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The Nightwalker and the Nocturnal Picaresque: Street Lighting in 1600s London (publicdomainreview.org)
27 points by benbreen on June 6, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



Ah, the seventeenth century. A fuckfest before the word existed.


I wonder what words will exist tomorrow!


Well we won't need "figuratively" since the fluid language cohort now uses "literally" to mean both "literally" and its opposite.


Doubleplusfuckfest




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