Which would be embarrassing if I were out in the world, but instead I am indoors, reading for all eternity. So bring it on, Thom.
17 June 2012
On the proper kind of devastation
There is, in some Radiohead songs, a particular note that Thom Yorke hits. This note could disassemble and reassemble the universe. This note always--and always--brings me to the verge of tears.
06 June 2012
Coiffures through the ages.
Towards the end of the eleventh century, the archbiſhop of Rouen declared war againſt long hair.
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In the reign of Henry IV. the beard was ſhortened; it was worn only three fingers in length, in the ſhape of a fan, rounded and ſet off with two long, ſtiff whiſkers, in the manner of a cat's beard. Afterwards, one the two whiſkers were retained, with a little toupee of hair in the middle and quite round the under-lip.
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In the reign of Henry IV. the beard was ſhortened; it was worn only three fingers in length, in the ſhape of a fan, rounded and ſet off with two long, ſtiff whiſkers, in the manner of a cat's beard. Afterwards, one the two whiſkers were retained, with a little toupee of hair in the middle and quite round the under-lip.
--"French Faſhions and Dreſſes" The Town & Country Magazine; or, Universal Repository of Knowledge, Instruction, and Entertainment. January, 1769.
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