It's probably relevant to some novel or other.

[changeling]

I almost had a post, but then I decided to mock Walter Scott for having an enormous head and looking like a grey alien instead.

It strikes me that Chopin must have been beautiful when he was alive. Ditto Keats. Shakespeare, too has clearly been given bad press by those engravings on the backs of books of his plays. Because he always looks feral in those. I bet his agent hates that. Robespierre looks so peaceful, as if he's just asleep. Aw.

I was surprised by the number of death masks with facial hair intact. They shaved Ned Kelly's, and I was always pretty sure that was for his death mask. Maybe Australians and/or criminals get different treatment.