Scorsese: my friendship with Michael Powell | Marty, Michael and the splendour of The Red Shoes.
An exploration of seminal novelist Italo Calvino, through his writing
An exploration of seminal novelist Italo Calvino, through his writing | Jeanette Winterson on the Italian master.
‘Hallucination’ fish netted in English Channel
‘Hallucination’ fish netted in English Channel | Mediterranean Sarpa salpa, said to cause LSD-like effects, turns up off Cornwall.
Demon rum leads to heroin
Or the temptations of Uncle Sam… An editorial cartoon from 1919 by Oliver Herford (1863–1935) showing how the nonsense argument of “X leads to Y” goes back a long way. These imps are more silly than frightening, Herford should have used this as the starting point for a comic strip: Rum Demon and the Narcotics.
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