"The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it."
1880. Portrait of Anne-Marie Dagnan by Gustave Claude Etienne Courtois.
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Renee, The New Look of Dior, Place de la Concorde, Paris, August 1947” by Richard Avedon
Steve McQueen and friend
Peter Quince at the Clavier
Wallace Stevens
IV
Beauty is momentary in the mind —
The fitful tracing of a portal;
But in the flesh it is...
Olive Thomas
Christmas - 1910s
steam pale but sweet
“The impulse to become a writer suggests a fundamental fiscal incompetence.”
Ensemble by Emile Pingat, 1885 Paris, Shelburne Museum
Is it wrong that the Manolo is looking forward to this?
(via a-harlots-progress)
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