“Diabolical illusion or divine prediction…”
Michelangelo Buonarroti as quoted by James H. Beck in The Three Worlds of Michelangelo

Found in the collection. Liking the casual stride and filled-in caps.

Violet wasn’t wearing her wig.
The Black Honeymoon

(they had requested gifts to help restore their 100-year-old farmhouse.)

With a ballpoint.

The handwriting of my high school history teacher, Mr. Beebe.

Avid fisherman, bird enthusiast, baseball player, coach, life guard, soldier, great war historian, Rupert Brooke aficionado, Mr. Chips successor, gentleman, Paul Robeson fan, organizer extraordinaire, quoter of Latin, humorist, collector, faithful correspondent, lifelong student, unusual individual, nice guy.

Immediately impressed with the emotive handwritten typography on the cover of this old paperback.

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