The Artifacts Series

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Legend has it that Close's last words were:
"I’m tired of being the funniest person in the room."
Before passing away, Close requested that his skull be given to the Goodman Theatre for use in productions of Hamlet, on the condition that he receive credit in the program as Yorick.
"What we do is too enchanting to bequantified" - Del Close

"I'll only do the interview if this kid comes out to the field with me and does some shooting."

Hunter Thompson

MACE photographed on black metal background
RG21 U.S. District Court
Northern District of Illinois
Eastern Division, CHICAGO
Criminal Case File 69CR180
“The Chicago 7” Trial

Mother called Dad the Mezuzah,

because he received kisses from all the women when they greeted him in class.

When he began loosing his sight to macular degeneration he found other ways to read.

Henry Darger was certainly no lover.

Whether he was the unworldly bard for a world all of his own making,

or a retiring, obsessive madman, is still very much open to debate

A Trip Through the Orient
Following Biblical Trails & Traces of Ancient History
Together with Notes on the way going Out and Coming Home
Commencing March 9,1910 by H.H Emminga