I guess KC already covered this, but it’s technically acting orthogonal to Flickr Community Guidelines, to upload scans of stuff that other people originally created. Even very old PD stuff. “Flickr accounts are intended for personal use, for our members to share photos and video that they themselves have created.” Blah blah blah. Note, the CG and ToS very carefully avoid explicitly prohibiting this content—that users might post content created by others is just an possibility that the Flickr folks seem to wish to very conscientiously pretend doesn’t exist, or at least hasn’t ever occurred to them. :-)

Oh, and happy holidays, everybody. (If I keep to generic well-wishes like that, I can avoid mass remonstration, right?)

Cheers!
JzB

I’ve always thought this one of Dicken’s stranger tales, oddly overwrought, with the contrast of the terribly good Tetterbys and the gothic Redlaw undercutting the story in a silly way.. I’ve tried to imagine it as some sort of anti drug tract, ( maybe all a drugged vision of the chemist Redlaw, wrestling himself in the form of the Phantom of his darker hours), with a nod at social consciousness (is the message Redlaw without an emotional memory is degraded to the level of the ‘creature’ from the streets?). And the breaking of the Gift spread to the the family by….Millie showing up? And the influence of music?
I understand the idea expressed by “I have lost my memory of sorrow, wrong, and trouble,” said the Chemist, “and with that I have lost all man would remember!” at the heart of the story, it’s just the mechanics are confusing and often unclear.
I guess I’m trying to visualize this becoming a beloved Christmas Classic and failing. Maybe an anime version is the thing.
It might be a good message in a time when a large percentage of the population is on antidepressants..

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jholbo/sets/72157622973328046/

Please, post a link to that.

Cheers!
JzB the squid-hugging trombonist

Someone else emailed to note that the Flickr sets asserted copyright. That was just me forgetting to set the settings. But, on examination, there isn’t a Flickr setting for public domain. So I reset the images at the most generous level of CC license. (There isn’t a no-license option, so that was the most generous I could go for. Curious that there isn’t a public domain setting.)

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Public_Domain_eBook_Submission_How-To