Janet Gaynor receiving her Academy Award from Douglas Fairbanks.
Enjoy This Photo of Janet Gaynor! I Will Be Back Tomorrow…
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Mostly It Is Loss/Our Revels Are Now Ended
For my friend Glen, who died yesterday.
Arthur Schopenhauer Quote
“Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.”-William Shakespeare, The Tempest
Daily Diversion #195: Sweetface
Sweetface
“Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.”-Emily Dickinson
Shopping for the Bookworm: Victor Hugo Edition
“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”-Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Les Misérables Notebook by Constarlation. $6.99.
The Works of Victor Hugo, 1928, at Picard’s General Store. $29.00.
Victor Hugo Print by Terrific Friends. $15.00.
[Alternative Muses] Coming and Going: Pierre-Auguste Renoir/Tennessee Williams Mashup
The Umbrellas by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (born on 2/25/1841), circa 1881-1886.
“Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.”-Tennessee Williams (died on 2/25/1983)
Ernest Becker Quote
The Splendiferously Bearded Writers Social Club: Leo Tolstoy
- Name: Leo Tolstoy
- D/O/B: 9/9/1828
- Member since: 1868
- Status: Charter Member
- Important Role: Spiritual advisor
- Hobbies: Raising his large brood of children; nonviolent resistance; austerity
Leo Tolstoy
Off Topic Post: Goodbye, Mabel!
Mabel Normand died on 23 February 1930.
Mabel Normand. I played around with a photo from 1915.
Some of My Favourite Literary Biographies, Part One
I own a sizable collection of literary biographies. These are some of my favourites:
- Auden by Richard Davenport-Hines
- The Secret Life of Aphra Behn by Janet Todd
- Louise Bogan A Portrait by Elizabeth Frank
- Truman Capote by George Plimpton
- Secrets of the Flesh A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman
- My Wars Are Laid Away in Books The Life of Emily Dickinson by Alfred Habegger
- Herself, Defined H.D. and Her World by Barbara Guest
- George Eliot A Life by Rosemary Ashton
Do you have a favourite?
Edna St. Vincent Millay: 22 February 1892
Edna St. Vincent Millay was born on 22 February 1892.
Edna St. Vincent Millay.
“I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.”-Edna St. Vincent Millay
A Small Press Life: Books. Art. Writing. Life. Tea. 