Sentences with phrase «silvery daguerreotype»

A bare mattress alone, in another silvery daguerreotype, is that much more weighty and yet evanescent — not to mention unburdened of associations with Mercury, Tiresias, the Caduceus, vaginas, Victorian childhoods, and the British variant on the game of Chutes and Ladders.

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Scanned from images of 30 or more species; they emerge slowly from surfaces treated to appear silvery gold, suggesting gilded daguerreotypes of unprecedented scale.
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