Sadly, the housing is slightly more pedestrian here. The only thing that room is missing is an opium pipe and accompanying lamp. And a skull. Every student needs a skull.
"In every battle the eyes are the first to be conquered..."
- Tacitus, Germania
"One must work in solitude as a man who opens a clearing in virgin forest, sustained by the unique hope that somewhere in its depths, others are working to the same end."
- Ernst Jünger
"I find that I must go handsomely, whatever it costs me, and the charge will be made up in the fruit it brings."
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Sadly, the housing is slightly more pedestrian here. The only thing that room is missing is an opium pipe and accompanying lamp. And a skull. Every student needs a skull.
I think that the room needs a cut crystal decantor filled with brandy.
If it were an English University room prominen in the picture would be Teddy Bear named after a C16th Italian Saint.
'My study's ornament: thou shell of death, once the bright face of my betrothed lady...'.
Actually, just whisky in a decanter and gin in a bottle.
Who'syourfatfriend.
'My study's ornament, thou shell of death: once the bright face of my betrothed lady...'.
Actually, stick with a decanter of whisky and a bottle of gin.
Who'syourfatfriend
I was just there a couple weeks ago.
Yale that is, not my alma mater.... that was about ten years ago.
Brummell --
My fat friend is death on wheels for poor silly you.
Yrs, etc.
Mulvaney
Fabby post, Ancient. Love the oirish wit - 'death on wheels'.... Swift,Wilde, Beckett? How's the digs at UC Dublin or Trinity?
Love to Fergus.
Kingsroadman.
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