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pre-1912 cosmology.
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Source: Remarks on Delirium Tremens by Charles Stuart Tripler, 1827.Multiple Dreams
Source: Iconographic Encyclopaedia of Science, Literature, and Art by J. G. Heck, 1851.
Balancing Squalid Experiences
Source: Playground Technique and Playcraft, ed. Arthur Leland and Lorna Higbee Leland, 1910.
Chimera Prosecution
Source: Encyclopedia of Evidence, ed Edgar W. Camp and John F. Crowe, 1905.
Source: Garden Frames, Hitchings and Company, 1911.
Image source: The Beauty of the Heavens by Charles F. Blunt, 1842.Purity at Play
Convenience 117
The memory of dreams assumes intensity,
and it is certain that between love and tumult
there is always purity at play.
Source: The Psychology of Attention by Th. Ribot, 1890.
Source: Colour in Woven Design by Roberts Beaumont, 1890.Where Do I Find the Scents
Advertising Art Sources:Lundborg Perfumes, 1898.Delettrez Perfumes and Toilet Soaps, 1901.
Special Testimonial Works
Source: The Chemistry of Essential Oils and Artificial Perfumes by Ernest John Parry, 1899.
The Attraction of the Ocular Dream
The Attraction of the Ocular Dream
Visual freedom give the effect of independence
from having to experience
grim realities
Source: Archives of Ophthalmology by American Medical Association, 1879.
Bazaar of Dreams
Source: Browsing Among Books, and Other Essays by Abba Goold Woolson, 1881.
Lies I Did Not Intend to Tell
Source: "I Wonder if Ever the Rose" by David Slater, David, composer, 1906.
Counting the Black Dreams
Source: The Darkness of London Air by W. Hargreaves Raffles, 1890.
To Fully Inhabit
To fully inhabit the form and color of dreams
terminate the normal
and change attachments
Source: Inheritance of Flower-Form and Color in Digitalis, 1911.
Experimental Lecture
Image source: A Series of Anatomical Plates by Jones Quain, Sir Erasmus Wilson, and Joseph Pancoast, 1843.
Full-Throated Agreement
Source: A Series of Anatomical Plates by Jones Quain, Sir Erasmus Wilson, and Joseph Pancoast, 1843.
I Try and Mean to Focus
I Try & Mean to Focus
but I cannot sustain the bold strategy
for the visions have come again in my sleep,
and I am afraid.
Sources:[garden notes] by Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, 1828.I Try, & Mean to Gain One More Friend by John Crane of Bromsgrove, 1800.I Cannot Sing the Old Songs by Claribel, 1876.
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