Days [ ) School | Mark Twain, 1835-1910
Alfred Eisenstaedt, School, Ankara, Turkey, 1934 . "In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he...
Mark Twain
Instant Views [o.] Balance, 1920s-1950s
Stanley Kubrick, Circus scene, for Look Magazine, 1948 Children balance on rail in South Dakota,...
Thoughts on { Smoking | Sigmund Freud / J.M. Barrie / Mark Twain / Kurt Vonnegut
Ernesto Michahelles, aka Thayaht, Art Deco illustration, 1922 . “Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss” Sigmund Freud...
Conservatism, Power, Individual & Political Bias | Virgil / George Eliot / M. Twain / Erich Fromm / George Orwell / H. James / Evelyn Waugh
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bankers Trust, Manhattan, N.Y. 1960 . “The authoritarian character worships the past. What has been, will eternally be....
On [:] Quite | Mark Twain, 1835-1910
Édouard Manet, Young Lady, 1866 "She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you...
Instant Views [o.] Watermelons | Winslow Homer / Helen Levitt / Ruth Orkin / Vincenzo Balocchi / Irving Penn / Dennis Stock / George Bouzianis / Frida Kahlo / Nobuyoshi Araki
James P. Blair, Ear-deep in watermelon, a boy eats a juicy slice at a festival in Florida, December 1963 Anonyme...
Days [ ) Play / Mark Twain, 1835-1910
Palestinian women playing basketball in Araa village, 1965 . “Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play...
To the next Burglar | Mark Twain, 1908
As he slept upstairs on September 8th of 1908, two young burglars entered Mark Twain's home, took an entire sideboard...
Days [ ) Taming the Bicycle / Mark Twain, 1893
unknown "When you have reached the point in bicycling where you can balance the machine tolerably fairly and propel it...
Days [ ) Vision | Mark Twain, 1916
anon "I am but a dream--your dream, a creature of your imagination. In a moment you will have realized...