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Adding this to my wish list!
(BTW - the lowest price on Amazon is $25, not $7.)
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It has been a LONG time, but I recall that Archie McPhee sold those posters. Actual ones from India. (Along with other cool stuff, like 20 year old cereal premium toys found in a warehouse, or unwanted unlamented DUNE action figures, or busts of Chinese Red Army generals.)
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That’s also how they tried to teach me Hindi and Punjabi in 6th grade from illustrated elementary school books which is why I know a bunch of nouns but no grammar.
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That last one… the ideal boy hands over “lost” children to the cops.
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Someone who can learn this art style could have a lot of spoofy fun.
Indian ex-pats of a certain age might be the best for the job.
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The Bad Habits sample reminded me of Goofus and Gallant for some reason.
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“Animals & Their Eatables”
I love that title.
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The style sort of fits in with so-called Outsider Art, but without the whiff of possible psycho-social ‘issues’.
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I definitely have all those down, definitely.
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This encourages snitching on the ideologically “lost”; it also normalizes martial law.
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Wonderful!
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a store well worth going to visit if one is in that neck of the woods.
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Thiruvalluvar. Yeah, a real great philosopher. Please.
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Indeed!
The one I will never forget illustrated several old parables with the moral printed under them.
The moral for The Fox and the Grapes was “Grapes are sour.”
I think somebody didn’t quite understand the point of that story.
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So the donkey’s natural “eatable” is homework?
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You are knowing that I am not knowing that your are kindly doing the needful
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The Ideal Boy is missing a part.
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It’s a great book, full of beautiful charts.
I know the French version, they translate and replace all the titles and cations !
edit : cation = captions
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