When i went away on my latest road trip along the US my friend Andre told me he would send me pictures everyday until my come back. He wouldn’t say a word on the pictures, what they were, where or why. He would just send them to me for me to make up the story.
Some of those pictures, basically all of them, were absolutely wonderful and inspiring, so much so that i pleaded him to keep up with the sending even if i was back. And he is been doing so. These are some of the latest.
Britain strict censorship laws made controversial D.H. Lawrence’s book Lady Chatterley’s Lover’s impossible to publish; as a result, the novel’s first publication had to be printed in Italy in 1928.
British publishers Penguin Books attempt to print the novel in 1960 shielded by the Obscene Publications Act of 1959 that claimed that an “obscene” fictional work could escape conviction if publishers could show that it was of literary merit.
During their trial the principal objection was the recurrent use of the words “fuck” and “cunt” along the novel.
Various academic critics including E. M. Forster (Howards End), Helen Gardner and Norman St John-Stevas were called as witnesses, and the verdict, delivered on 2 November 1960, was “not guilty”.
In the novel’s second edition, printed in 1961, the publishers added the dedication:
“For having published this book, Penguin Books were prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act, 1959 at the Old Bailey in London from 20 October to 2 November, 1960. This edition is therefore dedicated to the twelve jurors, three women and nine men, who returned a verdict of ‘Not Guilty’ and thus made D. H. Lawrence’s last novel available for the first time to the public in the United Kingdom.”
It hurts almost as much to muse upon pain as to endure it
— Cecil Beaton on the possibility of Nazi entering the city of London during the beginning of WWII in 1939.
The New York City Ballet
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Tchaikovsky - Sugar Plum Fairy
“from the Nutcracker, My Christmas Song”
Numbers 1 to 1(4) by my little brother Javi when he was 4 and learning how to write them.
Numbers 5, 7 and 12 (where he used the ending 1 from 11) are priceless.
I’m officially in my thirties,so let’s celebrate!!!
So LET’S START with your front door, which fulfills two purposes. It swings open to let you out into the world and to all sorts of thrilling adventures there. But also that same door opens in to permit the outside world (or as much as you choose) to come in, bringing friends, laughter, good times and the stimulus of new, inspiring ideas. […]
A great deal of fun can come in that friendly, open door. Fun is something all of us need, perhaps never more so than just now. And to have fun, or happiness if you like the word better, is very important in life -is the one fundamental- and only reason for entertaining at all.
—
Dorothy Draper.
Extract from her book Entertaining is Fun! (1941)
Deborah Turbeville
Ballet images bring me good memories. This is such a beautiful moment.
