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I have a couple of weird old books but I'm going to focus on this one because it's my oldest and coolest book. It's a marriage and family manual from the 1870s that is absolutely filled with content on how to... well, I'll let the title speak for itself. (These images will probably be super huge, sorry.)   It's really faded but the pages have a really pretty colorful design on their edges. The book is over 1000 pages long and it would be impossible for me to take pictures of all of the bizarrely racist and unscientific content. However, it does have an index in which every page is broken down by topic, and if anybody wants to see more of it I can take photos of the index and let people choose which ones they might like to see. Here's some excerpts:  Our prestigious author, Professor O.S. Fowler. In 1870s style, the book's leading page is a portrait of the man who made a ton of poo poo up.  This book features a broad range of courtship, sex, marriage and child rearing, but focuses almost to excess on specific topics: erectile dysfunction and, especially, tits. There are several distinct sections talking about boobs, why men like boobs, why men like big boobs and why big tits suggest a woman's fitness and marriageability, and how a husband can grow his wife's tits to be more "full and robust."   This appears to be a second edition printing from 1875, as best as I can tell. The book features a pretty large number of illustrations.  This book explains heredity in detail. For example,   Half-black children are basically animal-human hybrids:  Some examples of the different types of physical manhood:    Like I said, this is just a little taste of it, since this book is absolutely massive and every page is pretty much like this. There's more incorrect information regarding basically anything related to sexuality than there is correct info, although there are some things that are closer to the truth as we know it today than I would have expected from a book this old. If somebody wants to see more I can post the index and someone can pick a topic.
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The table of contents describes every single one of the nearly 1100 pages and thus is itself 20 pages long, so I've just assembled it into a gallery, but I'll post the first couple pages here so you can get a taste of what's available: Gallery: https://imgur.com/gallery/fhdq2     It's hard to choose any specific thing so I'll take suggestions and see if it's worth posting. All I have is a camera phone with a flash so I'm limited in how much I can post.
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Jan 6, 2018 04:41
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Here's the twelve legged horse. I have no loving idea what he's referring to.
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Jan 6, 2018 04:57
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David Gonterman absolutely disproves the 10,000 hour rule because he has been drawing every single day of his life for literally decades and has not gotten even a little bit better.
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Apr 20, 2018 18:12
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It must have been cool to make a living painting vaguely erotic thriller covers all day
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Apr 26, 2018 08:10
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The Kins posted:If the covers were anything like the writing in these pulp stories, they were probably dashed out really quickly and en-masse through a bourbon haze, possibly to meet really strict deadlines, to scrape up something resembling a living. I figured it was probably more like just sitting down and making a bunch at once and then when someone calls for a cover you just send them one that kinda fits. "We need a Dame with her slip fallin' off bein' menaced by a guy in a white suit, try to work in a film camera, can ya whip something up?" and you just pull out one of the ten drawings of that exact scene and send it in
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May 3, 2018 03:33
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Are you just using a flatbed scanner to get these photos? Edit: how does someone with a name like "Matriciana" claim England as their "motherland" Heath fucked around with this message at 23:01 on Oct 21, 2019 |
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Oct 21, 2019 22:56
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sniffing, 20
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Oct 23, 2019 16:56
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I picked up an old book of erotica from the 60s that features a collection of surviving erotic drawings and paintings, mostly from European artists, but also some from Asia and the Middle East. There's some wild and fascinating stuff, ranging from a whole lot of women loving demons and devils, surrealist pieces composed entirely of dicks and boobs, time-lapsed pictures of the same woman masturbating in different poses, straight up bestiality, Japanese woodblock erotica, threesomes and lesbian scenes (not a lot of scenes between two men, but the book implies that much of this kind of work has been destroyed, so it's not necessarily a representative sample.) Obviously it's all NSFW or I would post some of it. It's funny to look through it and see stuff made decades or hundreds of years ago and see that it's not significantly different from the weird poo poo you see on any given DeviantArt page today. I think that I and most people have been under the assumption that the internet created the market for weird fetishistic art, but it turns out that humans have literally always been like this. It's kind of sobering, not a feeling I expected when I flipped through a book of old art porn.
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Oct 29, 2019 18:36
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I don't have a scanner and I'm not about to take this to work to do that so my phone camera will have to suffice, unfortunately. The book is simply called Erotic Art 2 by Kronhausen. I just picked out a few that caught my attention, but the book has a ton of examples. The subjects range from straightforward heterosexual lovemaking to pedophilia and bestiality, some are mostly realistic sketches while others indulge in deep fantasy or distort time and perspective. It's a fascinating book for its age because it makes me realize that some of the themes I've seen that I assumed were inventions of the internet have had precedence in art generations removed. These are all very  so I'll provide a description of it if you don't want to look at it. Here is some 200-odd year old cucking.. A regal looking man with a scepter and a crown on his three foot erection carries an rear end. The credit on this one is Félicien Rops, 1833-98.Top: a faun or satyr sort of creature masturbates. Bottom: tentacles. More Rops. Top left depicts a dapper man-sized erection in a suit. Top right is a flaccid man-sized dick whose balls hang from his chin to his knees. Bottom is a satyr impaling a woman from vagina to mouth with an eight foot erection. The woman appears to be enjoying it nonetheless. A giant chariot made out of cocks driven by nude women with Roman-like garb and being pulled by naked men. Bonus cunnilingus sketches. This is my favorite one because of how it distorts space to give two very different impressions. I'm sure there's an art term for that but I don't know it. The woman simultaneously occupies two drastically different but dramatic poses, with the only shared vector being her vulva, and her belly button, which serves also as her anus. It's such a strange take on the concept of an erotic drawing that I find it to be a really interesting piece. There's an example of what I can only describe as a 100 year-old depiction of futanari, but the girl in the drawing has a very uncelar age so I'm not going to risk it. Apparently this is the second volume so I wonder what's in the first. Heath fucked around with this message at 06:35 on Nov 7, 2019 |
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Nov 7, 2019 06:01
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I picked this one up the other day and I've flipped through it a little bit, it seems pretty fascinating.  
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Nov 8, 2019 17:46
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Jestery posted:Have we talked about house of leaves yet? Flip to the Heath fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Dec 30, 2019 |
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Dec 30, 2019 22:08
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Jestery posted:The index? It's not there Yeah. The word does not occur anyplace in the book.
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Dec 30, 2019 23:23
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House of Leaves' mystery is in its aesthetic. It's an attempt to blend written media with the physical medium in which it's made. Whether it's successful in that or not is up to the reader, but it's interesting nonetheless and it has a lot of thought put into the presentation. It's the rare sort of thing where the story is using words as building blocks of something mimicking a physical space, rather than a more conventional narrative that uses language to paint a picture. It's a bit of a victim of its own success, because I remember thinking it was much more interesting at the time it came out than it seems to me now, although I still respect it for what it is. It is one of those books you can get lost in looking for the little hidden details, which works towards its overall conceit of a landscape that never stays static. It's worth checking out and it was a crazy popular book so you can probably find it at any Salvation Army or whatever without much digging. Even if you don't read it I recommend giving it a good flip through to see if it interests you, just to see what it's like.
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Jan 1, 2020 06:42
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Gutter Phoenix posted:This is another one one of those books from the box of free stuff at my apartment complex. I've been curious about what exactly this is, but not curious enough to buy a copy, so this was a nice find. I have this one! It's super beautiful in person. The filigree is a nice shiny blue. All of these Penguin Deluxe editions are great and I will buy them in good shape just to have them. I wish more books had the French folds and deckled edges like these do. I know not everybody likes them, but I love it.
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Jan 17, 2020 20:59
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Is there an illustration of the part where Sancho sneaks off to take a poo poo but it stinks so badly that it wakes Don Quixote?
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Jan 18, 2020 05:03
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What do you get when you take the cross out of Satan? NASA. Ipso facto.
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Jan 21, 2020 05:57
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I really love marginalia, but I am reluctant to buy books with it due to the influence a previous reader can have on my own experience reading a book. I'm currently very casually reading this: It's a well-used copy that I picked up at some point for four bucks, from I-know-not-where-or-when, and in spite of its heavily cracked spine it contains some highlights in an obnoxious pink in two sections: Zen and the Samurai and Zen and Swordsmanship.   The previous owner appeared to be particularly interested in those two subjects, so I'm left to wonder much about them. While this isn't a narrative book I become a bit distracted by the thought of why the previous owner decided to highlight any specific passages. I find myself under the assumption that it was probably a male, likely in his mid-20s at the time, and has at least a passing interest in Bushido philosophy and its specific relationship to Zen. There aren't any highlights in the other sections. That aside, the book is pretty interesting. I read the section on Zen and the Art of Tea. Matcha has become a pretty big thing in the States in the last five years or so, and it has significant origins in the tea ceremony - also amusingly translated as "tea cult" according to the book, written in the 1950s. There is a lot of intention that goes into the tea ceremony, the origins of which are explained briefly in the book. Evidently fancy teaware was such hot poo poo at one point in Japan's history that finely crafted ones fetched exorbitant sums. A good tea caddy may have been a significant status symbol.
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Jan 21, 2020 07:00
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I love those weird old Penguin Classics editions.
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Feb 1, 2020 00:44
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 Definitely more on the "weird" end than the "wonderful." This is the only picture I thought to take of it but I think it speaks for itself
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Feb 17, 2020 08:51
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Oh hey, the new issue of Wife Pod is out!
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Mar 6, 2020 00:03
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 I found this years ago and I regret not buying it The marginalia kept up that pace for exactly ten pages and then abruptly ended
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Mar 6, 2020 18:02
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I feel like the guy was trying to roleplay his way into the book a bit by purposely being slightly insane in his highlighting since the book is about a text that drives its readers crazy
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Mar 6, 2020 21:30
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You became a Christian because of Dogma? I thought most people went the other way around.
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Mar 11, 2020 18:46
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Gutter Phoenix posted:It took me a long time to find a copy of this: Is this the one where the man fucks the tree
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Apr 15, 2020 02:11
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This but it's all the seasons of Simpsons references
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May 23, 2020 00:57
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Kinda wanna read that Sex Tech book ngl
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May 29, 2020 01:19
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That's, uh, one interpretation of what Hobbit feet look like
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Aug 19, 2020 01:11
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Extremely "graphic design is my passion" energy there
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Oct 13, 2020 19:07
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I picked up a copy of Milton's Paradise Lost yesterday solely on the basis that it seems to have belonged to a woman who kept copious notes on the entire poem. There are several different pens and shifts in handwriting, so there may even be notes from multiple owners. These are always fun. 
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Oct 13, 2020 19:15
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Curious about that "Phoenix Journal"
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Oct 15, 2020 02:06
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Is the author of that a man? There's a ton of literature from that time period (I'm guessing turn of the century give or take a decade) that's just really plain advice like "your wife may have legitimate grievances and you should listen to her" that I'm sure was scandalously radical at the time
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Nov 6, 2020 06:45
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"Hot lance?" Is that what he's going for?
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Nov 13, 2020 00:31
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Gonna have to see some of those poems
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Nov 13, 2020 01:12
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I would like to know more about the Terrible Sand Pit Tragedy
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Jan 30, 2021 17:55
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I'm willing to give a pass to someone describing a player's musical skill in a written format by just straight up saying he's good at it
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Feb 12, 2021 08:47
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I kinda love that cover
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Aug 2, 2021 21:15
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POC GTFO is an acronym that could be read very differently
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Aug 12, 2021 18:24
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SavageMessiah posted:Maybe I, too, am engaging in the typical Goon Activity of reading things in the most negative possible light. You are most definitely doing that
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Gutter Phoenix posted:I saw this at a flea market the other day: 
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