An infernal machine.
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You see, this is why nuns should not be allowed to watch hentai. It gives them ideas.
Image source lost by me, unfortunately.
For Professor Waite, on the other hand…
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This illustration is only tangentially related, but I like it anyway.
Found at the tumblr Hoodoo that Voodoo.
For Willie, the “effect wearing off” comes at a rather fortunate time.
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For Willie it must have been like waking up from one dream into another.
Poster for this 1968 (I think) movie found at dfordoom (“worshiping beauty from a safe distance”) tumblr.
Looks like Rayna Ryan has moved up a bit on the Magdalene College pecking order.
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As a way of remembering, a cover for what I take to be some unusual tale of adventure.
From Drake Capterton’s tumblr.
Meanwhile, back in the dungeon at St. Mary Magdalene College, Willie seems to have gotten Waite’s body into rather a spot of trouble.
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Those nuns! It’s an old story.
From a French comic book adaptation of Diderot’s La religieuse, apparently available for sale here.
Willie wakes up a little earlier than scheduled, and is annoyed.
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Willie might be feeling a bit like the central figure in Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s The Drinker right about now.
We’ve all been there.
It is convenient in so many ways for Professor Waite to maintain a couch in her office.
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The imagery of the opium den seems appropriate for Willie being slipped a mickey.
Léon Busy, autochrome photograph, Vietnam circa 1915
Found here, together with a discussion of an interesting controversy in which this particular photograph got involved.
Should the moral here be, don’t drink and do mad science?
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But wine is such an inducement, especially when offered by a pretty woman! An appropriate companion illustration.
Caesar van Everdingen (1617-1678), Nymphs Offering the Young Bacchus Wine, Fruit and Flowers (1670-8)
Found here.
One of Lon’s finest, I think.
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But we’re not quite there yet for the Chapter Two publication edition, because we have upcoming a bonus mini-comic, “Cassandra’s Self-Sacrifice,” starting tomorrow!
Strange afterglow.
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