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I like alchemical/hermetic/rosicrucian/occult illustrations, although when I say occult I mean "hidden knowledge," arcane and esoteric, as I'm not very interested in the supernatural; anatomical drawings; automatons; taxidermy animals; medieval and Renaissance painting; things that are baroque in several senses of the word; tarot; doors; gates; general old stuff; silent movies; photographs, art, and quotes that I find evocative; pretentious things; rabbits; giraffes; street fashion; alternative culture (especially involving the 1980s); design; etc. Beauty and mystery in excess.
I don't reblog: photographs that seem too oriented to mainstream fashion publications; posts where the originating blog's name might be offensive (racial slurs, etc.); or photos/art that are heavily suggestive of sexual violence.
I don't use Tumblr for fandom, so my interests in that direction rarely show up here. I like Death Note, The Mentalist, Elementary, Community, New Girl, White Collar, Studio Ghibli movies, Tolkien, Tyrion Lannister (if you say "Game of Thrones", people think you like the Starks, and honestly I am bored by the Starks except as roleplayed on the internet by friends), Haven, Archer, etc.
"Unicorn skulls" is a reference to "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" by Haruki Murakami. I also like Nabokov and David Mitchell and, well, Georgette Heyer.
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A cipher created by Lewis Carroll between the publications of Alice and The Hunting of the Snark.
Unless there’s something different about this that I’m not noticing, it’s actually a Vigenère Table or Tabula Recta. Definitely pre-dates Lewis Carroll. “The Alphabet Cipher” was an article he wrote about it, not a cipher he created.
(via theparisreview)
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The Antwerp Owl Goblet (1548-1549). Silver and coconut.
This is the oldest known Antwerp owl goblet. The head of the owl could be screwed off, so people could drink from its body.
An old Dutch saying was engraved around the neck of the bird: ‘Als alle ander fogels sin thoe neste sois min flige beste.’ (‘When all the birds are [lying] in their nests, my flight is best’) - Decribing the owl as a bird who is active at night.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/b9e5c1ea39f5025dfd11790de6ae2b7c/tumblr_mg82167Xz21rf5yajo1_400.jpg)
The Antwerp Owl Goblet (1548-1549). Silver and coconut.
This is the oldest known Antwerp owl goblet. The head of the owl could be screwed off, so people could drink from its body.
An old Dutch saying was engraved around the neck of the bird: ‘Als alle ander fogels sin thoe neste sois min flige beste.’ (‘When all the birds are [lying] in their nests, my flight is best’) - Decribing the owl as a bird who is active at night.
(via unnaturalist)
- A seventeenth-century pomander and chain
- A parcel-gilt silver pomander, made in Italy in the 16th century; features a niello inscription
- Pomander, gold filigree, enclosing a ball of ambergris. 1600-1700
- Gold and Silver Pomander, 16th Century
***Pomander - a ball made of perfumes, such as ambergris (whence the name),musk, or civet. The pomander was worn or carried in a vase, also known by the same name, as a protection against infection in times of pestilence or merely as a useful article to modify bad smells. The globular cases which contained the pomanders were hung from a neck-chain or belt, or attached to the girdle, and were usually perforated and made of gold or silver. Sometimes they contained several partitions, in each of which was placed a different perfume.
