The horror of childbirth from the Malagasy epic Ibona.
Jacket
John Galliano
Spring/Summer 1993
The MET
“Sorry, sir, but this hotel is full; nothing left but the roof. You should have engaged accommodations in advance.”
“While in Berkshire I saw an odd picture, not of a castle, but of an old English gentleman’s residence, which was truly castle-like in appearance, and which furnishes a happy suggestion to people who do not like to live long in any one place. It was a tun on wheels, and it had been used by an over-taxed and indignant democrat for the purpose of having no fixed locality, and so to avoid assessment.” Zigzag Journeys in Europe by Hezekiah Butterworth, 1880s.
Lifter Bigge, square-jawed space smuggler, with silly sidekick Papillion Ball, is pursued to the edge of the universe by gentleman space mystic Jasper Blithman of the Inner-Temple.
From 18th century court documents.
Interesting that in 1747 it was known that dental problems were caused by tiny creatures/animalcules/germs.
John Wesley condemning jargon and technical language as deliberately elitist, c. 1747.
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