I don't suppose there is a Guinness world record for longest continuous broadcast of lies but if you're going to have to broadcast this man then framing it as a record-breaking performance of lies seems like a good way to do it.

Also I am both surprised and delighted to read this:

"This sketch is really beautiful, defective and devoid of art though it is."

Perfect description for those strangely arresting AI drawings you sometimes see, fresh from 1860.

If anyone's looking to try a new fragrance, here's two from June 1861: Stolen Kisses and the sequel, Box-His-Ears!

"Cor, isn't that gravel pit romantic!"

"That's nothing love, wait till you see the commercial office I've got lined up next."

Day 10 is... Homes and Haunts: Touring Writers' Shrines and Countries by @alisonbooth.bsky.social

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And lastly, a properly tragic verse printed just in time for Christmas: "Lines on a lady, who, in the last stage of decline, was making her children's mourning" - 20 December 1845

"Lines written on a bank note" - not sure on the date, alas

"Microscopic Observations" - 21 July 1849

"On being asked to write in a scrap book" - 17 January 1846