That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for June 29, 2023

My original comment in 2019:

Poor Liz got stuck reading lines as her untalented cousin prepped to audition for Ophelia.

My original comment: This “sleeping on a marble slab” fad was short lived.

“I am bored. I am so, so bored!”

“Try reading a book.”

Honestly, Maisie. These Tunic Ripping Novels are giving my some strange dreams at night! And you’re not helping!

Courage Camille!

/// The girls’ Favourite Poet, Rossetti,

read aloud gets the two of them sweaty.

They take turns. One reclines

and requests favourite lines.

Now Veronica’s reading to Betty.

During the Medieval period, the spiciest paperback was 50 Shades of Tan.

“You’re right, Ellen. This Kama Sutra is quite the read.”

" I don’t know Florrie……but this new TP isn’t as soft as I thought it would be. I think Mr. Whipple lied to us!"

“Once you open them, Drusilla, these bloody road maps are almost impossible to re-fold..”

Drusilla was forced to concede/

That the road map was hard to read/

It led them astray/

On the Appian Way/

So they just stayed home and smoked weed..

“ ‘Britannia est insula pulchra. Britannia est patria mea..’ It’s uncanny, Drusilla – half the language is cognates!”

“There’s also a section asking us to donate to the Emperor’s defense fund.”

“I’m trying to build you a fainting couch, but these instructions are in Swedish!”

Return to the “ My Pillow” guy………..

We’ll soon have your anxiety issues settled, or my name isn’t Carla Junga.

Favourite Poet or A Favourite Author: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Listening in art" site=commons.wikimedia.org 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ecosia, and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found, and once there find the text string Poet, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly B3 paper size painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #2235 (7/3/19) (June 28, 2023) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment. I have added a comment there pointing to the blog entry with my comment pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 18 works by this artist have been used here (20 times total, including this Throwback Thursday and a prior repeat), the July 3, 2019, strip being its first use. The December 30, 2022, strip has the prior non-repeat by him.

Then it says, maintain this pose until you begin to feel melancholy set in. Step Seventeen: one must then… Wow, I never knew Ennui Yoga was so complicated!

“The Favourite Poet”, 1888

A lady named Messalina/

Ignored an Augustan subpoena/

It’s always an error/

To defy an Emperor:/

Her remains adorn the arena..///

You’ve got to admire her defiance/

But it simply is not rocket science/

Where an autocrat reigns/

To surmise that your brains/

Will end up as snacks for lions..

the “my pillow-guy” just visited and left a sample. the gals were mighty glad he came.

/// She removed the rolled scroll from its case.

Then it fell— spinning off. She gave chase.

As it spun uncontrolled

many yards had unrolled.

Now she can’t find her place. (A disgrace!)

Someone’s been to the CVS an awful lot…

My original comment …

Darling … I’m tired. We don’t have to do EVERY position it describes tonight …