doing research… finding weirdness

Picture by James Clark Tidden, Villa d'Este, 1923. https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1223147/m2/1/high_res_d/HETAG_Newsletter_No7_201609_September_Houston_in_Europe.pdf And who is James Clark Tidden? In pursuit of a short story idea, I’ve been reading about Rice University’s early days. Rice had an architecture and art department right from the start (1912) and, right from the start, they seem to have behaved like the European [...]