NB! · Faith · Art · London · Museums

A colossal diorite scarab beetle from the British Museum, a metre and a half long, symbolising the morning aspect of the solar deity

NB! · Humour

And then he will say that a little bird told him

NB! · Books · Mores · People

Albert Camus and His Cat, Cigarette

Grey map of Europe showing the number of wolves in each country, with zeros on the British Isles and in Iceland, and drawings of wolves and trees.

NB! · Geography · Observations · Nature

Map of wolf numbers across European countries, with none in England

How many wolves live in the countries of Europe? England: 0. One would think that those who lecture the whole world on ecological thinking might have spared their own nature, yet they have disfigured it quite thoroughly

NB! · Observations · Humour

Genuine Culture vs Modern Tat: 1–0

A wooden horse harnessed to a two-wheeled cart with a small figure seated under a black parasol.

NB! · Art · Museums

Wooden chariot and horse from China, dated to the 200s AD

Chinese wooden chariot with a wooden horse. 200s AD.

NB! · Observations · Humour

A unique domestic original and a quality Western analogue, as so often happens, with the function altered to its very opposite

NB! · Books · Observations · Humour

I have been looking for ages for precisely these sombre-hued stickers for reading Dostoevsky

NB! · Cinema · Pop Culture · Humour

"What is it, Barrymore?" "Varenesaurs, sir"

NB! · Archive · The East

British Colonial Troops Marching Past the Great Pyramids, 1940

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1 January

NB! · Books · Observations · Mores