Something else I sighted on FB tonight:
An illustration by Harold Piffard (one of England’s first aviators as well) for a book called The Signors of the Night; The Story of Frá Giovanni, the Soldier-Monk of Venice; And of Others in the “Silent City” (whew) from 1899 by Max Pemberton, noted novelist of the day. This image struck me as, frankly, slightly alarming. Couldn’t quite work out why at first, but then I got the odd feeling the guy on the table wasn’t 100% dead… Anyway, in search of more information, I found a copy of the book on Internet Archive…
…Oooh, look, that picture! It’s actually the frontispiece for the book, what an interesting choice… what does the caption say… OH. OH FUCK. OH NO. CORPSE IS INDEED NOT CORPSE AFTER ALL. Goddamn, I was actually right about the feeling I got from the picture without the caption… cos the fellow doesn’t look particularly not dead to me, I just got that vibe for some reason. Did Fra Giovanni burst in to save this poor bastard from those cone-hatted murderers? And why do I also feel there’s something oddly anti-Semitic about them?
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