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Quote of the moment Vol.2

“We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.” – Illustrated London News, Jan. 17, 1931 G. K. Chesterton

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"I am the last monarch of the old world. As Emperor, it is my duty to protect my peoples from their politicians" -Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria-Hungary

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In Which the Divagation Store reaches the 900 posts Milestone! Reflection on Why...

Good morning, my friend, dear reader of this present post! How are you today, this new week? It should be the last one for February, quite soothing that it will end on a Sunday as well, given it started on a Sunday, too! As for me, I did sleep quite a bit yesterday, but I cannot complain of not being a productive day, given I finished reading the biography of Madame de Pompadour, written by Nancy Mitford. Quite a good one, and in fact, I would say is a great one! What a remarkable lady she was, the great patronesse of Rococo, though she sensed a move in France towards a more neoclassical direction, and overall set the sails on the direction of the style of the next era, the one called Louis XVI style, though in truth it was the queen Marie Antoinette who truly set the tone. I like this topic, and I love her majesty. Though the late rococo she preferred was hinted with an antique tint, it was not the more sober neoclassical of the 1790's and the Napoleonic era. She brought flowers a...
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In Which we have Socks and Belo Horizonte

Good morning! Happy Tuesday, wish you the best, my friend, dear reader of this post! How are you today? How are things going? I am okay, I'd say, the wintery weather keeps going, which makes me very happy, I love rain, fresh wind, and cloudy skies. I am trying to be more active on the creative side, I got new online art courses, and I'm trying to actually follow them lol even if I suck at doing that. Even if I don't, I can't apply what I see to my daily life, to my daily drawings. Speaking of drawings, I have some to finish, two, to be precise, and I want to draw some buildings, eventually, even if I don't have any proper rulers where I am, at my grandma's house. I am here, paying her a visit for the week, because I'm totally broke and affording a ride to my home to her home for lunch, and back, is harder, at least for now at this moment, so to save some pennies, I'm staying here for some days at least. It's not bad, but I miss my desk, I miss my second screen, miss my bedroom in general... but like I said, I like it here as well, it's a nice place, and grandma always treats me well and cares for me (sometimes care too much), I never really put affinity into question when visiting grandparents or staying at home with mom because I love them all, so the commodity takes the front seat. Today, in this post, I'd like to share yet again another Best of Instagram picture, and to say at least some people share my loathe towards their new design and new agenda of going the TikTok way. I mean, to say things were amazing before is just not telling the truth, Instagram had my loathe at least since 2020, when their leftist bias became ever more present, even before I had a lot of reservations, but I'd say 2020 as the turning year. Since then, it only got worse and worse, in every possible way. Anyway, here's a Insta pic from my 2017's trip to Belo Horizonte. I since then forgot what this building is, but I think it's a lovely one! Belo Horizonte has some nice revival buildings to admire, I think I have some more pictures to share of them.


That trip was nice, even if the "art" complex I visit was a dumpsterfire, a place that should not exist in the first place, but anyway. I have another subject I'd like to mention today as well! My online friend Zach, the one that inspired my story that I posted on 2021's blog birthday, he's being sponsored by a sock company now, SockItToMe, if I'm not mistaken! He asked for help on the sharing of his and the company's work on socks, to which I couldn't say no, because I'm very fond of Zach and I love funky socks, as you guys know, so in the future, maybe, I'll talk a bit further on socks, and even share the divagation store with Zach, so he can also talk on socks! I hope things go well.

I think it's time to start wrapping the post up, it's getting big, I don't like when it starts getting too big, as you know. I may return before the end of the month, but if I don't, you can count on a post around the 31st, to wrap July in! Either way, I'll see you again real soon, always happy to receive you here, on the divagation store!

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