May 2012
188 posts
Programming Notes
I have quite a few entries of interesting things I found while fulfilling requests queued up now, so I think for the time being this will be it. However, I generally always welcome requests if there is something you really really want to see. And to the person who requests Mengele - I will do that once I gather up a bit more for a day’s worth of entries sometime this week. Thank you to everyone who submitted entries - they were spectacular!
Also, just for a bit of housekeeping: I recently started a blog of lovely things that inspire me. It’s mainly historical stuff, vintage illustration, 19th and 20th century art, etc. It will be occasionally nsfw (cabaret, vintage erotica and the like may pop up). If interested here it is:
And my art blog is here (also occasionally nsfw):
“René Hemery, an officer with the 48th French Infantry Regiment, was in St. Dizier on the Marne that day when the Armistice was finally signed a little North in Compiegne. In St. Dizier, as elsewhere in the victor nations, the churchbells pealed and the streets filled with singing and dancing crowds. But Hemery, like most veterans, found it difficult to indulge in any form of celebration, and as dusk fell, he walked in search of better air toward the edge of town, where stood a small cemetery. As he approached the burial ground he heard sobbing. He moved closer. And finally he could see figures. One was a little boy playing with a flag, a Tricolor. The other was a woman, on her knees, forehead on the ground, overcome with grief. Clutching his ‘emblem of glory,’ as Hemery described the flag in his diary, the child suddenly shouted, ‘Papa, c’est la Victoire!’”
—Modris Eksteins, Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age. (via the-seed-of-europe)
