Writing In The Crosshairs

Hello, seekers of oddities ... A 1766 portrait of Rousseau   I am Jean-Jacques Rousseau ... or rather his ghost My friend, Sam...

Self portrait , J W M Turner, oil on canvas, circa 1799 Ghost of Rupert Brooks here: Rupert Brooke   I died on this da...

"Money is the fruit of evil as often as it is the root of it!"  - Mark Twain Mark Twain here again: In 1056 on this date...

    Mark Twain , ghost here -- On this day in 1910 I died, aged seventy-four. Despite an undercurrent of doubts and dark tho...

    It's an odd truth: reality is a slippery thing.   We often expect one thing and get quite another. We awaken to a dark...

Lord Byron in Albanian dress painted by Thomas Phillips in 1813. “And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.” ― George Go...