LiberalDespot

Cat and its human.
Morrison Street.
March 2022.

I'd love to find them so I can send them this pic.
Anyone know them?

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Narnia under the rule of Jadis...

Or maybe Kelvingrove Museum on a cold day in March 2022.

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Do you dare go up....

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Imperial Edinburgh. Allegorical figures of Manufacture and Architecture on the parapet of David Bryce's 1846 British Linen Bank - sculptures by Alexander Handyside Ritchie.
Now a hotel.

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Chimneypots, like candles, cluster around Broughton St Marys Parish Church.

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Allegorical figure on the former Library and Post Office (now the Women's Library) Bridgeton. I suspect he is the West Wind, bringer of Trade.

[J.R Rhind, 1903]

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St Petersburg...

Bridgeton Cross Mansions.
John Cunningham, 1896.

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Two studies in urban depth.

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iconic ionic

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Desperastation.

The shadow of the past.
Merchant City, Glasgow.

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Mercat.

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Alien Observation Post.
Alexandra Parade.

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He is endlessly quotable, I added a few small examples in a thread under my own anniversary post: bsky.app/profile/drui...

"Plagiarism, or plowing with others Heifers."

I knew you'd be triggered...

@glasgowbell.bsky.social have made the non-paywalled.
Give it a read.

Iohannes Scotus Erigena, when he was in Greece, did go to an Oracle to enquire for a Treatise of Aristotle, and found it. He lived before the Conquest, and taught Greek at the Abby in Malmsbury, where his Scholars stabbed him with their Pen-knives for his Severity to them.

To Cure a Thrush.

Take a living Frog, and hold it in a Cloth, that it does not go down into the Childs Mouth; and put the Head into the Childs Mouth till it is dead; and then take another Frog.

Arise Evans had a fungous Nose, and said, it was reveal'd to him, that the King's Hand would Cure him: And at the first coming of King Charles II. into St. Iames's Park he Kiss'd the King's Hand, and rubb'd his Nose with it; which disturb'd the King, but Cured him.

Lancelot Morehouse in time of the Civil Wars, rescued a sheet of Parchment in Quarto from a Taylor's Sheers. It was part of a Book, and was a Prophecy concerning England in Latin Hexameters; I saw it 1649. It pointed at our late Troubles: He gave it to Seth Ward, Bp of Salisbury, and is lost.

Katherine's Parrots.

Mr. Trehern B. D. (Chaplain to Sir Orlando Bridgman Lord Keeper) a Learned and sober Person, was the Son of a Shoe-maker in Hereford: One Night as he lay in Bed he saw a Basket come Sailing in the Air along by the Valence of his Bed; I think he said there was Fruit in the Basket: It was a Phantome.

"Plagiarism, or plowing with others Heifers."

I sometimes think I am a reincarnation.

"Anno. 1670, not far from Cyrencester, was an Apparition: Being demanded, whether a good Spirit, or a bad? returned no answer, but disappeared with a curious Perfume and most melodious Twang. Mr. W. Lilly believes it was a Fairie."

...and if you want a longer example, here is Thomas Hobbes.

druidic.org/aubrey-hobbe...

In recognition of the wonderful maggotty-headed John Aubrey being 400 today, here are a few of his Brief Lives - sat on my old website these last 25 years at least - incomparable glimpses of the 16 and 17th centuries.

druidic.org/brief-lives....

The magnificent nose and periwig of Camillo de Vecchi, Knight of St Stephen and Prior of the City. His monument is high on the wall of the chancel of San Martino, and records that at the age of 73 he paid for the new high altar in 1706.

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Knocker.

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Twilight Dragon.

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