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Here it is! I feel I should be giving out cigars/red eggs for the occasion.
Sylvia Plath's marginalia in The Great Gatsby
"'All right,' I said, 'I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool--that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."
[via lost.net.au]
from A Tale for the Time Being
“For the time being
Words scatter
Are they fallen leaves?”
From "A Tale for the Time Being" by Ruth Ozeki
I'm still a little heartbroken that they didn't go for the first cover that designer Jim Tierney came up with. Red, clothbound, startling:
Read more about his design process here.
[Link via Ioanna Mavrou of travelsanddaysdreams.com]
from The Goldfinch
“— if a painting really works down in your heart and changes the way you see, and think, and feel, you don’t think, ‘oh, I love this picture because it’s universal.’ ‘I love this painting because it speaks to all mankind.’ That’s not the reason anyone loves a piece of art. It’s a secret whisper from an alleyway. Psst, you. Hey kid. Yes you.” Fingertip gliding over the faded-out photo – the conservator’s touch, a touch-without-touching, a communion wafer’s space between the surface and his forefinger. “An individual heart-shock.”
-From "The Goldfinch" by Donna Tart
"A secret whisper from an alleyway." "Heart-shock" Applies to reading a really good book as well, no?
And Other Rivers
And Other Rivers, Flight, cover
A taste...
Flight
There are many ways to tame a bird
without first killing it.
Wing clipping, an old favourite. Leather ropes, coiled
around the reptilian ankle. Then there are leg-irons
the size of women’s rings Or, to go back to basics, twine.
The type they take birds to market with at the back of a scooter.
Strung feet up, eyes wide, wing bones sinking to the earth.
And from elsewhere, Samsui and After Word.