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07/05/2020

"Hermitage Near Albano". Graphite and gray wash.

Sir George Howland Beaumont, 7th Baronet, 1782.

Yale Center for British Art.

06/19/2020

A doctor fell into a well,
and broke his collarbone;
A doctor should attend the sick,
and leave the well alone.
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05/25/2020

05/22/2020

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05/22/2020

05/22/2020

04/27/2020

Reading of the poem The Old Place by Avram Ohm. Reading by Don Odom. Avram Ohm writes: "I wrote this poem at age 17 in the days immediately following the pas...

02/13/2020

This unusual Latin to English glossary is from Bernard S. Talmey's "Love: A Treatise on the Science of Sex-Attraction" (1919), a 458-page treatise on carnal acts which has all words deemed too scandalous translated into Latin. Ranging from the familiar (cu*******us, fe****io, libido), to the expected (sugo for “suck”, lambo for “lick”, fricare for “rub”), to the distinctly worrisome (gallina for “hen”, canis for dog), to the plain intriguing (nono quoque die for "every nine days"), the list gives a fairly good sense of what’s to come in Talmey’s study of the varieties of human sexual experience.

More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/glossary-of-censored-words-from-a-1919-book-on-love

02/11/2020

One of the 28 spectacular "pattern poems" produced by the Frankish Benedictine monk Rabanus Maurus in his 9th-century work De laudibus sanctae crucis (In Praise of the Holy Cross).⠀
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Each poem has a grid of letters which constitutes a poem, but into this chaos of letters are interwoven other forms — be they bodies, shapes, or larger letters — placed into the grid in such a way as to incorporate and make use of the letters to produce new poems (or at least words or sentences). For example, in this image featured here we see the words CRUX SALUS (The Cross is Salvation) boldly highlighted from the grid. But closer inspection reveals a third layer here. Each of these large letters itself is comprised of a word: for example, within the C is the word “Seraphin” and within the R another member of the heavenly hosts, “Cherubim”. Both these additional layers (of the large letters and the words within) fail to disrupt the background grid and its sense. It is a remarkable feat of planning and invention. ⠀
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More here: https://buff.ly/31Dc5jY

11/08/2019

11/07/2019

Messages of Love
sent from Heaven to Earth
McLin Van Hawkins

08/23/2019

Check out Spy Hunter ... | https://m.facebook.com/Spy-Hunter-108096967219020/

Spy Hunter opened its doors to the public on Friday the 13th October, 2008.

05/28/2019

Sometimes it takes a writer of fiction to remind us of what should be an obvious truth ...

04/13/2019

"To be a writer, write!" - Epictetus, c. 55 – 135 AD

12/30/2018

Take a moment and lend a “like” to our fellow writer Avam Ohm ... | http://www.facebook.com/avramohm

When not writing aphorisms or other pithy sayings, Avram Ohm earns his living by impersonating Donal