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I am keeping a notebook for the women & animals and are they real project here.

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Alexander McQueen

"Perhaps I am not I even if my little dog knows me but anyway I like what I have and now it is today."

from Everybody's Autobiography

Gertrude Stein

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came across this image & was struck by the way in which it is a sort of mirror inverse of the above pic of GS, ABT, and Basket. Thank you, internet, for the weirdness.

The Feminine Monarchie

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Regarding the bee, Keith Thomas, in his Man and the Natural World(1983), recounts the following anecdote: “The ancient parallel between human society and the beehive was never more popular than in the Stuart period, when numerous published treatises on bee-keeping gave as much attention to the insects’ political virtues as to their practical utility. [...] Writers laid heavy emphasis on the hive’s monarchical structure, though the embarassing discovery that their monarch was not a king, as had always been assumed, but a queen, remained controversial until the 1740s. ‘A Queen-Bee,’ explained an encyclopedia in 1753, was the ‘term given by late writers to what used to be called the King-Bee.’”

Bees & Women Compared

From Richard Remnant’s 1637 classic, A Discourse or Historie of Bees.

via Theoria

robotic animals and women