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...Dust, he shows dozens of the canisters in larger-than-life size, their turquoise, pink and gold colors so sumptuous they look more like oil paintings than photographs. On some of the canisters, white powdery corrosion oozes from cracks - the after-effects of regular flooding in their underground storeroom - creating geomorphic shapes in brilliant hues. The abstract beauty of the canisters is a jolting contrast to their grim origins. And to Maisel, that's the point. "It's about beauty and horror," he says. "It's a double-edged thing - seductive and disturbing...
...ngoma, which dropped from sight in the 1940s, landed him in sometimes-hostile territory ("Bullets shattered the rear screen," of his car, he writes). Ark leads had guided him to Egypt, Ethiopia and even New Guinea, until one day last fall his clues led him to a storeroom of the Harare Museum of Human Science in Zimbabwe. There, amidst nesting mice, was an old drum with an uncharacteristic burnt-black bottom hole ("As if it had been used like a cannon," Parfitt notes), the remains of carrying rings on its corners; and a raised relief of crossed reeds that Parfitt...
...just a pet… 4. And Draco Malfoy still sleeps with a teddy bear. 5. McGonagall always had a thing for Dumbledore. Guess that’s never going to work. 6. Snape had a huge porn collection. That’s the real reason why the potions storeroom was always locked. 7. Butterbeer is 150 proof alcohol... No wonder it’s so popular. 8. Harry, Ron, and Hermione used Party Funds to corrupt Hogwarts first-years! Sound familiar? 9. Fleur Delacour is bulimic. No one can put away bouillabaise like that. 10. Hermione has a unibrow...
...Guevara posters. The store has survived thanks to its role as a watering hole for the local hippie community. Unfortunately for me, this meant that, despite the fact that I was better-read than the majority of the staff, I had to be hidden in the back storeroom, where my sound hygiene wouldn’t disturb the patrons. For that bookstore and many like it, the attached café is central to the marketing of the bookstore as community-builder. More traditional bookstores, such as the Harvard Bookstore, use author readings and book club suggestions to create a sense...
...only two [mice-related] incidents in the last several years involved the Annenberg storeroom (which was renovated) and a heating vent in the Kirkland dining hall, which was also corrected,” Snyder wrote...