Momentary curio

Donnish

How stone becomes precious

Methinks no face so gracious is as mine

“Beneath half-watt rays,

Pound, “Medallion”

The eyes turn topaz.”

The caution

Richard S. Levy

May 10, 1940 – June 23, 2021

Historian of antisemitism

Auspices, before and during the reading of the death symbols

Extispicium relief, Forum of Trajan. Louvre, http://ancientrome.ru/art/artworken/img.htm?id=4694

Joseph Antoine Callet, “Nungesser et un de ses mécaniciens.” Bibliothèque nationale de France, https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/2020601/https___1914_1918_europeana_eu_contributions_11295_attachments_115062. Detail restored.