lest we forget

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Pair of British paratroopers walking through smoking rubble of Gessapolini during the drive through Italy. Photograph by George Rodger. Gessapolini, Italy, 1944.
Most people have heard of Koko, the Stanford-educated gorilla who could speak about 1000 words in American Sign Language, and understand about 2000 in English. What most people don’t know, however, is that Koko was an avid Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood fan. As Esquire reported, when Fred Rogers took a trip out to meet Koko for his show, not only did she immediately wrap her arms around him and embrace him, she did what she’d always seen him do onscreen: she proceeded to take his shoes off!
MWP Faulkner Gallery: Faulkner in Paris, 1925
William Faulkner in Paris, 1925
authentic fauxhemian
I always have a curious sort of feeling about some of my things – I hate to show them – I am perfectly inconsistent about it – I am afraid people won’t understand – and I hope they won’t – and am afraid they will. ~ Georgia O’Keeffe