Revelation

It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought. Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.

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Statuary

Sculpture is more divine, and more like nature,
that fashions all her works in high relief,
and that is sculpture. This vast ball, the Earth,
was moulded out of clay, and baked in fire;
Men, women, and all animals that breath
are statues, and not paintings.

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‘Aftermath’ by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Books add something extra [1966].
1 print : color ; sheet 40 x 28 cm (poster format)

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Today in Labor History November 29, 1832: Louisa May Alcott, author, nurse, feminist and abolitionist, was born. Her writing was influenced by the transcendentalists, like Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne and Longfellow, whom she knew personally. While she was most famous for her book, “Little Women,” she also wrote “Work,” an autobiographical novel that exposed the exploitation of women workers. Poverty forced her to work at a young age as a teacher, seamstress, governess and domestic. During the Civil War, she worked as a nurse and developed typhoid fever. The medicine she took contained mercury, which may have contributed to the autoimmune disorders that plagued her for the rest of her life and that ultimately killed her. She is buried on Author’s Ridge, at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, in Concord, near Emerson, Thoreau and Hawthorne.

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A quotation from Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) American poet
“The Village Blacksmith,” st. 7 (1840)

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‘PANDORA: …What else remains for me?

EPIMETHEUS:
Youth, #hope, and love:
To build a new life on a ruined life,
To make the future fairer than the past,
And make the past appear a troubled dream...’

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Masque of Pandora (1875)

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Today's poem:

Jugurtha
- by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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