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pre-1912 cosmology.
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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.
The Trouble I Dream of
Source: Help! Help! Help! : How Needless to Sink into Despair When Help is Right at Hand!, 1893.
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.
Consider the Level of Ease
Source: Freehand Perspective and Sketching by Dora Miriam Norton, 1909.
Lesson in the Tapestry of Dreams
A Lesson in the Tapestry of Dreams
by Eminent Women
Accompany us for a lesson in design to be held
in the space over the plush vision which is
narrower at the bottom and level
with the edge of thought.
Source: A Lesson in Tapestry Painting by Emma Haywood, 1889.
Gallery of Dreams
Source: Highly Important Gallery of Pictures by Christie, Manson & Woods, 1892.
Source: Combination Paint by William Waterall Co., 1881.The Dream Stalls
Round and About the Dream-Stalls
Speculation about the contents of the stalls is a worthless ambition.
The "value" of a stall lies over the workaday threshold
into the realm of curiosity.
Source: Round and About the Book-Stalls. : A Guide for the Book-Hunter by John Herbert Slater and Benno Loewy, 1891.
Source: Part of a Man's Life by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1905.
Source: Forget-Me-Nots by Julia Kavanagh, 1878.
Source: American Journal of Nursing Publication, 1908-05.
Source: Mary and I go to Europe by H. Lyle Smith, 1898.
Source: American Journal of Nursing Publication, 1908-05.
Source: American Entomology by Thomas Say, 1859.This archival drawer holds completed work, scraps, rough edges, and ongoing mistakes.
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