This is the one and only original manuscript of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. The Morgan Library and Museum displays Charles Dickens’s original manuscript of A Christmas Carol in Pierpont Morgan’s historic Library until January 13, 2013. Dickens wrote his iconic tale in a six-week flurry of activity, beginning in October 1843 and ending in time for Christmas publication. He had the manuscript bound in red morocco as a gift for his solicitor, Thomas Mitton. The manuscript then passed through several owners before Pierpont Morgan acquired it in the 1890s.
It reveals Dickens’s method of composition, allowing us to glimpse the author at work. he began writing the story in October 1843, completing it in only six weeks. His apparently contiguous pace of writing and revision was urgent but moldly confident. The interlinear revisions increase the story’s vividness: text is struck out with a continuous looping movement of the pen and replaced with more active verbs and fewer words to achieve greater concision. Dickens sent this manuscript to the printer in early December, and the book was published in time for the Christmas market. [The Morgan, 2012] (photo: yyz2nyc)
Mummiform Figure of Osiris
The inscription identifies this figure as Osiris. He wears the crown of ostrich feathers, a sun-disk, and the ram’s horns that identify him as a king. Yet he is also in the form of a mummy with the curled beard worn by the dead. The figure stands on a hollow base. Originally, a papyrus with a spell written on it was stored in the base. When this figure and papyrus were placed in the tomb, the deceased enjoyed the protection of Osiris and of the spell.
Medium: Wood, painted
Place Made: Egypt
Dates: 664-332 B.C.E.
Period: Late Period (probably)
Brooklyn Museum
Below the Asphalt Lies the Beach
There is still much to learn from the radical legacy of critical theory.
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“There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were explaining one’s idea for thirty-five years; there’s something left which cannot be induced to emerge from your brain, and remains with you forever…”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
John Smith on Imperialism in the 21st Century John Smith’s book on imperialism is a groundbreaking work revealing the super-exploitation of the global south. Daphna Whitmore from Redline interviewed him about his book.
Tiger Bay, Cardiff, 1950, Bert Hardy
The Nightmare (alternate version) by Fussli, 1802.
अनन्त का छंद – 7 प्रसन्न कुमार चौधरी घ. चेतन अस्तित्व सामान्य 96. अपने जीवनयापन के क्रम में मनुष्य निरन्तर अपनी समृति में डूबता-उतराता रहता है, अपने होने के अनेको अर्थ उलीचता जाता है, अपने को परिभाषित और पुनर्परिभाषित करने की ज़द्दोज़हद में उलझा पाता है । मैं नहीं जानता मैं क्या हूँ, मेरा मन भटकता फिरता है । ऋग्वेद के एक श्लोक का कुछ ऐसा ही भावार्थ है । स्मृति ही भौतिक जीवन के परस्पर विरोधी…
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The pandemic is not a war. The pandemic is a consequence of war. A war against life.
'Naitaavad enaa, paro anyad asti' (There is not merely this, but a transcendent other). Rgveda. X, 31.8.
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