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Drawing, Fencing, Cycling, Spaceships and Knitting. And Venice.
lordwarkworth: book-aesthete: The Hobbit; or, There and Back Again Tolkien, J.R.R. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, date ? With 6 full-page black & white illustrations by the author. 18.5x12.5 cm. (7¼x5”), green cloth, color pictorial jacket designed by the author. Signed by J.R.R. Tolkien on color plate from a drawing by him of The Hill, Hobbiton, inserted before the half-title; likely it is from another copy, being slightly taller and a bit narrow than the text block. The jacket states Fourteenth Impression. Any copies of The Hobbit signed by Tolkien are quite scarce. ____________________________________________“Far over the misty mountains coldTo dungeons deep and caverns oldWe must away ere break of dayTo seek the pale enchanted gold.” I’ve got a copy of this at home. Absolutely lush.
ajsketchbook: Day 7
scientificillustration: Report on the ENIAC (Electronic numerical integrator and computer) (1946) Via Keri Thompson
flasd: by italian concrete/sound poet arrigo lora-totino
disimilate: Tower of Babel
telawrence: T.E. Lawrence with George Brough, creator of the Brough Superior motorcycles he so loved. October, 1930.
aboutegypt: 102-0216_IMG_Ancient_Egyptian_calendar (by globetrotter_rodrigo) Calendar of the Festivals in the Great Temple of Amen-Ra, Karnak Temple Complex
sailorplacide: Tobias Verhaecht (1561–1631)
missfolly: First Page of ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’, from the Cotton Nero A.x manuscript, late 10th century The siege and assault having ceased at Troy as its blazing battlements blackened to ash, the man who had planned and plotted that treason had trial enough for the truest traitor! Then Aeneas the prince and his honored line plundered provinces and held in their power nearly all the wealth of the western isles. Thus Romulus swiftly arriving at Rome sets up that city and in swelling pride gives it his name, the name it now bears; and in Tuscany Tirius raises up towns, and in Lombardy Langoberde settles the land, and far past the French coast Felix Brutus founds Britain on broad hills, and so bright hopes begin,                where wonders, wars, misfortune                and troubled times have been,                where bliss and blind confusion                have come and gone again. From the founding of Britain by this brave prince, bold men have bred there, burning for war, stirring up turmoil through the turning years. More wonders in the world have been witnessed here than anywhere else from that age forward. But of all who were crowned kings over Britain the most honor was Arthur’s, as old tales tell. So I mean to make known a marvel on earth, an astonishing sight, as some men would call it, an extraordinary exploit among Arthur’s wonders. Listen to this lay for a little while and as townsmen tell it, so this tale will trip along,                a story pinned in patterns                steadfast, steady, strong:                aligned in linking letters                as folk have loved so long.
Wise Old Men #8 Frank Herbert
phassa: Building Tower of Babel The Bedford Hours 1423
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