Gothic literature of the American South

Almost as scandalously humid as the weather in Truman Capote’s first novel was the jacket photograph of the author on his divan, in his bangs. More credit than he has received from history should go to the photographer, Harold Halma.

To trace the visionary company of love

Policy intellectual

3c23816uaidE and obit — Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/99471869/. Post-processed to restore contrast and detail.

Portrait with discus

4a13938v — Edward S. Hart, “U.S.S. Nahant, the ship’s mascots,” about 1898. Detroit Publishing Company Collection, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/det/item/2016806942/

Why has not man a microscopic eye?

But you don’t want to look up the next line from the Essay on Man.

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Statesman

He looks in the mirror and approvingly sings to his image, “Очи Чёрные”

In the studio’s waiting room they read “The Last Days of Pompeii”

This is the chapter of their archaeology.

This is their artifact. The event occurred at some time between February 1894 and February 1901. The woman’s name was apparently Emmons.

06681v — https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2016694120/

This is they.

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Mere life is wonder enough

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Mr. Chandoha, may I introduce Mr. Karsh and his sitter?