Go-withs

Miniaturized Workplace Rage

This is a bit of a cheat, maybe. The typewriter on a desk, I now declare, goes with . . . a computer terminal: Well, it has a keyboard, right? And it’s sort of like a desk. You sit at it while working, right? Or at least, you used to do so, in an earlierContinue reading “Miniaturized Workplace Rage”

Two Seated Ladies

A seated woman sits down for a chat with another seated woman:The newcomer is a much more business-like looking woman. She has a crisp white collar, and no flowers, no puppy, no gardening hat. Is she, perhaps, a therapist of some sort, trying to assist our old friend with whatever horror it is that hasContinue reading “Two Seated Ladies”

Precious in Pink

First, this time, we have a woman sitting beside a woman sitting: Each of the two ladies has a pet, one cat and one dog; and each holds something in her two hands: the cat, and I think (although it’s depicted quite vaguely), a bouquet of flowers. This new sitting lady is so exceedingly and delicatelyContinue reading “Precious in Pink”

One More Link in the Chain

Last time around, I looked at an old woman who was in a relationship with an old man. The old man now goes with, of course, another old man: This one is sitting on a rocking chair, apparently asleep, and with an animal, probably a dog even though it has owl-like eyes, asleep on top ofContinue reading “One More Link in the Chain”

Once More for Old Times Sake

The chain of go-withs continues. First an egg with a goose, then a goose with an old lady, and now, an old lady with . . what? One old lady–no, let us say one mature lady–goes, first of all, with another mature lady:And then, one mature lady clearly goes with a mature gentleman. Well, ifContinue reading “Once More for Old Times Sake”

What’s Good for the Goose?

As was revealed in my last post , an egg, especially a golden one like this: goes with a goose: But then, what else does a goose go with?The answer of course, is an old woman–particularly, I suspect, the old woman known as Mother Goose:And so we have another interesting go-with, a goose and an old woman, twoContinue reading “What’s Good for the Goose?”

A lot of the sets of shakers in my collection are what the world of salt-and-pepper-set collectors, apparently, call “go-withs”–the ones I like to call binary opposites: the shakers depict two quite different objects that have some logical or linguistic collection to each other, like the common opposites of black and white or good andContinue reading “Go-Withs”