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LIBRARY SHELF: Freakery
Seltzer, Mark; Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body (1996) ICI Shelf: Body First Line: “People who are visually different have always provoked the imaginations of heir fellow human...
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LIBRARY SHELF: Special Cases
Purcell, Rosamond; Special Cases: Natural Anomalies and Historical Monsters (1997) ICI Shelf: Museums Last Line: “And Kircher with his mirrors: there are, he asserts, “a thousand ways to deform a man,”...
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LIBRARY SHELF: Chronicle of the Black Labyrith
Inabinet, Sam; Chronicle of the Black Labyrinth (1996) ICI Shelf: Paracelsus Last Line: “In such wise is the Balance maintained.” ICI History: Today at the ICI — Twitter Feed (10-31-14) Accession #:...
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LIBRARY SHELF: Message from Andrée
Koester, Joachim Message from Andrée FIRST LINE: “In Joachim Koester’s work images and words point at each other, they confer among themselves, and suggest different ways to go.” LAST LINE: “This is a...
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LIBRARY SHELF: Proust and the Sense of Time
Kristeva, Julia. Proust and the Sense of Time (1993) ICI Shelf: Current project FIRST LINE: “Marcel Proust (1871-1922) composed A la recherche du temps perdu between 1913 (the year of the publication...
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LIBRARY SHELF: Matter and Memory
Bergson, Henri. Matter and Memory (1988) ICI Shelf: Current project FIRST LINE: “We will assume for the moment that we know nothing of theories of matter and theories of spirit, nothing of the...
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LIBRARY SHELF: A Treasury of the Familiar
Wood, Ralph L.; A Treasury of the Familiar (1942) ICI Shelf: Trotter First Line: “Laugh and the world laughs with you, / Weep, and you weep alone.” Last Line: “As fits the holy Christmas Birth. / Be...
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LIBRARY SHELF: Schott’s Original Miscellany
Schott, Ben; Schott’s Original Miscellany (2003) ICI Shelf: Southwold First Line: “An encyclopedia?” Last Line: “finis” ICI History: First Line, Today at the ICI — Twitter Feed (07-02-15) Accession #:...
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LIBRARY SHELF: The Secret Teachings of All Ages
Hall, Manley P.; The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic, and Rosicrucian Philosophy (1988 (first published 1928)) ICI Shelf: Oversize B First Line:...
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LIBRARY SHELF: Palmistry
Levine, Roz; Palmistry: How to Chart the Lines of Your Destiny (1992) ICI Shelf: Religion First Line: “Your unique and individual character is mirrored on your hands.” Last Line: “I hope you have...
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LIBRARY SHELF: Art as Experience
Dewey, John; Art as Experience (1980) ICI Shelf: Art Texts First Line: “By one of the ironic perversities that often attend the course of affairs, the existence of the works of art upon which formation...
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LIBRARY SHELF: The Curious History of Music Boxes
Mosoriak, Roy The Curious History of Music Boxes (1943) ICI Shelf: Dante First Line: “The music box was the first automatic musical instrument of wide use.” Last Line: “If the owner of a repaired music...
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LIBRARY SHELF: Successful Photography
Feininger, Andreas; Successful Photography (1954) ICI Shelf: Dante First Line: “This book was written to teach you “photography.” Last Line: “Call a physician!” ICI History: First Line, Today at the...
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LIBRARY SHELF: Interface
Gilot, Françoise; Interface: The Painter and the Mask (1983) ICI Shelf: Galt First Line: “The painter gazes; the painting is his mask.” Last Line: “Ou Tao Tseu never returned.” ICI History: First Line,...
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LIBRARY SHELF: Little Dorrit
Dickens, Charles; The Works of Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit (1873) ICI Shelf: Galt First Line: “Thirty years ago, Marseilles lay burning in the sun, one day.” Last Line: “They went quietly down into...
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LIBRARY SHELF: How to Make and Use a Magic Mirror
Tyson, Donald; How to Make and Use a Magic Mirror: Psychic Windows Into New Worlds (1990) ICI Shelf: Austerlitz FIRST LINE: “All mirrors are magical.” LAST LINE: “They can also be selected from the...
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LIBRARY SHELF: The Laws of Health
Hutchinson; The Laws of Health ICI Shelf: Hippocrates FIRST LINE: “The bones – The human body is the house in which the soul of the man dwells during life.” LAST LINE: “Vocal Cords – Two elastic bands...
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LIBRARY SHELF: Struggles and Triumphs
Barnum, P.T.; Struggles and Triumphs/ The Life of P.T. Barnum, Written by Himself (1927) ICI Shelf: Trotter FIRST LINE: “I now come to a series of events which, all things considered, constitutes one...
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LIBRARY SHELF: The Letters of Virginia Woolf
Nicolson, Nigel; The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume One 1888-1912 (1975) ICI Shelf: Austerlitz FIRST LINE: “This is a spontaneous production of Miss Stephen, on seeing a picture of the Adirondacks...
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LIBRARY SHELF: Fire Next Time
Baldwin, James The Fire Next Time (1963) ICI Shelf: Austerlitz FIRST LINE: “Dear James: I have begun this letter five times and torn it up five times” LAST LINE: “God gave Noah the Rainbow sign, No...
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