December 24
Category: gif
nastylittlenerd: ‘The electric street-lamp may indeed be…
‘The electric street-lamp may indeed be ignored, simply because it is so insignificant and transient. Fairy-stories, at any rate, have many more permanent and fundamental things to talk about.‘ (J.R.R. Tolkien in On Fairy-Stories)
‘In about ten minutes she reached it and found it was a lamp-post. As she stood looking at it, wondering why there was a lamp-post in the middle of a wood and wondering what to do next…’ (C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe)
aka ‘am I petty enough to write a lamp-post into my story just because my friend said it’s a ‘no-no’ in fantasy? Why yes, yes I am.’
smithsonianlibraries: Come see works from our natural history…
Come see works from our natural history rare book collection in the National Museum of Natural History. We’re celebrating the most diverse group of animals, insects, in our newest exhibition, Dazzling Diversity. It will be open through October 2018. Can’t make it? All of the books featured have been digitized and made available online in the @biodivlibrary Dazzling Diversity collection, with illustrations from each in this Flickr collection.
The animated ones above are from Papillons d’Europe, peints d’après nature, t.1 [Atlas] by J.J. Ernst.
More Butterflies!
