Abbess — Boris Kustodiev

“Masscult and Midcult” — Dwight Macdonald

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Read all of Dwight Macdonald’s essay “Masscult and Midcult” (1960).

Don Quixote Meets Merlin’s Ghost-Skeleton — Gustave Doré

A Monk — Filipp Malyavin

The Dream — Ferdinand Hodler

The Connection — Katharina Wulff

The Hermit — Gerrit Dou

Prometheus in Chains — Frantisek Kupka

Batman vs. Lord Death Man — Jiro Kuwata

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Woman at the Café — Antonio Donghi

(And Yet Another) Moby-Dick (Book Acquired, 4.18.2014)

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So I bought yet another copy of Moby-Dick, despite the many several editions already in our home.

I’d looked for an edition of the Barry Moser illustrated M-D for years—casually, in used book shops—but after a few (ahem) glasses of chardonnay, I bought one for next to nothing on eBay.

Moser’s etchings are superb, of course, and they most often illustrate the technical, scientific, or historical aspects of the novel. Great stuff.

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Interior — William Rothenstein

Bridgeman; (c) Museums Sheffield; Supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundation

Departure of the Prodigal Son — Alberto Savinio

Mark Twain, Walmart Greeter

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From Mike Mitchell’s Just Like Us series.

May Prinsep — George Frederick Watts