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...hastened to open the only small window, with its rust-pitted iron bars. When I succeeded in pulling the knob and the window swung open, flakes of peeling paint as well as a shower of dust fell to the floor. The only furniture in the room was three narrow beds of rough wooden planks, one against the wall, the other two stacked one on top of the other. A cement toilet was built into one corner. Never in my life had I been in or even imagined a place so primitive and filthy. The guard came back with several sheets...
...Each adventure began with the boy Nemo in his hallucinogenic nightworld, provided some vision or threat, and ended with him waking up startled in bed at home. McCay must have taken inspiration from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and from L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the publishing sensation of the early 1900s. Nemo is quite like Dorothy Gale, less invigorated than intimidated by this fantastic world, and usually wanting to get back home. ("I don't like this one little tiny bit," he says, "not one tiny weeney...
...lovers, invest your money in the Little Nemo book; in The Spirit Archives; in the spectacular enlarged reproduction of Mad comics that Russ Cochran produced in the 80s, or the MAC OS X compilation of all Mad magazines. Sit at your computer, snuggle up in bed or sprawl on the floor with the book open before you. Be a kid again, discovering the low thrills and high art of old Comics Books. You don't need a museum to tell you that this stuff is great...
...want people to know this is not the experience of Al the Calvinist, but Al the Christian. I wasn't reciting Calvinist principles to myself in the hospital bed, but I was very much trusting in the sovereign God any Christian can know and trust...
...basis for $5,000 a night. The new, record price is for a holiday package that includes three chauffeured Rolls-Royces, a dinner for 20 with strolling violinists, round-the-clock butler and chambermaid service, private bartender, free-flowing beluga caviar and Dom Pérignon champagne, and breakfast in bed. Checkout time, please note, is still...