fuckyeahbookshelves:onhershelf:
Tama Art University Library, Japan
Dodo-space, Moscow
INTRODUCTION.
IN placing before my readers in the following pages the results of my twenty-five years’ experience of Rat-catching, Ferreting, &c., I may say that I have always done my best to accomplish every task that I have undertaken, and I have in consequence received excellent testimonials from many corporations, railway companies, and merchants. I have not only made it my study to discover the different and the best methods of catching Rats, but I have also taken great interest in watching their ways and habits, and I come to the conclusion that there is no sure way of completely exterminating the Rodents, especially in large towns. If I have in this work referred more particularly to Rat-catching in Manchester that is only because my experience, although extending over a much wider area, has been chiefly in that city, but the methods I describe are equally applicable to all large towns.
Yours truly,
IKE MATTHEWS.
PEOFESSIONAL RAT-CATCHER,
PENDLETON,
MANCHESTER.Full revelations of a professional rat-catcher, after 25 years’ experience (1898) - Archive.org via Improbable Research.
Vladimir Mayakovsky 1915
“We alone are the face of our Time. Through us the horn of time blows in the art of the world. The past is too tight. The Academy and Pushkin are less intelligible than hieroglyphics. Throw Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, etc., etc. overboard from the Ship of Modernity. He who does not forget his first love will not recognize his last.”
Vladimir Mayakovsky, from “A Slap in the Face of Public Taste” 1912
m-altruism:Biblioteca Geral University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Haruki Murakami
A smart new look: The book hat
Why leave the books at home in the bookcase when they can serve as stylish and practical hats, protecting you from the sun and rain while giving you the chance to impress people?
Imagine all your friends saying, “She must be smart. She’s wearing a Shakespeare hat.”
(I wonder if I could learn a foreign language through osmosis by wearing a French dictionary on my head.)
These models were showing off the bookish look during India Fashion Week, and there’s no doubt it will be the rage by the spring of next year, so start checking your bookshelves for something sharp right now.
And, remember. It’s a fashion faux pas to wear a paperback after Labor Day. Fall and winter are for hardcovers.
—Jack Perry (photos via AP)
(click photo to visit Jack’s original blog post at projo.com)
