Humanities: equal time

I admit I've always had a bit of a fondness for old Samuel Johnson, though my only impressions of him are what come filtered through the Bruce Alexander novels in which he is a very minor figure, and in Lillian de la Torre's wonderful, "Sam'l Johnson, Detector" stories. He seems to me like one of those people who was a curmudgeon, didn't care that he was, and actually took some amusement from that fact. (I have a book describing his (and Boswell's) travels throughout the British Isles, but have not read it yet.)

But I also like the old painting sometimes called "Peering Sam," because I'm short-sighted myself and sometimes have to do this very thing when faced with a line of small or fuzzy type:


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It's even better with the added caption.