The Luminist by David Rocklin

Author:David Rocklin
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780983477518
Publisher: Hawthorne Books
Published: 2011-06-03T10:00:00+00:00

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You have been transported from your houses in Leadenhall Street to the dominion of the richest Empire in the world, and left as if by dream in that amazing pitch of exultation and riches. Rejoice, and hold fast to our course.

Pamphleteer, to directors and stockholders of the East India Company, on their hold over India, 1836

I had the opportunity to see each step in the operation of the process. The plate, used for the purpose of stealing my likeness, the polished sur- face afterwards exposed to the action of vapor until golden in hue. The plate was, in my presence, placed in a small box and thereafter in a solution of unknown origin; by this action was my visage to be produced. Yet when the plate was removed, I was invisible. The cry went out: Failure!

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