away message – Dithyramb

I’m Phoenix bound for a few days. New posts will return when I do.

Entr’acte. New posts soon.

I’m taking a short break from posting. Here are some leps to mark your place.

The illustration is adapted from a plate in Atlas Sistemático de Historia Natural para uso de las Escuelas y de las Familias by

Traugott

Bromme and

Juan Ruiz del Cerro, 1867, in the collections of the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Fatchance is closing shop for a few days to deal with (literal) issues of the heart.

No living sacrifice is anticipated—yet.

This image of an Aztec ritual is adapted from an illustration in Historia general de las cosas de nueva España (a.k.a. the Florentine Codex) by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún (1577). From the World Digital Library.

I’ll be taking a break, no endpoint determined.

This is an illustration of a gar. Of course I have a story about gar. I’ll tell you when I get back.

The image is adapted from a plate in The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands, printed in London in 1771. Made available with other scientific illustrations in the public domain through the Biodiversity Heritage Library flickr stream.