Three Things: The Telephone Edition, ii

As if our phones don’t run our lives enough already, let’s spend some time writing about them this week. An incessant ring? A mystery caller? A life-changing call? What will the phone bring to your character?

Rune Guneriussen, Connections #3, from wall No. 4, 2006. Photograph. www.runeguneriussen.no

Tamara de Lempicka, The Telephone II, 1930. Oil on wood panel. 

“Woman’s Bureau, Metropolitan Police Dep’t. Telephone calls bring prompt attention.” November 1922. National Photo Co. Via Shorpy.