victusinveritas

[victusinveritas]

[victusinveritas]

Virgil Finlay 1952

[victusinveritas]

[victusinveritas]

Cat Ballou(1965)

[victusinveritas]

Originally from Toyfare #6

[victusinveritas]

Art by Arthur Adams

[victusinveritas]

In Journey to Chandara, by James Gurney, inhabitants of Dinotopia's Forbidden Mountains are visited by the Boon Sloth, who bestows on them a gift. One of my favorite twists on Christmas, and another bit of purely fantastic paleoart by the true master. Happy Yuletide, all!

[victusinveritas]

[victusinveritas]

[victusinveritas]

No, Google Docs, there is a distinct difference between "cussing" and "cursing."

[victusinveritas]

Thread from Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez on her experience in a hospital in Cuba

[victusinveritas]

Translation from the French “ When Jean Piaget was asked about the supposed disorder of his studio, he replied:

“As you know, Bergson showed that disorder does not exist! There are two types of order, geometric order and vital order. Mine is clearly vital! The folders I use are within easy reach, in the order indicated by need. The same goes for finding a reference down there from ten or fifteen years ago. The folders further down become a tricky thing, but when you have to look, you look. It takes less time than tidying up every day.

The concept of vital order is powerful, it does not only imply distributing things according to need but, above all, being able to participate in the way things are arranged. In this way, only when I have a voice, a vote and a margin of action in the distribution of things can we speak of a vital order.

Perhaps in the social order the dynamic works the same. When we are alien to the way things are arranged, when there is no possibility of transforming that order, when it is totally imposed on us, then it becomes an oppressive order, in which we live without the chance to transform it and order it according to our needs. The opposite of vital order is not disorder, but rather oppression.

There is hope: the day we understand, as Sartre says, that we are what we make of what was made of us. Of course, the temptation in this context is to believe that it is a question of a merely individual action. One hundred and fifty years ago, Tolstoy said that what moves the world is the activity of all the people who take part in the event and come together. It is collective action that can lead us to transform this world of geometric order into a world with a vital order."

[victusinveritas]

'Midwinter Orison' by Andy Kehoe

[victusinveritas]

[victusinveritas]

The Spice must Snow.

[victusinveritas]

[victusinveritas]