There's no hurry here, Doctor. This is a landscape without time.

hyperweather

"Ah, madame, I have often wondered what jewel I would offer you worthy of your incomparable beauty… and now, quite suddenly, I know."
He deftly extracts a tiny blue-ringed octopus from a cigarette-case tank and places it around her horrified neck. The octopus lights up and glows bright blue, a blue that spreads to her face as she weaves in her chair and topples face down in the Baked Alaska.

burroughs / western lands / 127

nonsuch / nonpareil

Nonsuch Palace c1560 Joris Hoefnagel

There you are in your beautiful villa, straight out of Disneyland, on a clear blue lake that drains away, while you sit, with a last derisive gurgle…


A dangerous road. Every pitfall, every error, every snare to which Everyman has been liable since the beginning, you are sure to meet on the road to the Western Lands…

laws against images

Two curious documents concerning the office in the first
reign are known. One is a draft proclamation assigned to
the year 1563, to forbid all painters and gravers from
drawing the picture of the Queen, till some cunning
person meet therefor shall make a natural representation
of her Majesty's person as a pattern lor other
persons to copy. 3 The other is a licence granted to

' our welbeloved subjecte George Gower our Sargeant Paynter
. . . we do give & graunte. . the full sole & lawfull
priviledge . . that he shall by himself his deputy & deputies
assignee & assignees only, & none other . . . from henceforth
. . . make or cause to be made all & all maner of purtraictes
& pictures of our person ... in oyle cullers upon bourdes or
canvas or to grave the same on copper . . . [for his life we
appoint] George Gower our officer, maker, paynter, ... & doe
strictly forbydd & prohibit ... all & every other persone or
persons whatsoever, Englishmen or straingers
... to entermeddle with the making, painting,
or pryntinge . . . excepting only one, Nichas Hilliard. . . .' 4

Portrait of Perceval Hart as child, in fawn costume

Lot 12 - Sotheby's, London (May 22, 1968)

Old Master Paintings

$ 2,520 USD
£ 1,050 GBP

Original Currency of Sale: £ 1,050 GBP Hammer

Robert Peake the Elder (British, Circa1551 - 1619)

Portrait of Perceval Hart as child, in fawn costume

MEASUREMENTS: 40.00 in. (101.60 cm.) (height) by 26.00 in. (66.04 cm.) (width)

DESCRIPTION: i.d.1602

MARKINGS: dated, inscribed

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The fifty-first generation of Maas-Neotek biochips conjured up an indistinct figure on the seat beside her, a boy out of some faded hunting print, legs crossed casually in tan breeches and riding boots.

Mona Lisa Overdrive - William Gibson p9

extended through time

supply lines

CAB /24/ 139

Report on Revolutionary organizations in the UK / Special Branch / Oct 5^th 1922

Communists were also instructed that in the event of war they were on no account to take up a hostile attitude or one of pacifism, but to carry propaganda in the Army and if necessary, fire in the air.

There has been some propaganda in favour of obstructing the transport of troops and of war material, but the result has, so far, been negligible.

On September 26^th the Poplar Unemployed passed a resolution to picket all ships in the east India dock which were being used for transport of ammunition to the Near East