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"I want to have an effect on my time, in which humans are so confused and in need of help."

Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945) in what is now

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2021-07-09

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“I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.”
Franz Kafka (Letters to Milena)

🖌Ron Hicks🇺🇸Spending More Time

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2021-07-03


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: Jean Paul Sartre :

Au Café Flore . et "ses" grands écrivains au Café de Flore .
Photo by Cartier-Bresson .
de Sartre ,2 parmi tant d'autres...

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2021-06-21

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"We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end."
Lillian Hellman (1905-1984)

🖌Nora Heysen 🇦🇺 Eggs, 1927

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2021-06-20

Happy Birthday to Spanish painter Diego Velázquez (June 6, 1599 – August 6, 1660).

Part One

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2021-06-06

Born on this day: Joe Hill.

Here's the tenth anniversary edition of 20th Century Ghosts from PS Publishing, with art by Vincent Chong.

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2021-06-04

Remembering the great Zelda Rubinstein, unforgettable as eccentric medium Tangina Barrons in the Poltergeist film series. This house is clean!

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2021-05-28

Born on this day in 1941, the great Mary Danby. Through the 70s and into the early 80s, she was the gateway to horror for so many British children, myself included.

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2021-05-26

Born on this day in 1935, Susan Cooper.

Here's the Margaret K. McElderry 2002 revised hardcover edition of Greenwitch.

I don't know who the cover art is by, but I love it.

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2021-05-23

The Pack by William Essex.

AKA John Tigges, born on this day (1932-2008).

Cover art by Brian Kotzky.

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2021-05-17

Happy Birthday to American artist and educator Laura Wheeler Waring (May 16, 1887 – February 3, 1948), best known for her paintings made during the Harlem Renaissance.

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2021-05-17