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nevver:

  1. Omphaloskepsis: meditation while gazing at one’s navel.
  2. Pickedevant: a Van Dyke beard.
  3. Malneirophrenia: depression following a nightmare.
  4. Lissotrichous: having straight hair.
  5. Junkettaceous: frivolous, worthless.
  6. Sinciput: the forehead.
  7. Whigmaleery: a knickknack or a geegaw; a whim.
  8. Cuggermugger: whispered gossiping.
  9. Goubemouche: a gullible person (literally, one who swallows flies).
  10. Kakkorhaphiophobia: fear of failure.
  11. Nibby-jibby: narrow margin; a close call.
  12. Anaphalantiasis: the falling out of the eyebrows.
  13. Quakebuttock: a coward.
  14. Humdudgeon: an imaginary illness or pain; a loud complaint about nothing.
  15. Floccinaucinihilipilification: the categorizing of something as worthless trivia.

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liquidnight:

Sarah Moon
Yaël Raich, 1993
From Coïncidences

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liquidnight:

Sarah Moon

Yaël Raich, 1993

From Coïncidences

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yama-bato:

Mario Avati
Le Grand Paon
Michael Lisi / Contemporary Art
date1975
medium  mezzotint 
edition size10
sheet size17 x 20 ½ inches

yama-bato:

Mario Avati

Le Grand Paon

date
1975

medium mezzotint

edition size
10

sheet size
17 x 20 ½ inches

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jugtownradio:

DAVE FLETCHER (center) & FRIENDS

jugtownradio:

DAVE FLETCHER (center) & FRIENDS

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yama-bato:


Lee Miller
Paris in the snow, January 1945

yama-bato:

Lee Miller
Paris in the snow, January 1945
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burnedshoes:

© Thomas Hoepker, 1954, Old woman in a snowstorm, Hamburg
“Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person.” (Sylvia Plath)
» find more of Magnum Photos here «

burnedshoes:

© Thomas Hoepker, 1954, Old woman in a snowstorm, Hamburg

“Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person.” (Sylvia Plath)

» find more of Magnum Photos here «

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