Extraordinary 19th century photographs of explorer’s travels unearthed.

 

1. Peiper - Your link goes to an Error 404 - file not found screen

   Posted by Siddhartha Vicious       09/14/2009  at  12:12 PM  



2. Darn, thank you. will look into it at once

   Posted by peiper       09/14/2009  at  12:24 PM  



3. It’s working for me now, Peiper.  Interesting photos, indeed - only with there were more available.

   Posted by Siddhartha Vicious       09/14/2009  at  02:48 PM  



4. Wish, not with, dammit.

   Posted by Siddhartha Vicious       09/14/2009  at  02:48 PM  



5. Damn excellent find, Pieper. Truly echoes of a forgotten, distant time.

   Unfortunately, this is made all the more unnecessarily tragic because it seems like the West is racing to shed itself of its history and heritage.

   I’m starting to feel like one of those old men from Brave New World who memorized entire books in order to save their content from destruction.

   For these things- more than almost anything else- are the keys to our continued survival. And we forget them at our own ruin.

   Posted by Turtler       09/15/2009  at  11:06 PM  



6. Glad you guys enjoyed it and I also wish the paper had published more pix. Wish my health were up to a London day trip to see the exhibition. I would dearly love that.
   The bids if I read correctly start at 1,000 pounds. That’s close to $2,000. I’d would love to buy them and then donate to museum to insure that future generations see them. Too important to be in private hands.

   Posted by peiper       09/16/2009  at  05:54 AM  



7. Turtler - I think that was Fahrenheit 451, rather than Brave New World, but I still get your meaning.

   Posted by Siddhartha Vicious       09/17/2009  at  08:00 PM  



8. Siddhartha Vicious:

   DOH! I KNEW I had gotten something wrong. Thanks for catching it.

   But in my defense, I must say that both Fahrenheit 451 and Brave New World are far closer than I would like. Think about it: One depicts a society that is subdued by its insatiable lust for pleasure reveling in ignorance of the greater machinations, and the other sees knowledge be washed out for the public good.

   Both seem to be edging into the realm of reality at a disturbing rate. I mean, they might not have begun to burn books and much on TV is educational, but take a look at what direction the content is going: the Central Powers have been all but exonerated save perhaps in the morally-equivalent “they were all equally bad” tripe for their role in WWI, Ho Chi Minh and his comrades were never really called to account, and it seems like Hitler, Stalin, and the Japanese military are next in line. On the other hand, it appears the deadbeat Baby boomers desire to create a smaller generation in their image, a generation that has thus far save for precious few exceptions remains uselessly pursuing the pleasurable malaise of euphoria while ignoring the roof caving in above their heads.

   Mark my words: all of us are amongst the few who recognize the problem, and unless we can force the issue, the century ahead may be dark indeed.

   (So, have I made everybody forget about my error yet?)

   Posted by Turtler       09/17/2009  at  09:28 PM  

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