hung from existing phone jack. no connection. and yet, line static discernible... which is all the communication I need, usually.

love the rotary dial action, resistance.
and the heft of the handset.

flummoxed screengrab, A9 detail, The New York Times (Tuesday, October 29, 2024),
the why I like printed newspaper (I've said before).

scanned, considered in Photoshop CS3 (ca 2007), on a laptop unknown to the cybersphere for 10+ years, and abandoned as captured here

aside —
that newspaper seems to me now utterly irrelevant.
so much gotcha ink on so much outrage, umbrage, offended sensibilities

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detail encountered,
west end, at/behind broken spine,
between pp 192-193 (Imperial-Iniquity / Ink-Iron)
J. Hain Friswell (1825-78) his Familiar Words : An Index Verborum or Quotation Handbook (Second edition, revised and enlarged; 1866)

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And what ruins they were! All around lay the great engines of logic, broken and out of gear; the faded images; the brave dead words, splendid even in their death; the fallen marbles; the shattered ideas, still startling in their fragments.
“That’s not quite ruined,” he said to himself now and then, “maybe I can use it” … and he laid it aside.

ex W. E. Woodward (1874-1950), Lottery (1924) : 305

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