Dr Maddow + Library Humour = Give Me A Moment

tehhen:

Buttersafe » Giving a Presentation. Click through to see it larger. It will brighten your existence.

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http://mammaviraginis.tumblr.com/

feministhistorian:

gender-queer:

almondmilkandavocados:

dairymilkanddeepfriedmeat

chromosome-cisstraightperson

MensRightsActivistFictionWriter

WimpyMan’sPenis   (‘mamma viraginis’ is Latin for ‘the amazon’s breast’)

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“Comfort”, c.1815

Absolutely. 

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animalstalkinginallcaps:

BUT IS IT ART?

vintageanchor:

“Having to read footnotes resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.”
― Noël Coward

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“Hence it comes, that Excess of Admiration sometimes induceth a Stupor, or Astonishment… whereby a Man is held stiff, motionless, and senseless, as if he were turned into a statue. For it causeth that all the Animal Spirits in the brain are so vehemently imployed in contemplating and conserving the image of the object, that their usual influx… in other parts of the body is wholly intercepted, nor can they by any means be diverted: whereby all members of the body are held in a rigid posture, inflexible as those of a dead carcas, or of Man killed by Lightning… a memorable Example in a young Man of our Nation, who violently resenting a suddain and unexpected repulse in his love, and astonished thereat, became as it were congeal’d in the same posture, and continued rigid in his whole body till next day.” 

Walter Charleton, A Natural History of the Passions (London: 1701). sigs. G5v-G6r.

“MR. William Russel at the sign of the Four Coffins in Fleet-street near Fleet-Bridge, hath a secret to Preserve Dead Bodies, so that the Corps [sic] may be safely conveyed to any part of this Nation or elsewhere, he having had the Honour to be imployed by most Persons of Quality for some years past; And for the ready supply of those who live at a great distance, he hath Coffins reasy made rich or plain of a sort of Wood that will endure until the Body is fully dissolved, for want of such Coffins most Persons of Qualities Vaults are much annoyed. There also you may be fitted with Mourning for Rooms and all things fitting for a Funeral at reasonable Rates.” 

 The London Gazette, Issue 2035 (18 May 1685).