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1. "Is this Lizzie at the mirror?"
Posted by Harry on Apr-21st-02 at 10:34 AM

I didn't think that drawing was that old.

http://mypage.uniserve.ca/~larryd/woman@mirror.html

Harry, where do you FIND all this stuff?!

I'd certainly think this was more inclined toward being Lizzie memorabilia than the bogus eBay painting.  Inspired by the murders, perhaps?

I recently found this little item at my local used bookstore.  It's out of print, but probably not too hard to find, as I found a link quickly:

http://shop.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=6ABL8603W
8&mscssid=QE7A3WX6RT2P9GNJBVUPHLT70WQA57MB&isbn=1570625123

It's old postcards, games, etc. of optical illusions, popular in Victorian times & earlier.  Very cool stuff.

That book does look cool Tina.

The 1890's really were an interesting era.

Yep...Harry I'm with Tina on this one too...Where in blue blazes do you find these sites? 

That one is a real spooker too...I had to look at it for ten minutes before I saw the woman at her vanity mirror...ooooooooooowwwwwwwwww.

BC

Gee, Where have I heard a similar name before?
The Paradox Box???
The Paradox of Paradise?
That happens to be on my dining room table just this past 2 hours?



(Message last edited Apr-22nd-02  9:52 PM.)

The Paradox of Paradise?  Oh, you must mean:

http://www.xlibris.com/TheParadoxofParadise.html


I'm getting so obnoxious.

Hope you enjoy it Kat!

Gee, I always thought a paradox was a couple of mallards...

HAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAa....that's the ticket Edisto ole chum...good to "hear" your Virgo sense of humor...

BC

I didn't think Virgos had a sense of humor!  (I think maybe I've just proved that point.)

Mmmmmmmmmm....gezz I hadn't given that idea any thought...maybe I really don't have a sense of humor...maybe it's just gas....got to stop eatin' all those pears...burp...sorry

BC

My bro & sis-in-law are both PhDs.  They insist they're the "pair o docs".  Taurus & Virgo, respectively.

Here in the Bay State we sometimes refer to two wharves, you know that place were you paahk your yacht...as being a "pair of docks"...but then again the Kennedy's have taken all the spaces at Hyannis.

They would nevah come to Fall Riv...too uppity I suppose...of course we Borden's ahh Republicans and they ahh, well...the othah brand.

BC

(Message last edited Apr-24th-02  9:26 PM.)

Just a little piece of trivia, did you know that Disney used this illustration for a scene in the Phantom Manor(their version of the Haunted Mansion) in Disneyland Paris?  There is a bride seated at her vanity that morphs into this giant skull!  You can visit a site that its on, scroll down the page to like the fourth photo and there she is!

http://home.t-online.de/home/ravenswood/ph_int2.htm

Pretty cool site, Susan.  Thanks.

You're welcome, Harry.  Thought I'd share with the gang as it seems we all have a little taste for the macabre.