
It is easy to overlook an albino wallaby in a black and white photograph, particularly when it has its back to the camera. Against a pale background and partially hidden behind a swallow, a duck, and a rabbit, the ghostly white blob could be mistaken for a mishap of nineteenth-century photography. But while the wallaby [...]
Jeremy Bentham: Auto-Icon
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Auto-Icon; or, Farther Uses of the Dead to the Living. A Fragment. From the Mss. of Jeremy Bentham (not published), 1832 (…) VARIOUS are the means by which animal bodies have been preserved for ages. Bruce speaks of the bodies of men which he found in the torrid regions of Africa: and Acerbi mentions the [...]