An example of 19th century caricature art
Achille Lemot (1846-1909) — Gustave Flaubert Dissecting Madame Bovary (illustration from “The Parody'', 1869)

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The Dream Walker
The silence of the street seemed to close in around him whilst his own thoughts were riddled with disquiet.
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One needed only to reveal themselves as a messenger from the Gods to invoke adoration and unquestioning loyalty.
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The Bed-Time Book, by Helen Hay Whitney, 1907. by Jessie Willcox Smith, one of America’s most popular & prolific children’s

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- "From that chamber, and from that mansion, I fled aghast. The storm was still abroad in all its wrath as I found myself crossing the old causeway. Suddenly there shot along the path a wild light..."
- The Fall Of The House Of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe

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"The sun shines there no brighter than a star, but the beings need no light. They have other subtler senses and put no windows in their great houses and temples. Light even hurts and hampers and confuses them..."
~ The Whisperer In Darkness by H.P. Lovecraft

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Far safer through an Abbey gallop,
The stones achase,
Than, moonless, one's own self encounter
In lonesome place.

– Emily Dickinson, “Ghosts”


🖼 John Constable

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Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,
    It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore—
Clasp a rare & radiant maiden…”

Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”
–Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven.
🖼Edmund Dulac

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And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine.
–John Steinbeck, East of Eden.

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'There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath...'
-Herman Melville, Moby Dick.

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🎨Martin Aagaard

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The Dream Walker
The silence of the street seemed to close in around him whilst his own thoughts were riddled with disquiet.
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‘“Will you walk a little faster?”
said a whiting to a snail.
“There’s a porpoise close behind us,
and he’s treading on my tail.’ Carroll’s The Mock Turtle’s Song. Illustration ~ John Tenniel

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Letting go of logic was always half the fun of Wonderland: ❤️🫖

“For if one drinks much from a bottle marked ‘poison,’ it’s almost certain to disagree with one sooner or later.”
–Alice

“I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.” –Alice

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“Wynken, Blynken and Nod one night
Sailed off in a wooden shoe -
Sailed on a river of crystal light,
Into a sea of dew...”

A C19th bedtime by Eugene Field. by Margaret Tarrant, for Verses for Children, 1918.

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The Dream Walker
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You never heard of a water-baby. That is the very reason why this story was written.
"But there are no such things as water-babies."
How do you know that? If Mr. Garth does not find a fox in Eversley Wood- that does not prove that there are no such things as foxes.

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“Speak in French when you can’t think of the English for a thing—turn out your toes as you walk—and remember who you are!”
― Lewis Carroll, Through The Looking Glass

🎨Mervyn Peake (1945)

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'The wolf ran as fast as he could, taking the shortest path, and the little girl took a roundabout way, entertaining herself by gathering nuts, running after butterflies, and gathering bouquets of little flowers.'
-Charles Perrault

🎨Graham Franciose

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"Jofuku put into Sentaro's hand a little crane made of paper, telling him to sit on it's back and it would carry him to the country of Perpetual Life. Sentaro obeyed wonderingly. The crane grew large enough for him to ride on it with comfort. It then spread...

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