To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself... Anybody can have ideas, the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph. -- Mark Twain
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
This is Creepy
A few idle pecks on the computer, and I found myself looking at this:
This is one of several photos from an article about the "Strangest Tradition" of the Victorian era: postmortem photography. You can read the whole thing here, if you're so inclined.
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