“The Convention thought the Senate the most fit depository of this important trust. Where else than in the Senate could have been found a tribunal sufficiently dignified, or sufficiently independent? What other body would be likely to feel confidence…
“This brings me to one last point. It is not merely that reporting is useful
in gathering the petits faits vrais that create verisimilitude and make a novel gripping or absorbing, although that side of the enterprise is worth paying attention to. My …
vintageanchor:
Letter: Vladimir Nabokov Defines Pornography…
“In 1964, Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously wrote that, while he couldn’t definitively state what makes a work “pornography,” “I know it when I see it.” Had Stewart…
mediumaevum:
In the Middle Ages women and men often doted on their pets. In York Minster, there is a portrait of the lap dog of Lady Margaret Roos, rendered in stained glass. The dog looks happy and sleek, with a belled collar.
In the picture he…
themodernhistory:
British Library newspaper archive puts 300 years of history online – Telegraph
Sixty-five million historic newspaper articles, covering the most significant events over the last 300 years, are now fully available online from today…
“QUESTIONS ABOUT THE reliability of Kapu?ci?ski’s reportage begin with The Emperor. His informants here are mainly former Ethiopian court servants labouring under anonymising initials, making them sound curiously like characters in an eighteenth-…
“INTERVIEWER
How did you start writing?
GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ
By drawing. By drawing cartoons. Before I could read or write I used to draw comics at school and at home. The funny thing is that I now realize that when I was in high school I had the repu…
SS Normandie, renamed USS Lafayette, lies capsized in the frozen mud of her New York Pier the winter of 1942.
onstanleyon:
the wreck of the RMS Queen Elizabeth in Hong Kong harbor, 1972
dearj-:
SS Normandie. Built 1935 for the French Line, Compagnie Generale Transatlantique. Destroyed by fire at Pier 88, Manhattan, New York City on February 9th, 1942. by vox3000 on Flickr.
Iconic (almost Brutalist) poster for Normandie, CGT.
