02 January 2011

looking ahead

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what do you see?





"New Year's Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual." ~Mark Twain






observer of Man, a favorite satirist, Mark Twain reappears in the first of a three volume autobiography-


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5 comments:

  1. I love this Rex Whistler book...the illustrations inside are super, ALL my nieces and nephews are continually frightened and delighted by these ingenious follies. It may be a thin book, but it holds MUCH MORE than the usual artbooks of today.

    Your library must be major!!

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  2. I've been wanting to read that new Twain book.

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  3. I've never seen this book...thanks for the introduction...K

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  4. The Swan, It produced much amusement here. It still fascinates me.

    Donna-yes, Me too.

    Kathy- I will add some more images through the year.

    DED- Rex Whistler's illustrations are gifts-would that he had lived to old age-the bounty we would have received.

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