Off to a concert. Lucy Snowe begins to see more of the city of Villette, capital of the fictional French-speaking kingdom of Labassecour.
Charlotte Brontë, Villette (1853).
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Sunday, May 30, 2021
“The radiant present”
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Dear Miss Bronte,
ReplyDeleteIt has come to our attention that your book does not contain any pictures. Readers like pictures.
From our stock, for a modest fee we would be pleased to offer you illustrations of certain phrases of yours:
brightly lit streets
walled-in gardens
stars through high windows
shadow of the future
radiant present
Sincerely, The Illustrated Writing Project
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[Have you seen these Wordsworth books?
Marz bought a used copy Middlemarch (because it was cheap) and promptly pasted a new cover on:
http://wordsworthclassics.com/collections/classics/middlemarch ]
You can find old editions of Brontë with pictures. But the pictures in a reader’s head are often better.
ReplyDeleteOne reason I stopped writing a monthly post for a life-hackery site (years ago): a decree that every post had to include a photo (a stock photo). No thanks. See for instance the many English Department websites with a stock photo of a handwritten page and a fountain pen. Yeah, right.
I haven’t seen a Wordsworth book in a long time. I think they must be paying a lot less for their cover art now.
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