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#left! #1830s #polls #the ideal male body

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36 chapters into moby dick. some thoughts:

- take a shot every time he expresses his love for nantucket or whaling trivia

- i know everyone said it was queer and usually i've come to expect that as hyperbole but this time they weren't joking

- CHILDE HAROLD REFERENCE?!?!?!?!?! BYRON QUOTED?!?!?!?! not surprised bc it is the romantic genre which byron & chp helped inspire & he was the best selling writer in early 19c usa & is noted for his oceanic refs & he & esp childe harolds pilgrimage esp are both noted on wikipedia's "nautical fiction" page but like. i had no idea they were immortalized in moby dick

- "Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian." AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

- does gay cannibal tumblr know about queequeg & ishmael?

- utterly obsessed with captain ahab for numerous reasons but does anyone else notice how similar he is to captain flint from black sails? like he's literally him but a bit older & combined with silver's leglessness.

- the part where ahab calls stubb a dog lmao

- ishmael getting worried for queequeg when he couldn't find him omg...

- "Where's that girl ? — there, Betty, go to Snarles the Painter, and tell him to paint me a sign, with — 'no suicides permitted here, and no smoking in the parlor;' — might as well kill both birds at once." MRS. HUSSEY!!!!

- i'm sure that all the focus on queequegs spirituality & his consultation with his god yojo wherein he was informed that ishmael had to pick their boat bc yojo demaded it TOTALLY won't prove to have any prophetic and symbolic consequences later on or anything

- love how the chapters are nice and short but on the flip side that means theyre tricking me into thinking i have less to go than i actually do... as long as i get more ahab i'm good i guess

-melville, at random: and now we take a break from our regularly schedule programming to give you . . . WHALE FACTS! [whips out multiple books on the history of whales and whaling, begins to recite]

#moby dick #gay cannibal tumblr #why is this so many of my mutuals

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Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain

_lukasrichter

#the sea

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We had a special breakfast today aboard the museum ship Col. James M. Schoonmaker, a Great Lakes freighter built in 1911 and once known as “Queen of the Lakes,” as the largest ship operating on the Great Lakes until April 14, 1914. She now lives on the Maumee River with museum tug Ohio.

#maumee river #toledo #ohio #national museum of the great lakes #age of steam #maritime history #she was also pretty wet and slippery today #i could have explored more but will take the tour later #great lakes #shaun talks

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Therefore, we must cut away two things--fear of the future and memory of past unpleasantness; the latter no longer pertains to me, the former not yet. Circumcidenda ergo duo sunt, et futuri timor et veteris incommodi memoria; hoc ad me iam non pertinet, illud nondum. --Seneca the Younger, Epistles 78.14

#quotes

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THREE dabloons!

#aboard the museum ship col. james m. schoonmaker

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James Hall’s 1843 “Geological map of the Middle and Western states” although not what people in the US would call the western states now…

by @HarvardMapColl

#maps #1840s #no no this is still the old northwest to me #great lakes

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Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries:

"It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones.

"There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion.

"If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the 'medicine closet' and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That's why you should always have a nutrition choice!

"Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity."

#books #the concept of having books on hand as medicine that might be needed! #the right book for that moment! #mind-expanding thoughts (and my home library keeps expanding)

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I think everyone should know about the Alternate Dimension of polar explorer portraits at the National Galleries of Scotland: all of them slightly different or unique images of familiar names.

William Edward Parry—in a top hat??

Weirdly stiff naive-style John Ross!

Weirdly sexy wild eyebrows John Ross!

Why haven't we seen fur boa McClintock before?

#polar #arctic exploration #william edward parry #john ross #francis leopold mcclintock #SOOOO many john rosses #the auld yin runs this museum #art #19th century #arctic

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1655 Paulus Hennekyn - Portrait of a young Man

(Ashmolean Museum)

#17th century #fashion #art

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I do! Especially since both outfits have appeared on this blog (nothing says Romantic like some ye olde clothes).

#1830s #fashion history #polls

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I wonder if Paul Gavarni a.k.a. Guillaume Chevallier ever regretted his youthful pseudonym of "Hippolyte." Some of his earliest works from the 1820s were signed H.G. or H. Chevallier. (See his biography by Octave Uzanne).

From now until the end of time, Gavarni bio-blurbs on the Internet, and even the Paris Musées collection, run on the assumption that Hippolyte was his Real Name and not yet another alias. "Paul Gavarni, born Hippolyte Sulpice Abracadabra Champs-Élysées Paul Chevalier Guillaume Chevallier, was a French artist of the 19th century."

#paul gavarni #sulpice was his father's name and isn't on gavarni's tombstone #stop calling him sulpice!! #'paul' is also controversial #the uzanne biography is in english translation and very good btw

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Grace Darling and her Father rescuing Survivors from the Wreck of the “Forfarshire” on the Farne Islands, Sep. 7th, 1838, by Charlies Achille D’Hardiviller, 1838

#1830s #the sea #art #grace darling

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Paul Gavarni, L'Artiste: Far-Niente ("the artist doing nothing"), 1835.

#paul gavarni #Eighteen-Thirties Thursday #1830s #men's fashion #romantic era #1835 #interiors #gavarni and his super-detailed scenes <3 #get a load of this guy's headwrap #romanticism

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do you think old man yaoi can blossom even on a battlefield

Yes. More than anywhere else

#henry procter/james winchester

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Elite, mostly male, thinkers remained convinced that men should be paid more than women, and the government passed the 1834 new Poor Law on that assumption:

It is clearly a waste of strength, a superfluous extravagance, (an economic blunder) to employ a powerful and costly machine to do work which can be as well done by a feebler and a cheaper one. Women and girls are less costly operatives than men . . . what they can do with equal efficiency it is therefore wasteful and foolish, economically considered, to set a man to do. By employing the cheaper labour, the article is supplied to the public at a smaller cost and therefore the demand for the article is increased.

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory

#1830s #poor law #since i am always being forced to learn about 1830s british politics

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For #AudubonDay + #InternationalFlamingoDay:

Robert Havell Jr. (engraver) after John James Audubon (artist) American Flamingo, 1838: The Birds of America, Plate 431 hand-colored engraving and aquatint on Whatman wove paper image: 87.63 × 58.58 cm (34 1/2 × 23 1/16 in.) plate: 97 x 65 cm (38 3/16 x 25 9/16 in.) sheet: 101.3 x 68.3 cm (39 7/8 x 26 7/8 in.) National Gallery of Art DC collection (1945.8.431)

Audubon insisted on illustrating every bird in The Birds of America life-size, including this one, but even using the largest paper available (the "double elephant folio") he still had to cheat the pose a bit to make it fit, swooping the neck down in a U-shape.

#1830s #birds #john james audubon #scientific illustration #illustration #books