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Found photos of people standing on one leg are from the archive of collector Robert E. Jackson. “This post contains some real masterpieces from my collection,” he tells us. :Should be one lots of people will like.” Let’s see…     Well, you can rock, it you can roll it Do the stomp and even stroll it at the hop When the record starts spinnin’ You Chalypso and you Chicken at the hop Do the dance sensations that are sweepin’ the nation at the hop – Danny and the Juniors, At The Hop     “My favourite piece of information is that Branwell Brontë, brother of Emily and Charlotte, died standing up leaning against a mantle piece, in order to prove it could be done” – Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time     “We may stand, if only on one leg, or at least be left still upon our knees.” ― J. R. R. Tollkien, The Return of the King     “They can print statistics and count the populations in hundreds of thousands, but to each man a city consists of no more than a few streets, a few houses, a few people. Remove those few and a city exists no longer except as a pain in the memory, like a pain of an amputated leg no longer there.” ― Graham Greene, Our Man in Havana     When I looked straight ahead, I had no idea where my left leg was, nor indeed any definite feeling of its existence. I had to look down, for vision was crucial. And when I did look down I had momentary difficulty in recognizing the object next to my right foot as my left foot. It did not seem to belong to me in any way. I never thought of putting any weight on it, of using it at all. So I stood, or was stood, supported not by my legs, but by crutches and physiotherapists, in a strange, and rather terrifying, stillness — that intense stillness which occurs when something momentous is about to happen. Into this stillness, this transfixion, brisk voices broke in. “Come on, Dr. Sacks! You can’t stand there like that – like a stork on one leg. You’ve got to use the other one, put weight on it too!” “What ‘other one’?”… – Oliver Sachs, A Leg To Stand On     He had taken me aside one day and promised me a silver fourpenny on the first of every month if I would only keep my “weather-eye open for a seafaring man with one leg” and let him know the moment he appeared – Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island     “For in grief nothing “stays put.” One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral? But if a spiral, am I going up or down it? How often – will it be for always? – how often will the vast emptiness astonish me like a complete novelty and make me say, “I never realised my loss till this moment”? The same leg is cut off time after time.” — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed     We’ve lots more from Robert E. Jackson on the site. And you can follow him here for more great stuff. The post Found Photos of People Standing On One Leg appeared first on Flashbak.

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