Candle #30

Candle #29

Old School

Great Dane

 

It's the birthday of writer Hans Christian Andersen, born in Odense, Denmark (1805).

Tell Tale Signs...

Best Selling Book 1969

 

 "A disorder in which strongly felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature..."

Please Plant This Book

 

"Please Plant This Book" was first distributed on 20th March 1968, 1st day of Spring festival in Golden Gate Park.

6000 copies were made, funded (approx $500) by band Mad River out of their advance from Capitol Records. Richard Brautigan had collaborated with them on spoken word/music tracks, also had helped feed and support them when they first moved to San Francisco and were broke and struggling.

Happy Birthday Richard Brautigan. He took his own life after giving it to us in his words.  

P.O.E.M.

 

Being a member of this prestigious group, I have added all the "I Read in a Book Somewhere", assorted "Words of Wisdom" and "Poet's Corner" of 2012 to the Pages in the Book behind the Mirror.

Madame Bovary

 

"Before she married, she thought she was in love; but the happiness that should have resulted from that love, somehow had not come.  It seemed to her that she must have made a mistake, have misunderstood in some way or another.  And Emma tried hard to discover what, precisely, it was in life that was denoted by the words 'joy, passion, intoxication', which had always looked so fine to her in books."   ~ Gustave Flaubert,  Madame Bovary

The Real Thing

 

No"On" Button.

So it goes...

"Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt."

Brave New World

"Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself from thinking." 
 Aldous Huxley

Le Petit Prince

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

Antoine De Saint Exupery  1900-1944

1984

First edition released on this day in 1949.

MaryJane meets Madeline

All little girls love Madeline.



Happy Birthday Jack

This book was written on a single scroll of paper 120 feet long.

The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster

When you take your pill

it's like a mine disaster.

I think of all the people

lost inside of you.

~ Richard Brautigan

"The Pill Verus the Springhill Mine Disaster"





In Memory 1935-1984