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Palestinian craftsmen, Model of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, 18th century. Olive and pistachio wood, mother-of-pearl, camel bone.

Józef Pankiewicz (Polish,  1866 - 1940) 

Swans in the Saski park at night, 1896

Skyscape 22 - Michael Porter

British , b. 1948 -

A vendor at Thriftapalooza was wanting to just be done with everything so offered a bunch of books and this 1946 General Electric 250 radio to a good home. The sucker is heavy to carry around. I was told it works but couldn't be tuned in; my observation is that the electrical relay hums fairly loud but the five vacuum tubes inside do not light up.

I think the culprit is this:

There is a lead-acid wet cell inside!! Radio Museum says that it has to be functional for the AC power to work(!) because it passively regulates voltage and filtering... hmm, unsure if I have the moxie to fix that, but will add water (and see if it needs some sulfuric acid) just in case. Also, replacing the tubes might be in order.

more medieval manuscript repairs

all from a miscellany containg thomas de chabham's "summa poenitentialis", southern germany (?), first half of the 13th c.

All of his actions leading up to the murders show that he is aware of what he's doing and at worst actively plotting this with a conscious mind.

I do not think someone like he describes himself to be would sending the police multiple letters taunting them about the murders he had committed.

Nor do I think all his victims would be the same (little girls). If it was truly insanity; at random then why is it the same vunerable population? The ones easiest to manipulate and the weakest to fight back? It takes conscious effort to chose to go after a vunerable demographic like that. It is not a random attack fueled by a moment of insanity.

But for a moment, lets believe his words. If we allow ourselves to believe he isn't actually aware of when he commits the murders. As he said he is only aware after he's done them and is horrified by his own actions. YET he still chooses to talk to little children, he choses to be friendly despite knowing himself to be danger to them.

At what point does he tap out and becomes unaware of his crimes? Where does his insanity start and end? What triggers it? He seems pretty aware when the mob is after him that he should run away, he knows what they are after them for while he was walking with a future potential victim. He knows.

Bruno Vekemans (Belgian, 1952–2019)

"Train", 1998.

Lithograph, 92 × 77 cm.