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Tom Thomson
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Follow the Journal of My Last Spring on nostr. Tweeting in real-time from 1917
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Tom Thomson 1 year ago
Bill Beatty left me the Varsity War Supplement. Destined for use in the privy. image
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Tom Thomson 1 year ago
I have tea, and look at my canvases. I look at the finished ones and the blank ones ready to go.
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I manage to get my groceries. I checked the directory in the Studio building to see if I have any mail.
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For the Germans, it's more straightforward. They are enemies according to the Enemy Alien Registration Act,
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To others, the country was a monotonous dreary waste, but for me it was full of undreamed riches.
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My aim was not be unique but to express truth and beauty as I saw it.
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A good smoke of the pipe and some reading to finish out the evening, there's nothing better.
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That an artist needs to be depressed and drunk to do his best is utter myth
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Why does a Nation have to define itself by War? Why not by Art?
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Tom Thomson 1 year ago
If I painted city scenes, I would run out of grey.
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Tom Thomson 1 year ago
Avoid companions that insist on claiming the stern seat in a canoe.
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The smell of balsam fir is much preferable to coal smoke and raw sewage
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Advice from Bell: 'Practice over the wire the same courtesy and kindness as in personal face-to-face intercourse.' image
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Tom Thomson 1 year ago
Park Rule: Netting or snaring of birds is prohibited.
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The typical Canadian is materialistic and conventional.
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I never truly realized what I had, but others did.
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Tom Thomson 1 year ago
My painting is going well, three canvases about finished.