all flounce

To use words with them, or leave them just without…

introducing the 17 rooms theory

The New Pretty Village, from Lithographed Paper Toys, Books & Games 1880-1915, Judith Anderson Drawe & Kathleen Bridge Greenstein, Schiffer 2000.

I have been told that I am like a house with 17 rooms and that I retreat to these different rooms continually. I plan to make a paper house describing each of the spaces… and perhaps a navigational map for confused onlookers.

charm/curse

'For the bite of a sick dog or a serpent write these words round the bottom pf a vessel made of sycamore, and take clean water and delete that writing, and give [the water] to the bitten person to drink before he goeth to sleep.

+ zable + leo + fortis + decim + cephans + '

The Encyclopedia of Ephemera, Maurice Rickards, The British Library, 2000.

studies in indirect communication vol. x

The Bird Book : Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds, also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs, Chester A. Reed, Worcester Mass., 1914.

For textural consideration.

Look at the book on American Libraries, part of the Internet Archive.

Thank you to Paul for the tip via Stephen Fry in the Guardian magazine, 18.10.08.

variations of p, d & l

Various ways to label museum items. Handbook for Museum Curators: Museum Labels, F.J. North, The Museum's Association, 1957.

'The good label should be like the good secretary; always available but never unduly obtrusive.' p.22

paper absence

The House We Live In, published by Warne & Co., 1890.
The object of the book is to cut out and paste the objects in the appropriate scenes.

Been gone a while...

Must sort out:

Art versus life
Life versus work
Work versus art.