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| Sigismund Goetze Till Death Do Us Part 1910 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| Philip Wilson Steer End of the Chapter 1911 oil on canvas Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, Yorkshire |
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| William Denis Eden Griselda at the Wheatsheaf 1911 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| Spencer Gore Balcony at the Alhambra 1911-12 oil on canvas York City Art Gallery |
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| Harold Gilman Sylvia Gosse 1912 oil on canvas Southampton City Art Gallery |
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| John William Waterhouse Penelope and her Suitors 1912 oil on canvas Aberdeen Art Gallery |
from Trying
For a long time we looked at the world and thought not. Then we looked at our lives and thought maybe. We bought a new set of sheets for the bed. We bought a thermometer and a book.
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I find the book on the whole reassuring. It gives lots of examples using real-life names like Gail, Audrey, and Dr. Smith, as well as comic touches here and there like Dr. Rhea Sure, who keeps popping up on Gail's chart. But Appendix K does contain some trying phrases. What, for example, is a Hamster Egg Penetration Assay? What is Nonstimulated Oocyte Retrieval In (Office) Fertilization? What is the Male Factor? What is Within Normal Limits?
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If procreation were a matter to be decided purely on the basis of rational thought, would the human race exist? Schopenhauer thought not. Every evening, rain or shine, he would walk his poodle, Atma, for two solid hours through the streets of pre-war Frankfurt, trying to imagine a world as sterile and crystalline as the moon.
– Suzanne Buffam (2010)
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| Thomas Gillott Life Class 1912 oil on canvas Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery |
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| Henry Scott Tuke July Sun 1913 oil on canvas Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Charles Haslewood Shannon The Reaper and the Sower ca. 1915 oil on canvas William Morris Gallery, London |
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| Gerald Brockhurst Ireland 1916 ca. 1916 oil on board Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow |
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| Philip Connard Cookhouse, HMS Maidstone 1918 oil on canvas Imperial War Museum, London |
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| Philip de László Edith Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Marchioness of Londonderry 1918 oil on canvas Imperial War Museum, London |
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| Glyn Philpot Melampus and the Centaur 1919 oil on canvas Glasgow Museums |
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| Henri Matisse Woman in Oriental Dress 1919 oil on canvas Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow |
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| Augustus John Lady Ottoline Morrell 1919 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, London |