That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for February 13, 2025

He got this great deal at the Louvre garage sale.

This string contains many of my comments from the last time this painting, “The Library,” was posted here:

/// On most library walls you’ll find books–

in their cases, on shelves and in nooks.

But in this athenæum

you may think you don’t see ‘em,

but they’re up there, framed, hanging on hooks.

Lucretia Garfield’s spider wallpaper is stunning.

Fun Factoid thatijustmadeup: Seemingly sedate Librarian Segerstéen had arranged in his home a powerful tesseract from his painting collection. It enabled him to move through time and space and between multiple dimensions. M.C. Escher as a young man got much artistic inspiration from him for his later drawings. (—

“Who lives in a house like this? David, it’s over to you!”

Sure, when Johan had accidentally ordered a hundred picture frames instead of just ten, he could’ve just sent the extras back- but why go to all the trouble when he could just put them to use?

The Seventine Chapel never achieved the recognition of it’s Vatican counterpart.

Edger tried desperately to justify the extra large box of picture hanging hooks he accidentally bought on Amazon.

Arthur was nouveau riche, and wanted to display his appreciation of art.

’’If you think this is impressive, you should see my baseball card collection!"

The small photo made me look up ‘Krouthen’. Quite impressive. Thank you!!

Well, anyone can fill their library with books. I have paintings of scenes from books!

He doesn’t play critical games /he cares not for painters names/ his collection’s world class / but alack and alas/ it’s a world-class collection of frames.

You have to do something with all the paint-by-numbers pictures your spouse did.

I’m assuming the paintings were like the libraries filled with books — not for use or appreciation, but just to demonstrate how wealthy the owner was.

The collector had gone to some trouble/

His collection was easily double/

The size of his rivals’/

But a threat to survival:/

His remains were found in the rubble…

The constant sight of all those books at work drove Herr Segerstéen to have a completely different decor at home.

He paid for the children to attend art college so he decided to make use of their projects.

He had to do something to cover the pinups whenever Mom was due to visit.