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Pulp-free: high literature’s warrant of purity

May 19, 2023 jonathanmorse
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Invocation at ascent

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Source: actress Edna French, Curtiss Field, Long Island, 1924. The Lammot du Pont, Jr. collection of aeronautical photographs, Hagley Museum and Library, hagleyvault.org.

October 12, 2018October 23, 2018 jonathanmorse
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Europe, 1940: who are these coming to the sacrifice?

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Source: Costică Acsinte Archive, https://www.flickr.com/photos/costicaacsinte/, image ca_20150205_023. Photoshopped.

October 28, 2016May 16, 2018 jonathanmorse
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Prow; tongue

Wearing the hat that makes a frieze of her face, she turns slightly away from what she is about to do to the wrinkled body above her, raises the bottle, and . . .

Source: “Miss Elizabeth Owens christens Sikorsky plane, 5/8/25.” National Photo Company Collection, Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/npc2007013513/. Photoshopped.

August 9, 2014May 16, 2018 jonathanmorse
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