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Came to the Bookshop to Look at My Beloved Self
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Know anyone as much like Caligula as Joffrey Baratheon?
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There Is No Better Definition of the Word "Cringe" Than This Portrait of the Argentine President as Napoleon
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Vladimir Weisberg Has Depicted My Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner for the Duration of Great Lent
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Monument to Sparky, the Squirrel Who Sought the Light Even in the Darkest of Times
Monument to Sparky, the squirrel who sought the light even in the darkest of times. The memorial was erected by a group of students on the campus of Delaware Valley University in the United States. The students thus expressed their gratitude to the squirrel that gnawed through an electric cable,
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The Sphinx Who Understood Everything
NB! · Archive · London · Mores · Humour
A Mockery of Modern Hairstyles, Daily Mirror, 13 July 1931
Books · Society · Humour
Alexander Galich in “Night Watch” on a procession of monuments and a bronze generalissimo
When the festivities die down in the city, When sinners sleep and the righteous too, The state storerooms Quietly let the monuments slip away. Hundreds of thousands (all of them alike) Go along the moonlit path, And chance passers-by Tumble head over heels into the "emergency ambulance"
Art · Museums · Rome · Humour
The Dutch painter Johannes van Wijkerslot replies to the Italian Bartolomeo Mendozzi
1: A youth playing cards. Presumably Bartolomeo Mendozzi, 1630s. Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome. 2: A card game on a cradle (detail). Johannes van Wijkerslot, 1683. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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A Francis Bacon Self-Portrait on the Cover of George Orwell
A Francis Bacon self-portrait on the cover of George Orwell. What a stroke of luck, my dropping in just now
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