unholy and rotten

Copyright 1948. "The Mirror of Magic: A History of Magic in the Western World"

Purchased at Uncommon Objects in Austin, TX.

Asking price $175. Paid $100. So worth it.

Picked up a stack of books and saw this looking up at me:

Turned it over to see this:

opened it to find this: funny because on the way to Texas, Matt was reading some of Einstein's writings from his later years where he's trying suggest harmony between a christian existence and a science based one, basically doing a 180 from his earlier ideals (and i'm really fond some of those ideals). another case of getting old and blowing it.

this one might explain a period in my personal history:

also picked up some photos of a camera shop that i want to blow up to hang next to my old camera collection:

couldn't pass this one up either: