[Friday, February 22, 2008]
I have periodically posted illustrations that kindle in me a genuine nostalgia, for both my own childhood, as well as for the decades before I was born. This illustration by Edward Gorey for John Bellairs’ The House with a Clock in Its Walls is perhaps the Gorey contribution that most haunts my recollections of […]
[hunting for hidden gold]
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[Tuesday, October 16, 2007]
I can’t get over how well-executed this Hardy Boys illustration is, from what was one of my favorite books from the series, Hunting for Hidden Gold. (A reproduction of this image currently hangs on my living room wall.) I love the way the cave forms the irregular frame, the way we peer […]
[hunting for hidden gold]
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[Monday, October 8, 2007]
“A freak sandstorm in Egypt has uncovered the top of the Great Pyramid of RA the Sun-God. Already dozens of explorers, singly and in teams, have entered the pyramid through the door at the very top. None have ever returned. You, a lowly undergraduate student in Archaeology, have decided to enter the pyramid on your […]
[emblems, diagrams, indexicals], [hunting for hidden gold]
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[Tuesday, September 25, 2007]
[from the Boy Scout Handbook, Seventh Edition, 1965]
[hunting for hidden gold]
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