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Zelda Fitzgerald: Where Have Sixty-Five Years Gone?
Never forget: Zelda had a gift for words, too. Muses aren’t always mute.
Zelda Fitzgerald Quote Poster
“The slivers of artistic vision which she was able to develop reveal a singular sensibility, her raw ability yielding under a surprisingly effective command. Zelda Fitzgerald is, possibly, best known as the ultimate liver of life, a rare talent at which she excelled with panache, humour, and fortitude. She was also a creator of things beautiful, witty, complex, and sensual. How much was left unrealized, we will never know: that answer died with her in a sanitarium fire, on 10 March 1948.
The greatest work of art that it is in our limited power to create is that which we salvage, fashion, and edit from the raw material of our lives. Zelda Fitzgerald, in potential and adversity, made much of what she was given, as a human being and as an artist.”-from Zelda: The Other Fitzgerald, by Alicia Austen
Inspiration Board-9th March 2013
Today my muses are spread so far across the map that there really is no map. Yay for eclectic inspiration. Enjoy!
I cannot get enough of John Grant’s new song, Pale Green Ghosts. It is the soundtrack for my packed writing weekend.
Dolores Costello
New Church in Ryde, Isle of Wight, by Alfred Heaton Cooper. 1908.
Votes for Women cup and plate. 1910s. The Women’s Museum, Dallas, Texas.
Augustus John
Aristotle Quote Poster
Fannie Ward on an M.J. Moriarty Playing Card. 1916.
Mina Loy by Stephen Haweis. 1905.
Vita Sackville-West Ponders Her 121st Birthday
Vita Sackville-West was born on 9 March 1892.
Birthday girl Vita Sackville-West in 1916.
QUOTE: “I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.”
SOME WORKS: Sissinghurst; Solitude; The Edwardians; All Passion Spent; The Dark Island; No Signposts in the Sea.
A KEEPSAKE:
The Edwardians by Vita-Sackville West at Eager for Word. $12.34.
Daily Diversion #105: Here Are Some Delicious Photos For You to Look at Whilst I Work on a Short Story
I have reached the frenzied, delectable stage of writing my current short story. All of you writers know what I am talking about: that blissful point where everything-plot, characterization, language, action-clicks into place. When it all begins to make cohesive, beautiful sense. That is where I am at today, dear readers. It feels good, but it is also time-consuming. I will be back tomorrow with several posts. Until then, feel free to let your gaze wander over, and your mind reflect on, the charms of this little gallery. I’ve had a tasty and sociable few weeks, wouldn’t you agree?
Yep, it’s a chicken!
Avocado carcass
Homemade chili served over tortilla chips, topped with queso cotija and guacamole.
Homemade chocolate mousse and whipping cream parfaits, topped with slivers of sea salt dark chocolate.
Framed Charley Harper canvas giclees.
Curry pizza
Drinks
Mussels
Pizza
“Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.”-Henry David Thoreau
The Transcendental Louisa May Alcott Died 125 Years Ago Today
Louisa May Alcott died on 6 March 1888. Here she is, at the quarter-century mark, looking utterly captivating.
Louisa May Alcott
QUOTE: “Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.”
SOME WORKS: Hospital Sketches; Little Women; Little Men; Eight Cousins; Under the Lilacs.
A KEEPSAKE:
Louisa May Alcott Quote Typography Print at Jane and Company Design. $20.00
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The Dead Writers Round-Up: March 4th-8th
- William Carlos Williams died on 3/4/1963. “It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.” (Poems; Spring and All; Journey to Love; Paterson)
- Frank Norris was born on 3/5/1870. “I never truckled; I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. By God, I told them the truth.” (McTeague; The Octopus: A Story of California; The Pit)
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born on 3/6/1806. “Who so loves believes the impossible.” (Casa Guidi Windows; Aurora Leigh; Last Poems)
- Artemus Ward died on 3/6/1867. “It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us in trouble. It’s the things we know that ain’t so.” (Artemus Ward His Panorama; Artemus Ward in London)
- Pearl S. Buck died on 3/6/1973. “Hunger makes a thief of any man.” (The Good Earth; Peony; The Big Wave)
- Stevie Smith died on 3/7/1971. “All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.” (Novel on Yellow Paper; This Englishwoman; Not Waving But Drowning; Scorpion and Other Poems)
- Kenneth Grahame was born on 3/8/1859. “After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.” (The Golden Age; Dream Days; The Wind in the Willows)
- Sherwood Anderson died on 3/8/1941. “I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.” (Many Marriages; Winesburg, Ohio; The Triumph of the Egg: A Book of Impressions From American Life in Tales and Poems)
William Carlos Williams’ Passport Photo, 1921
Frank Norris
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Artemus Ward
Kenneth Grahame, circa 1910
A Young, Hopeful D.H. Lawrence Looked to the Future…
…and died on this day, 2 March, 1930.
D.H. Lawrence, 1906.
QUOTE: “I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth’s follies-thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.”
SOME WORKS: Sons and Lovers; The Rainbow; Women in Love; Aaron’s Rod; The Plumed Serpent; Lady Chatterley’s Lover; The Rocking-Horse Winner.
A KEEPSAKE:
Essay on D.H. Lawrence by Kenneth Young at Dunedin Street. $6.78
[R]evolving Incarnations: A Questionnaire For Passionate Readers-Featuring Jennifer Koe of Quirk’n It
[R]evolving Incarnations: A Questionnaire For Passionate Readers is an interview series done in classic Q&A format. Each entry features one intrepid writer/blogger/artist/creative mastermind as they take on the same 40 reading-themed questions and scenarios. This is the series debut, so be sure to leave your thoughts in the comments section!
JENNIFER KOE
Jennifer Koe is a North Carolina based photographer and blogger. Be sure to check out her exquisite blog, Quirk’n It.
- What book have you always wanted to read, but haven’t? Why? Probably Thomas Pynchon’s, “Gravity’s Rainbow.” It is a modern classic, and I have heard as much bad as I have good, so I would like to find out for myself. However, it feels a bit like taking on “Ulysses.”
- What is your favourite line or passage from a book? “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one…just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”-The Great Gatsby Continue reading
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