Enhance Modernity, Reclaim Tradition

I'm much dearer to myself than I used to be; since I've gotten you in my heart, I value myself more, as a stone to which carving has been added is worth more than its original rock. Or, as a written or painted page or sheet is better thought of than any scrap or shred, so do I of myself, since I became a target marked by your face, which does not hurt me. Secure with such a mark, I go anywhere like one who has with him amulets or weapons that make every danger fade away from him. I prevail against water and against fire, with your mark I restore light to all the blind, and with my spittle I can cure every poison.

Some quotes:

From The Picture of Dorian Gray:

A hideous Jew, in the most amazing waistcoat I ever beheld in my life, was standing at the entrance, smoking a vile cigar. He had greasy ringlets, and an enormous diamond blazed in the centre of a soiled shirt…

For some reason or other, the house was crowded that night, and the fat Jew manager who met them at the door was beaming from ear to ear with an oily, tremulous smile. He escorted them to their box with a sort of pompous humility, waving his fat jeweled hands, and talking at the top of his voice. Dorian Grey loathed him more than ever. 

This is a recurring character who is shown to bow and scrape before anyone who he thinks might be able to give him some advantage, and who tries to emulate English nobility but gets it wrong because he is ‘the wrong sort.’ 

Harry, the Jewish theatre owner, is also shown to be taking financial advantage of a young actress’s debts to keep her ‘bound to him.’ Harry’s insistence that he wants to ‘introduce’ her to Dorian is a clear implication that this theatre owner is also a pimp. 

It is a ‘Jewish doctor’ who is responsible for infusing the blood of others into a man to make him totally evil.

Some people have argued that he was parodying George Eliot here, and that since ‘he had a Jewish friend,’ specifically a novelist who he called ‘The Sphinx,’ gosh, he couldn’t be antisemitic (I know, I groaned out loud too), but read on, friends! It only gets worse from here!

"a Jew, on his father's side"

i.e. A person who would not be considered Jewish by the majority of Jews today, let alone in his time, and probably did not consider himself Jewish, but did in some sense move through the world as a Jew.

#i call myself#schrodinger's race#anyway i love you guys and i'm so sorry ppl are like this

As a patrilineal Jew, or the child of a Jewish father, who is White(-passing) you also have this kind of Schrodinger's Privilege to go with your Schrodinger's Ethnicity.

You get to be:

Someone with obvious and obnoxious White Privilege.

Half-caste subhuman scum.

The subject of ongoing debate about whether or not you could be considered a member of your father's ethnic group.

An ignorant gentile who is falsely claiming Jewish identity (whether or not you actually call yourself Jewish).

A sneaky Jew who is trying to pass as a gentile (whether or not you actually call yourself Jewish).

Red lechwe Kobus leche

With blacksmith lapwing Vanellus armatus

Bornean Bearded Pig Sus barbatus

It is found in Southeast Asia—Sumatra, Borneo, the Malay Peninsula, and various smaller islands like in Sulu archipelago such as Tawi-Tawi, where it inhabits rainforests and mangrove forests. It can be recognized by its prominent beard. It also sometimes has tassels on its tail.

The sharp edge of an era

Images: Passing Fashions: Reading Female Masculinities in the 1920s

Image 1: Eine Frau modelt Jeanne Lanvins Version des Garçonne-Looks, 1925. Image 2: Jane Heap, photographed in Paris by Berenice Abbott, 1927. Image 3: “Garçonnes,” 1922. Paris, Palais Galliera–musée de la Mode; found on the Van Cleef & Arpels Collection.

Image 1: February 1925: British actress of stage and screen Edna Best (1900 - 1974) as Fay Collen in the play 'Spring Cleaning' at St Martins Theatre in London. Image 2: Edna Best by Dorothy Wilding, c. 1925.

Image 1 and 2: Le Grand Tailleur, No. 181 and 184; both 1926.

Image 1: Postcard of German film actress Elga Brink, c. mid-to-late 1920s. Image 2: Cover of Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung, No. 46, 13 November 1927; found in Women in the Weimar Republic by Helen Boak, pg. 270. Image 3: Publicity shot of German actress Ruth Landshoff in Das Leben; November 1929.