A book that touched me deeply this March was Balzac’s “Eugenie Grandet” as you could have read about in my previous post. I also enjoyed Mason Currey’s book “Daily Rituals – How Artists Work” which I might write about on some other occassion… I am nearly finished with two other interesting books; Ernest Hemingway’s “A Moveable Feast” and a book which I have been wanting to read for years and it is Jean Nathan’s “The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll” which is a biography on Dare Wright, a strange and whimsical photographer, model and children’s book author famous for her 1957 children’s book “The Lonely Doll” and I have included some of her doll-photography in the post. The theme of indolence and the joy of the arrival of spring were my main themes for March.
“When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.”
(Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast)
“And now it’s spring, so my ideas are always so nice, sharp, inventive, and the dreams I have are tender; everything is rose-coloured.”
(Fyodor Dostoevsky, Poor People)
“In the life of the soul, as in the physical life, there is an inspiration and a respiration; the soul needs to absorb the sentiments of another soul and assimilate them, that it may render them back enriched. Were it not for this glorious human phenomenon, there would be no life for the heart…”
(Balzac, Eugenie Grandet)
“She was a pixie, a fairy, full of imagination and in another world.”
(Jean Nathan – The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll)
March 1997. ‘Romantic dresses, cute guys in tuxes and a walk through the city at dusk. Does it get any more glam than this?’
Night Fragments by Jana Sojka.
by teresacfreitas.
by teresacfreitas.
Moon Landscapes, Spring, by Jana Sojka.
Misty mountain, Mount Yoshino, Nara, Japan. Picture found here.
Japan: Cherry blossoms in full bloom at Mount Yoshino, Nara. Picture found here.
Picture found here.
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