![]() Lasner 107 Ray 318 Reade, Aubrey Beardsley, pp.360-361. The absence of backgrounds, as in the Salome illustrations, makes the designs of closed outlines and bold dots and rare decorated blacks, all the more dramatic' (Reade). ![]() 'Beardsley had studied Greek vase painting in 1894 at the British Museum, and the Lysistrata drawings reflect something of the Greek vase spirit, including the bawdiness, without perhaps much of the spontaneity of Greek draughtsmanship. Beardsley remarked in a letter to Raffalovich: 'I think they are in a way the best things I have ever done'. (Light soiling in some margins.) Original paper-backed blue paper-covered boards, printed label on upper side, housed in a custom-made blue cloth clamshell case (extremities rubbed, some soiling).įIRST EDITION OF BEARDSLEY'S RAREST BOOK, ONE OF ONLY 100 COPIES this one numbered 4. Lysistrata is a comedy about the women of the ancient world getting fed up with war and taking matters into their own hands. ![]() 8 plates on japan vellum by Aubrey Beardsley. ![]()
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![]() The pair trade barbs over the low-slung fence. In her 2020 adult fiction debut, the winkingly titled Beach Read, January Andrews, a romance writer with an ugly case of writer’s block, accidentally moves in next door to her literary nemesis, Gus, a writer of Serious Books. Perhaps the only area of human intimacy trickier to capture than sex is true love, but the 32-year-old author, who’s published three bestselling contemporary romance novels in the last three years, has a knack for happy endings in the style of rewatchable Nineties romcoms. “You forget that a character didn’t take their shirt off, and suddenly, they’re shirtless, and a copy editor’s like, ‘When did this happen?’” ![]() It starts out choreographed in the mind of the American romance writer, but it’s also…breathless? Chaotic? “Mortifying,” Henry says. ![]() And human limbs end up at “anatomically improbable” angles, says the Happy Place author, usually because she’s forgotten to change their positions from whatever she was imagining a few lines back. A heroine is pressed against a closet door that suddenly transmorphs into a shower wall. In Emily Henry’s early drafts, articles of clothing – a bra, a sundress – are clumsily removed more than once. ![]() ![]() “Stop allowing your mind to be a slave, to be jerked about by selfish impulses, to kick against fate and the present, and to mistrust the future.”.But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own-not of the same blood or birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. They are like this because they can’t tell good from evil. “When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly.You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.Realize this, and you will find strength. You have power over your mind-not outside events.Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. ![]() Detach from the things that are beyond your control and focus on your own will and perception.Serenity and ethical certainty come from within.Stoicism is as relevant today as it was when it was first recorded. ![]() |