too bad there are no Ps in it, or even Bs and an X (otherwise it could be an acrostic)

"It is only the way it is until we discover the new way it is and then that is the way it is until we discover the new way it is, and so it goes until the world is no longer flat, electricity lights the night and shoes no longer are tied with ribbons."

-- Bella Baxter, in Poor Things

Postcard of the Day

Recently, amw shared in comments here a blog post with a bunch of early yesterday's-tomorrow postcards, and I thought I'd share some here now.  This first one is a pretty straightforward office vision:

And there's one there that is a bit of a head-scratcher, in that there doesn't seem to be much new about the theatrical exposition of a curiosity, or about the curosity shown here:

 

I think I'm guilty of what might seem like a sort of e-z know-it-all-ism in that it's the wrong guesses that I like the most.  I also like the underwater ones a lot, and the two come together with this vision of a cooperative/tamed beast-of-burden undersea creature

 

as well as with the thank-goodness-no vision that women would still be wearing dresses in an undersea future, whether needing rescue from men there or not:
 
                 

 

Let's end with this vision of a prop plane drive-thru: