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Iconic Photos

Best photojournalism site yet discovered.
(Via The ever reliably interesting Coudal site)

Rune Ring

Shiny Datsun: 1971 | Shorpy Historic Photo Archive

Why you can’t time travel.

BibleBot

In the selfsame day , as her soul was in the land of Shinar ; and he
called the name of the well was called Zoar . Then Judah came near ,
and gave her not , tell and if he said , I pray you . And it came to
Abimelech in a cubit shalt thou make [...]

Alternative reality

Teaser for the exploratory discovery project

W.H. Auden: 70 Years Ago Today

Via Grasping Reality with Both Hands
W.H. Auden: 70 Years Ago Today

September 1, 1939

I sit in one of the dives
On Fifty-second Street
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade:
Waves of anger and fear
Circulate over the [...]

I grew up in suburbia, I admit it

Suburbia, noun, a vast prison of tasteless, homogenized villainy created to despoil the environment, enforce conformity with narrow minded norms while isolating the inmates from any sense of community empowerment to enrich their lives through commitment to any ideal other than property values.
For most of history, the suburbs were where the poor were banished from [...]

From Middle Earth

Fair lands, evil, quests, despair, death and resurrection, restoration, old wounds, repose, song, memory, mercy, power, betrayal, trust.

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