Hashischin Dinner Party, 1909
“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked. “Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.” “How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice. “You must be,” said the Read More …
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Bananas, 1967
Banananananananana I thought I’d win the spelling bee And get right to the top, But I started to spell ” banana, “ And I didn’t know when to stop. by William Rossa Cole Ann Arbor Sun, April, 1967 Read More …
Piping Down the Valleys Wild, 1789
Piping Down the Valleys Wild Piping down the valleys wild Piping songs of pleasant glee On a cloud I saw a child. And he laughing said to me. Pipe a song about a Lamb; So I piped with merry chear, Read More …
Shakespeare the Stoner, 17th century
“Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes; Being vexed, a sea nourished with loving tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall, and a preserving Read More …
The Poor House, 1576
“This would be a great world to dance in if we didn’t have to pay the fiddler.” -Will Rogers Women picking oakum in the workhouse – 1906 “What was the poor made for but to work? – go to the Read More …
Chloroformic Visions, 1861
Chloroformic Visions Love the poetic writing in this article. They just don’t write the same anymore… “My last sane recollection is of the surgeon applying the handkerchief to my mouth” “So swift are the evolutions of thought Read More …
The Founding Growers: Part 1, George Washington: The Gentleman Grower, 1765
“Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. The checks he endeavors to give it, however warrantable by ancient usage, will, more than probably, kindle a flame, which may not be easily extinguished; tho’ for Read More …
Kashmir Nautch Smoking Hookah, 19th century
A Kashmir nautch girl with a hookah – Mortimer Menpes (1860-1938)
The English Patient, 1840
“The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.” – Queen Victoria Queen Victoria by RafkinsWarning The English Patient In the middle of the 19th century, Queen Victoria had very Read More …
Jamestown Weed, 1676
“If a man, after anointing his ligham with the mixture of the powders of the white thorn apple (Datura stramonium), the long pepper, the black pepper and honey, engages in sexual union with a woman, he makes her subject to Read More …