Lions and clowns and elephants, oh my! The Discovery Museum brings us some kinda-creepy, definitely cool photos of old English carnivals. Get that old-timey fairground feeling here.
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Curiouser and Curiouser
"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?"
147Explosions in the Sky: Yasmin the Light
This great evil - where’s it come from?
How’d it steal into the world?
What seed, what root did it grow from?
Who’s doing this?
Who’s killing us, robbing us of life and light, mocking us with the sight of what we mighta known?
Does our ruin benefit the earth, does it help the grass to grow or the sun to shine?
Is this darkness in you, too?
Have you passed through this night?
..and I always get confused,
because in supermarkets they turn the lights off when they want you to leave,
but in discos they turn them on.
and it’s always sad to go, but it’s never that sad,
because there’s only so many places you’re guaranteed of getting a hug when you leave.
and then on the way home, it always seems like a good idea to go paddling in the fountain, and that’s because it IS a good idea.
and were just like, how rousseau depicts man in the state of nature:
we’re undeveloped, we’re ignorant, we’re stupid, but we’re happy.
On this date in 1543, Mary was crowned Queen of Scots. She was nine months old.
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nobody can be uncheered by a balloon
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how lovely you are
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