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Odilon Redon, Wildflowers in a Long Neck Vase, c. 1912 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135089

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Visual development art by Tadahiro Uesugi for Coraline (2009), dir. Henry Selick, Laika

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Elizabeth Cotten, folk/blues music pioneer, was born on this day in 1895. She taught herself to play the guitar and banjo as a child. She was left-handed but she played a guitar for a right-hander, meaning she played everything upside down. A little thread!

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π‘…π‘Žπ‘šπ‘œπ‘›π‘’π‘ , 𝐢𝐡𝐺𝐡, π΄π‘π‘Ÿπ‘–π‘™ 10𝑑𝒉, 1979. πŸ“ΈBob Gruen

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β€œIt seems to me that I have wanted to write for the whole of my life. The intensity of this insistence, despite its implausibility, suggests an emotional, rather than literal, accuracy. I think my life didn’t seem my life until I started to write,” Louise GlΓΌck writes.

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Francis Kurkdjian has created a host of beloved perfumes, including Baccarat Rouge 540; a re-creation of Marie Antoinette’s signature scent for the Palace of Versailles; and a fragrance meant to evoke an old dollar bill, with the artist Sophie Calle.

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Walter Richard Sickert, Miss Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies as Isabella of France, 1932 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1113643

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Confession time. I started my 12yo on the gateway drugs of Harry Chapin and Jim Croche, and that has led to exploratory Gordon Lightfoot and just now, a sniff of Stan Rogers. I tried to stop it, but I'm a heavy Sea Shanty user myself, and addiction runs in families.

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