"The woodcut artist can do reflections, but I look like THIS?" thought Merton, a #NotAnElephant.

"The woodcut artist can do reflections, but I look like THIS?" thought Merton, a #NotAnElephant.
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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 8 October 2014: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth “The woodcut artist can do reflections, but I look like THIS?”…, the work of its first makers and not of this preſs; only the caption is the Senſeſhaper’s. Copied into this book the eighth day of October, 2014. Finis.

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