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"Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head."
Chuck Palahniuk, 'Fight Club'
born Feb 21, 1962 #OTD
William Blake 'The Flight of Moloch'
from his illustrations to Milton's 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity,' c. 1815
The pyramids of Giza, imagined by Athanasius Kircher based on traveler’s reports, from 'Sphinx Mystagoga' (1676)
Fun fact: putting up horns behind someone's head originally meant they were a cuckold. The "Cuckold's Horns."
Illustrations by Artuš Scheiner for Hoffmann's 'The Nutcracker and the Mouse King' (1924)