celestial boners

maudnewton: yama-bato: Jorge Luis BORGES (Argentinian, 1899 - 1986) Self-portrait. ink on paper 8 3/4 x 6 inches (225 x 150 mm) http://ny.bloomsburyauctions.com/detail/NY034/61.0 When he drew this, because Burt Britton asked him to, Borges was blind. Weirdly, Cormac McCarthy also did a self-portrait for Britton. Other writers in the collection: Joan Didion, Edward Gorey, Roald Dahl, Margaret Atwood, Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, Maurice Sendak, John Updike, and Tom Wolfe.

maudnewton:

yama-bato:

Jorge Luis BORGES (Argentinian, 1899 - 1986) Self-portrait. ink on paper
8 3/4 x 6 inches (225 x 150 mm)

http://ny.bloomsburyauctions.com/detail/NY034/61.0

When he drew this, because Burt Britton asked him to, Borges was blind.

Weirdly, Cormac McCarthy also did a self-portrait for Britton. Other writers in the collection: Joan Didion, Edward Gorey, Roald Dahl, Margaret Atwood, Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, Maurice Sendak, John Updike, and Tom Wolfe.

Reblogged 2 years ago from 50watts (Originally from yama-bato) 230 notes
from cataloging a bunch of old theater scrapbooks at work ive come to the conclusion that the mid-late 1920s was just one giant exploding boner of a decade, until the 1930s came and i guess the great boner depression happened and we haven’t recovered since. View Larger

from cataloging a bunch of old theater scrapbooks at work ive come to the conclusion that the mid-late 1920s was just one giant exploding boner of a decade, until the 1930s came and i guess the great boner depression happened and we haven’t recovered since.

Posted 2 years ago