mostly shadows and lines
Alternative Reel presents a gallery of early covers of the Top 10 Banned Books of the 20th Century. I particularly like the almost-buff version of Winston Smith on Signet’s paperback cover for “1984″; the design is clearly of its time, when lurid pulps beckoned at the drugstore. Link courtesy of Farenheit 451.
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Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed.
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.William Shakespeare, Sonnet XVIII: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?
The University of Michigan’s graduate library staff presents a Flickr collection of banned books pictures, including “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, “The Call of the Wild”, “Slaughterhouse Five”, and “Leaves of Grass”.
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Somewhere in Eden, after all this time,
does there still stand, like a city in ruins,
forsaken, doomed to slow decay,
the failed garden?Ina Rousseau, Eden
I’ve added my story Summer Reading to the Stories page of this site; it seems that Somewhat.org has left the building, and with it some wonderful little gems (as well as a couple stories of mine). They aren’t even available in the Wayback Machine. More about “Summer Reading” here.
Now see these:
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Yellow as a goat’s wise and wicked eyes,
yellow as a hill of daffodils,
yellow as dandelions by the highway,
yellow as butter and egg yolks,
yellow as a school bus stopping you,
yellow as a slicker in a downpour.Marge Piercy, Colors passing through us
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Now see these:
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Wee, modest, crimson-tippèd flow’r,
Thou’s met me in an evil hour;
For I maun crush amang the stoure
Thy slender stem:
To spare thee now is past my pow’r,
Thou bonie gem.To a Mountain Daisy, Robert Burns
O woe to small things that Robbie Burns encountered! Whither floure or mousie, he’d come tramp-tramping along, compose some sweet, sad lyrics that tied your fate to that of mankind, and then crush you lifeless. “I’m truly sorry Man’s dominion / Has broken Nature’s social union” indeed! To wee things, he was no different from the rapacious murderers of a rollicking border ballad . . .
Now see these:
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See, the grass is full of stars,
Fallen in their brightness;
Hearts they have of shining gold,
Rays of shining whiteness.Daisy Time, Marjorie Pickthall
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Long
on a weary vine, days short,
cool, shadowed by an ending…
Joanne Scott Kennedy, The Last Green Tomato
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There may be pink with white or white with rose
Or there may be white with rose and pink with mauve
Or even there may be white with yellow and yellow with blue
Or even if even it is rose with white and blue
And so there is no yellow there but by accident.
Gertrude Stein, From Stanzas in Meditation: Stanza XIII
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