Laura Grover
lauragrover.bsky.social
Laura Grover
@lauragrover.bsky.social
History nerd, collector of vintage advice @QuestionableAdvice, a frequent victim of the Cat Distribution System, I used to be in IT but I took an arrow to the knee
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Maurice Sendak knew what was what
November 20, 2024 at 5:00 PM
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Want a pet basilisk? Then take an egg laid by a rooster and incubate it under a toad. It can kill with a glance though, so maybe pop some sunglasses on it...
#FolkyFriday
November 15, 2024 at 3:34 PM
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For lovers of #18thcentury and early #19thcentury satirists, our archive of George 'Moutard' Woodward cartoons may pique your fancy - we have nearly 500! They're all digitised and on our online catalogue: tinyurl.com/ykfs68pa

#history #archives #art
November 19, 2024 at 4:07 PM
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"Mamma had scarcely turn'd her back,
The thumb was in, alack! Alack!

The door flew open, in he ran,
The great, long, red-legged scissor-man.
Oh! Children, see! The tailor's come
And caught our little Suck-a-Thumb."

- Heinrich Hoffmann, "Little Suck-a-Thumb"
#FairyTaleTuesday
November 19, 2024 at 4:39 PM
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They say that "variety is the spice of life" but this is ridiculous.
November 20, 2024 at 1:55 PM
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I am continually fascinated by Fludd’s back square, both conceptually and materially. To depict this void required a substance: black printing ink. Which is composed of carbon: so the void or absence ends up depicted by the presence of burnt, earthly matter.
You see the printed black square from a page in Robert Fludd's "Utriusque cosmi maioris" (1617) that represented the nothingness that was prior to the universe. The square is framed by four sentences in Latin: "Et sic in infinitum" (And so on to infinity). #earlymodern #skystorians
November 20, 2024 at 12:25 PM