligan personality had been "asleep" for nearly 10 years.

Daniel Keyes does a masterful job of documenting the life of Billy Milligan through a third-person narrative, and then weaving in the various personalities. The explanation, provided by "Arthur" - one of the 3 controlling personalities - of how the various personalities perceived one another and the outside world was both incredible and illuminating.

What this book did for me, most of all, was show the absolute vastness of the human brain. Arthur spoke with a heavy British accent and was self-taught in physics and chemistry and read and wrote fluent Arabic. Tommy was an electronics specialist who could play the saxophone and trained himself to manipulate his hand bones and muscles to escape any cuffs. Ragen read, spoke, and wrote in Serbo-Croatian and could control his adrenaline flow. The ability of the brain to learn these very specialized fields, and then split them into very specific areas (personalities)...it just absolutely blew me away.

Again, it's a really great book and I'd highly recommend checking it out.

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Bookmobile - Madrid Spain Bookmobile in Madrid Spain. Bibliothèque ambulante à Madrid.

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<strong>Adeline Genee in Her Hunting Dance <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/crossettlibrary/">by Crossett Library</a></strong>

Photograph of "Adeline Genee in Her Hunting Dance" by Otto Sarony in Dancing and Dancers of Today: the Modern Revival of Dancing as an Art by Caroline and Charles H. Caffin. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1912. GV1619 .C3

[charkyzombicorn]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TAGGING ME ASIRJDOBEODHEK

SO Franky and Robin actually built the house, so it's full of secret crawlspaces and also has a basement with a secret entrance no one noticed when inspecting the house. Instead of being crammed in a stuffed basement, they're mostly hiding in the little underground library.

Franky and Robin died of a carbon monoxide leak in the house, so their ghosts are completely intact. But they really love their house and they don't want to leave it! They built it together! It's their baby! But then Buggy and Rose move in and Buggy starts tearing down wallpaper and repainting because it is his house now. I know originally the character that "ruins" the house is demonized but Buggy knows this house is older (aren't the ghost couple dead for like 50 years before they're strong enough to be sentient or smth? I haven't seen the movie in a While) so it's responsible to check for water, termite and pipe damage, he's just making it more suit him and Rose. Anyway. Franky and Robin don't like this because they're ghosts and ghosts have a tenancy to like things the way they are.

Rose is having a terrible no good very bad time, she doesn't know Buggy very well and Buggy isn't a super kind and nurturing or particularly friendly person and also hes basically just another foster dad for her, and she doesn't like foster parents because she doesn't like not having real parents and she doesn't like having to follow rules because she's basically been raising herself so who does Buggy think he is telling her she should do her homework? She's trying to work and save up enough to get herself emancipated because she hasn't felt like a kid in a long time, when she's exploring the house and accidentally finds the bookcase door down to the secret library. She starts hanging out down there to avoid Buggy (not because he's mean, but because he's trying to fit a parental role she's already half-filled by herself) she meets Franky and Robin and they both adore her, immediately start teaching her things because they have nothing else to do, how to do carpentry and new languages and they play games with her and they don't have to worry about her school or how she's settling in because they're not technically her parents - they get to do all the fun parts of being parents while Buggy gets demonized more and more because he has to do the serious parts of parenting and he's not good at it because he's young and raising a teenager

I feel like Rose would definitely take Crossette to see the Creepy Haunted Basement Library because lesbian flirting is Hard, Okay? And Crossette loves it

LUFFY BEING BEETLEJUICE?!

Okay so Luffy has been trying to make a deal to be seen by the mortal world for a Long time, but he's not very cunning so it hasn't gone well. Robin and Franky hire him to help them stop Buggy from making renovations, and Luffy understood this as 'terrorize Buggy until he leaves' and the couple just shrugged so that was the plan.

Sadly, Buggy is so busy working and renovating the house and trying to get back in contact with his family for Rose's sake and trying to get advice from other parents on how to raise a teenager and trying to get Rose into some kind of therapy and worrying about Rose that he's too tired to really notice ghost things as ghost things and not just him spacing out

@charkyzombicorn, had an awesome idea! Beetlejuice Au!

Rosè is Lydia. When she was a baby Circè died in a car wreck, and Rosè was placed into Rob Lucci’s care as his foster kid. Since Lucci is a dick, she got removed from his custody. Luckily by that time, her Uncle Buggy ended up friends with someone who might legitimately be a crime boss, and Crocodile helped hire Mihawk, a private investigator, to find Rosè.

Buggy and Rosè move into a new house together, only to find it’s haunted by ghosts, Franky and Robin.

I’m honestly thinking Luffy Beetlejuice but I’m not sure so I’m tagging you for your help

But also imagine Brook singing “What I Know Now” in the red beauty pageant dress.

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<strong>Westinghouse - dreamy household appliances <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/crossettlibrary/">by Crossett Library</a></strong> <br /><i>Via Flickr:</i> <br />Westinghouse advertisement with a housewife in bed surrounded by appliances. Time Magazine November 3, 1947. AP2 .T37 v.50 pt.2

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<strong>1924 Delahaye <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/crossettlibrary/">by Crossett Library</a></strong> <br /><i>Via Flickr:</i> <br />1924 Tentation / Temptation Advertisement illustrated by I. Stall for for Delahaye automobiles found by Emile Delahaye in 1894, in Tours, France in Theatre Sarah Bernhardt: Saison 1923-1924Publ. Willy Fischer, Soc. An. , 1924 Gift in Processing.

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love the guy assigned to my case at the “help you get a job” program. i have exactly 2 modes. 1) procrastinating until the absolute last minute. And 2) guess I will complete months worth of work that is also due at the end of the year in exactly 3 days of non-stop effort. You can basically flip a coin as to which approach my brain will decide to take for any given task.

so yeah I have a job now. and my poor case manager dude is like “wait. no. that was so fast. it’s been one week. you did how many interviews? and you picked...this one. the one that is not like anything you have done before and also was not on the “jobs I think would work out for me” list that we made?”

and he was scrambling like “accommodations. training. oh god. um. do i need to talk to your employers?” and getting more anxious when I was like “no i think I have it covered.” like i am sorry bro but i know that my vibes in person are like “quiet forgetful autistic person who can pass for either a high school student or a grandma at any moment” and this does not inspire confidence, but I am actually pretty independent once someone gives me a little push to start a thing.

also...dude you have my job history. winter sports area general worker (concessions, ticket sales, renting ski/snowshoe equipment, managing cross-country trails, monitoring the tube hill, etc.). family restaurant hostess (basically every role in the place except a cook). person selling fireworks out of tent for all of July while also living in a smaller tent behind the shipping crate filled with things that go boom. call center customer service rep handling 4 different clients that range from crafts and home decor to incontinence products and super expensive furniture. freelance dog-sitting with clients ranging from “rich couple who wants me to let their elderly cockapoos out twice a day for $50 bucks a pop in a house with a basement theater” to “i’ll give you $10 a day to exercise and feed the 3 huskies in our small apartment also they can jump higher than you are tall and scream louder than you thought possible.” bro we added a whole “volunteer experience” section to my resume because I wrote grants and worked with an environmental group to restore native bluebirds to the community and volunteered at the community table and the animal shelter and the library. like i have done lots of things that are not really connected at all. someone says “hey do you think you could do this?” and I am suddenly living out of a tent for a month googling “what the fuck is a crossette?” i once ended up in Memphis for 2 months doing volunteer construction work in the aftermath of a hurricane because my cousin didn’t want to go alone and everyone was like “oh we know someone who goes with the flow so hard.”

so you better believe i told you “oh i don’t know, maybe a receptionist position would be nice” and then applied to every local job known to god and then a few extra and took the first one to say “cool can you start next week?” i know i did not give off “I will try anything at least once if you ask me fast and then go ‘great!’ before I can process what i agreed to” vibes while sitting in your office in my colorful leggings, grandma sweaters and animal hats while not making eye contact and talking about how lovely my nephew is and how much I enjoy quiet time alone and gardening and i struggle with a poor memory and navigating social interactions. but i know you proofread my resume my guy. you asked questions about all these things except the construction thing because i actually forgot to mention that actually which is good because then i might have had to mention the cult involvement that i wasn’t aware of until i was stuck on-site but it all worked out so no sweat. still, i am glad that he is concerned by my “out of the blue” spontaneity. it’s kind of his job to help people settle into jobs that they can handle, and I also know that I would realistically need more assistance from him if I wasn’t so good at adapting on the fly due to my bad habit of saying “sure, I can do that” to literally anything. also my new job is honestly pretty tame, so i am not sure what he is freaking out about. i should really not mention some of the other jobs i spontaneously applied for before accepting this one. like..my friend...i could be working in a bridal shop. i could be training to install and repair vending machines or decorating cakes or delivering medical equipment. i applied for a job that was literally “window production.” none of these are actually as wild as that time I spent 2 months with a religious cult doing manual labor and living out of an abandoned, half-destroyed school building because my cousin talked me into it. i had to watch a dramatic reenactment of the crucifixion of Jesus on my very first night that brought the whole gymnasium of strangers to wild, howling tears while I was awkwardly clapping my hands as my cousin sobbed incoherently into my shoulder. i once dog-sat a bluetick coonhound for 2 weeks in the dead of winter, and the snow if his yard was so high that he was able to jump the fence and book it down the street. i had to chase him through knee-high snow for over an hour before he stopped to sniff a bemused old lady long enough for me to catch him. i once had a customer at the restaurant rail at me for a good twenty minutes because she was absolutely sure that we did serve pineapple upside down cake and i was just withholding this dessert from her, specifically. the bar for “jobs I would apply for” is so low that I actually thought “well as long as nobody spits in my face, pukes on me consistently, or shanks me in the kidney again I could probably do anything.” although to be fair to my case manager i did not mention those things to him (except the pineapple upside down cake lady because I mention her all the time, i am still pissed off about that situation). also, my sister was actually the one to have a dog wake her up in the middle of the night only to puke directly into her mouth, but I watched it go down, so the psychic trauma of witnessing that still exists.

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Alvin Lustig

Photo by Crossett Library Bennington College on flickr ·  ·  · Book cover design by Alvin Lustig for A Dream of Love by William Carlos Williams. New York: New Directions, c1948. PS3545.I544 .D7 1948

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Fortunato Depero by Crossett Library Bennington College Caffe Cirio advertisement in designed by Fortunato Depero in Domus 97 1936. N4 .D6 V.97-102 https://flic.kr/p/7Tj5p1

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Illustration by Charles Payzant by Crossett Library Via Flickr: Illustration by Charles Payzant in A Trip to Quebec Un Voyage à Québec by Terry Shannon illustrations by Charles Payzant. Chicago: Children's Press 1963.

[librarianreadseverything]

I've never seen the movie version of Contact, so I'm not sure how much of the book tracks with the movie. Which is to say that if you didn't like the movie, don't prejudge the book as I'm guessing that they've dropped a lot of the deeper dialogue that made Contact fantastic.

I think the most analogous book I've read would be Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, although Carl Sagan doesn't ascribe to the satire that Vonnegut excels in. Rather the book well traverses the intersection between Science and Religion, particularly in the grandness of the universe. Halloway's excursions to meet with the religious leaders Billy Jo Raskin and Palmer Joss, and then her individual conversations with Joss and Hadden really allow Sagan to transform the novel out of the bounds of "science fiction" and make the whole greater than its parts.

Frequently when I read books I'm looking for plot development, and Contact certainly had some of that, even being listed as a Top 100 Thrillers for the ending. But while the ending was satisfying, I again have to identify the various conversations that Halloway has with the other luminaries as the highlights of the book. I think those could be separately clipped and, without any knowledge of the broader book, be studied as entities unto themselves as guideposts for the continued clash between science and religion.

A really excellent work and well worth the time.

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library jungle

when students are off in the world and doing their own thing, away from their bennington house and room, and are concerned about their babies -- that is, their plants -- they have a wonderful option. 

Crossett Library, Bennington’s building of books, movies, friendly people, and love -- babysits students’ plants over breaks. take a look at a small fraction of the beautiful jungle that forms in our library at the end of every term! 

<3 susan ‘17 and will ‘17

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XIV “Look to the blowing Rose about us--"Lo, Laughing," she says, "into the world I blow, At once the silken tassel of my Purse Tear, and its Treasure on the Garden throw." 

The Rubaiyat By Omar Khayyam Written 1120 A.C.E.

http://classics.mit.edu/Khayyam/rubaiyat.html

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Edmund Dulac illustration in Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám | by Crossett Library Bennington College

Edmund Dulac illustration in Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám by Crossett Library Bennington. Rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald.Edmund Dulac illustration in Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám | by Crossett Library Bennington College

Edmund Dulac illustration in Rubáiyát of Omar KhayyámThe Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: The Blowing Rose - Edmund Dulac

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