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Tuesday, 01 January 2008

New Year's gift for Harriet

Trespassing on Harriet's territory here, to offer her a woman reading. You are never alone when reading, but these beasties are not my normal company. I always hope there is an angel on my shoulder, or at least a daemon (in Pullman's sense), but who knows? This vision is by Otto Frello, 1975.

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How completely delightful! I am really pleased -- that's what so great about blogging -- all these new though unseen friends. Have a great new year and keep up the blog, which is always such a pleasure to read.

Posted by: Harriet | Tuesday, 01 January 2008 at 09:40 AM

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Quotidian

Nothing is of greater consolation to the author of a novel than the disovery of readings he had not conceived but which are then prompted by his readers. (Umberto Eco, Reflections on The Name of the Rose)
... relatively few persons in London ... can afford the luxury of one or more servants. No fewer than 3,700,000 have no servants at all, and of the half million that have servants 227,000 have only one. (The Times, 6 June 1895)
Standing among savage scenery, the hotel offers stupendous revelations. There is a French widow in every bedroom, affording delightful prospects. (Tyrolean inn brochure, according to Gerard Hoffnung)
(A doctor is at an elderly relative's deathbed) "The old sawbones, eh?" he bellowed ... "Just in the nick, perhaps. Haul the old girl back by the short hairs, if you ask me. Devilish smart at his work ... Always take a fence with more confidence when I know he's out with us."
Too often, when a man of Monty Godkin's mental powers is plunged in thought, nothing happens at all. The machinery just whirs for a while, and that is the end of it. (P G Wodehouse, Heavy Weather)
...the breed that take their pleasures as Saint Laurence took his grid (Kipling, The Five nations)