Weakness

Source

Ian Lee: The Third Word War. Thames and Hudson. 1973.

The sex mirror

I can't imagine why the English call condoms french letters, while the French call condoms capote anglais... Who do we see when we look into the mirror? 

Sauce

Anonymous

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Voltaire

                 

It is said that, on his deathbed, Voltaire was approached by an anxious priest who urgently told him, "Renounce the devil."

Voltaire replied, "Now is not the time to be making enemies."   

                                                                                                                                               

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metmuseum.org                                                 

Trompe L'oeil

Trompe L'oeil, or the art of deception, has a long history.  It is taken to absurd levels in this example from Paris.

         
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Mickey Mouse

1933   Mickey Mouse banned in Nazi Germany.

1936   Mickey Mouse banned in the Soviet Union.

1937   A Mickey Mouse comic strip banned in Yugoslavia because it depicted a revolution against a monarchy.

1938    Mickey Mouse banned in Fascist Italy.

1954    Mickey Mouse banned in East Germany as an anti-Red rebel.

Source:  Robert Hendrickson:  The Literary Life and Other Curiosities {Penguin Books, 1981}

                                          
                                          Mickey Mouse on Hollywood's Walk of Fame   

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R o a d

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Photo by will 

Another paradox

EVEN A HERETIC MUST BELIEVE IN SOMETHING 

IF NOTHING MORE

THAN THE TRUTH OF HIS OWN DOUBT 

                                                         -  Barack Obama

    
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candacesalima.blogspot.com