Belinda was the only contortionist flexible enough to perfect the toe-to-head front-butt pose.

Belinda was the only contortionist flexible enough to perfect the toe-to-head front-butt pose.
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Source: The internet is a place of theft. And I was a notorious thief here. Shame on me, but I will make amends if I ever have EEBO access again. But life out here is hard for the unaffiliated academic.

First posted on Twitter for #WoodcutWednesday on 1 May 2013: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth Belinda was the only contortionist flexible enough to perfect the…, the work of its first makers and not of this preſs; only the caption is the Senſeſhaper’s. Copied into this book the firſt day of May, 2013. Finis.

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