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Pinball has been entrapping its victims for longer than you would think. The ancestor of the modern machine is the bagatelle board, a little known game that consisted of a flat board on which one shot a ball with a cue stick or a bat into a maze of holes and bumpers...
...moved from draper's assistant to scholarship student at London University in 1884. There he came under the lasting influence of Darwin's disciple, T.E. Huxley. It is not hard to imagine how Wells would be impressed by a theory that made the monkey the common ancestor of kings and cockneys. He was soon mixing Darwinian science and the social philosophy of Herbert Spencer in articles and stories that found ready outlets in Grub Street periodicals...
...singular combining of the purely somatic and the archly conceptualized and verbal in his aesthetic cognitions"). Nauman's intellect and methods are favorably compared with those of Vladimir Nabokov, Jasper Johns and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Even Leonardo da Vinci is hauled in to serve as an artistic ancestor. The aim of this coercive litany is to persuade doubters that Nauman is a home-grown successor to Marcel Duchamp, whose every pun and jeu d'esprit, no matter how limp, must be given the solemn study once reserved for Holy Writ. In short, Nauman has had the full treatment. Mount...
...deck, the tarot, the suits were four: cups, swords, coins and batons. Each suit had 14 cards, with four court cards that included a knight. To this pack of 56 were added a further 22 divinatory images -the Tower, the Hanged Man, the Fool (who is the ancestor of the modern Joker) and so on. And from that basic deck evolved the standard 52-card French pattern of hearts, diamonds, spades and clubs that has been used, with variants, ever since the early 15th century...
...would continue to have for the next 90 years. As we shall see, the dedication to poetry and literature in the pages of the paper would soon go by the boards, and The Crimson would gradually lose any connection except in name to the biweekly magazine which was its ancestor. But the hopes 'and ambitions, the dedication to journalism and hard work, which had characterized the first ten editors in 1873 would survive in their successors even to the present