Two Miles High
  • A Tale of Two Women
  • The Age of Consent
  • Alice's Mirrors
  • Angel Incarnate
  • Beauty & the Beast
  • Dreaming of the Virgin Mary
  • From Russia with Love
  • Homer's Women
  • The House of Incest
  • How to Look at a Naked Lady
  • Immortal Beloved
  • The Judgment of Paris
  • Kama Sutra
  • Letters from Africa
  • Life as Opera
  • Loki's Children
  • Oz is China
  • Poison Pen Letters
  • Precious Bodily Fluids
  • Sacred Prostitute
  • Spinster
  • The Sorcerer's Apprentice
  • Splendour in the Grass
  • The Town Square
  • The Whore's Revenge
  • The Woman in the Bower
  • Vampires in Venice
  • Voices and Saints
  • Women in Trousers
  • About the Author
Oz is China

Shanghai Puppet Theatre

  • Nigel Bruce

Nigel Bruce

Jul 31, 2023
Shanghai Puppet Theatre

The Wizard of Oz in China?

Wizard of Oz Shanghai Puppet Theatre
Venetian ceruse and toxic Whiteness

Venetian ceruse and toxic Whiteness

What was the most toxic cosmetic ever used? Lead would be the favorite. Lead White carbonate was used in cosmetics because it could be caked on easily. It also was used by painters of frescoes, manuscripts and portraits, since it was easy to work with. Your face as a canvas.
Sep 1, 2025 4 min read
Milan

Milan

I went daily to the cathedral of Milan, that singular mountain which was torn out of the rocks of Carrara. I saw the church for the first time in the clear moonlight; dazzlingly white stood the upper part of it in the infinitely blue ether. Round about, wherever I looked,
Aug 25, 2025 1 min read
Can Melusine be freed with a kiss?

Can Melusine be freed with a kiss?

As everyone knows, Princess Fiona in Shrek was cursed to be transformed into an ogre every night, and only at the end of the movie with Shrek's kiss is she freed from the curse, to be her true self. Long before Shrek, there was the Roman de Mélusine
Aug 18, 2025 3 min read
Two Miles High © 2025
  • A Tale of Two Women
  • The Age of Consent
  • Alice's Mirrors
  • Angel Incarnate
  • Beauty & the Beast
  • Dreaming of the Virgin Mary
  • From Russia with Love
  • Homer's Women
  • The House of Incest
  • How to Look at a Naked Lady
  • Immortal Beloved
  • The Judgment of Paris
  • Kama Sutra
  • Letters from Africa
  • Life as Opera
  • Loki's Children
  • Oz is China
  • Poison Pen Letters
  • Precious Bodily Fluids
  • Sacred Prostitute
  • Spinster
  • The Sorcerer's Apprentice
  • Splendour in the Grass
  • The Town Square
  • Vampires in Venice
  • Voices and Saints
  • The Whore's Revenge
  • The Woman in the Bower
  • Women in Trousers
  • About the Author
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