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A Japanese crow on a snowy branch, accompanied by classic haiku from Matsuo Basho in both Japanese and English.

Two Very Good Bois rescue a stranded traveler from the snow in this vintage painting. St. Bernards don't judge you when you go out into bad weather and get stuck in the mountains--they just lick your hand and hand out the bourbon.

A painting from 1908. The hunter (who kinda looks like Ron Swanson, or is that just me?) takes a rest with his dog companions, both of whom are Very Good Bois.

An 1896 portrait of Dumboola, Champion of England, a chonky boi.

Knitting--the last bastion between a lady crafter and straight-up homicide. Taken from a World War II Red Cross ad.

Vintage poster from the 1970s. Sourced from the Library of Congress (public domain).

Solar System Homann, Johann Baptist, 1663-1724. It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood!

Another quote from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," by T.S. Eliot, one of my favorite Eliot poems.

This Very Good Doggo will watch your clothes while you go skinny-dipping so nobody will steal them.

Classical Japanese art accompanied by a haiku from Takahama Kyoshi in Japanese and English.

Our masthead cat loves classical literature. See our collection of classical literary cat-reading. Right now she's enjoying TS Eliot and looking forward to the new Cats movie!

A vintage print of Cattus Domesticus, otherwise known as StripeyButt.

Who's a bad dog? You're a bad dog! But SO FLUFFY!!!

Our masthead cat loves classical literature. See our collection of classical literary cat-reading.

Our masthead cat loves classical literature. See our collection of classical literary cat-reading.

Do you ever wonder if the book you're reading was written by your arch enemy? I do if it's full of comma splices.

Our masthead cat loves classical literature. See our collection of classical literary cat-reading. Right now she's enjoying TS Eliot and looking forward to the new Cats movie!

This vintage kitty loves to read. I like to think he's reading something by Neil Gaiman.

Our masthead cat loves classical literature. See our collection of classical literary cat-reading.

Some days mortality stares you right in the face...and grins. Here's a vintage drawing of a human skull to remind you of oncoming doom...or just to be spooky for Halloween.

Vintage painting with a collection of different dog breeds, for the indiscriminate dog lover.

All that work. All those studies. All those hours spent in the library copying the Lan Clan's 3,000 rules 400 times. And all you got was this lousy T-shirt.

Japanese print accompanied by a haiku by Matsuo Basho in Japanese (complete) and English (partial).

Edgar Allan Poe's Raven. Graphic is The Flying Raven, Ex Libris for The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe.

A sixteenth-century liturgical song sheet. Sourced from Library of Congress.

This skull should have brushed his teeth! A vintage skull drawing to spook things up for Halloween or just to remind us all of the perils of mortality and the benefits of good oral hygiene.

This vintage corvid is more than happy to deliver the expected line from Poe's famous poem, and in a Very Fancy Font, no less!

A quote from one of my favorite poems, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," by T.S. Eliot. T.S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize in 1948, so I'm sure he'd be happy to see his words on a T-shirt. (He also wrote the poetry that became "Cats" on Broadway. Has any other Nobel Prize winner been immortalized on Broadway with people dressed as cats? I THINK NOT!)

How to reduce your food waste. The message hasn't changed much since this vintage poster was made by the US Food Administration. Buy Local!

Wise words from Virginia Woolf: "I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded."

Portion of The Beekeepers by Peter Bruegel. Text from The White Bees by Henry Van Dyke. Sourced via Wikimedia Commons. Panting has been cropped for size.

Some writing advice from Walt Whitman. A great gift for the writer in your family!

This dog loves you, and wants you to love yourself.

Poe is besieged by the sassy Raven and his dead ex-girlfriend all at the same time. Gotta feel bad for the guy.

This delicate pencil drawing by August Macke depicts a woman with a lyre and a dog. She could be an angel, and all dogs go to heaven.

Oscar Wilde, who wrote "The Picture of Dorian Grey," "The Importance of Being Earnest," and other works, drops some serious philosophy here. A great gift for the writer or literature-lover in your family! (Quote from Lady Windermere's Fan)