From Les Miserables (1972). Bernard Fresson is my favorite Javert now together with Philip Quast.
The squirrels!
woah
Photographs, by Melinda, of the China Danxia, a unique landform between the Guizhou and Zhejiang Provinces in China. Via Double Takes
Anticlinal, sinclinal.
moon phases
i’m a sucker for anything with the phases of the moon on it
(Source: galleart)
Sargasso Sea
The alchemist who has achieved illumination.
from Andrea de Pascalis, Alchemy: The Golden Art.
(Source: copticlight)
1934
Maiden Castle Dorset: Section and Plan of Cutting ‘A’ Across Original Western Defences, scale of I inch to 4 feet (2.5 cm to 1.2 m)
Charles Drew and Mortimer Wheeler
Pencil on graph paper, 57.2 x 97.5 cm
Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society at the Dorset County Museum, Dorchester, 1939·55·28.2.A2
Selected references: Wedlake 1934; Wheeler 1943; Wedlake 1975A; Wedlake 1975B
The survey of Maiden Castle, undertaken by Huntly Gordon with his theodolite, was the first comprehensive survey of the large earthworks of the site… … The heroic figure with a spade captures the moment in one of the first section drawings of modern excavation practice.
Making history: antiquaries in Britain, 1707-2007, McCarthy, S. Nurse, B. 2007
(Source: theshinysquirrel)
“The ‘dangerous’ aspect of Les Misérables is almost as evident today as it was in 1862. If a single idea can be extracted from the whole it is that persistent criminals are a product of the criminal justice system, a human and therefore monstrous creation; that the burden of guilt lies with society and that the rational reform of institutions should take precedence over the punishment of individuals.”
— Graham Robb’s biography of Hugo, once again being flawless (via hernaniste)
