A critical edition of a book is a regular edition of the book itself with scholarly responses to it and other information useful to better understanding the text. Thanks to a critical edition of Great Expectations I learn what a “miniature windmill” really is.
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Day/Page/Sketch #37
“If you’re gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.”
― Marilyn Monroe
Day/Page/Sketch #36
“You’re A Vegetable, You’re A Vegetable
Still They Hate You, You’re A Vegetable
You’re Just A Buffet, You’re A Vegetable
They Eat Off Of You, You’re A Vegetable”
Day/Page/Sketch #35
Shouting in the Dark is a book of John Bramblitt’s life, his struggles with epilepsy, his race against time as he prepares for complete vision loss, and his determination to find a way out of the engulfing shadows of blindness. It is the story of how he rekindles his capacity for joy, hope, and relationships through painting and teaching art. the book challenges you to rethink your perception of blindness and what it means to truly see.
Day/Page/Sketch #34
An imp is a mythological being similar to a fairy or demon. Imps are usually small and not very attractive. They are often mischievous rather than evil or harmful, much the same as fairies. In fact, they both share the same sense of free spirit and enjoyment of all things fun. Imps are lonely little creatures always in search of human attention.
Day/Page/Sketch #33
I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
The bright sun was extinguish’d, and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space,
Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth
Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air.
Day/Page/Sketch #32
The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism is a fictional book in George Orwell’s 1984 novel. The Book explains the concept of perpetual war, and the true meanings of the slogans WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, and IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. Wait, shouldn’t the second slogan haven been SLAVERY IS FREEDOM instead?
Day/Page/Sketch #31
Get things out the door and off into the wider world. Stop pushing yourself so hard. Go with the flow and trust where the current of life takes you. If you let go now, there is no turning back.
Day/Page/Sketch #30
Question to Jockum Nordström: Do you always complete the work you start, or do you sometimes leave work unfinished?
I think you’re in good shape when you have a lot of things unfinished. That way there is always room to go on with your work, somewhere to take off from. Still, I can’t leave a project before it has a little bit of a soul. It must have a soul before I leave it alone.
Day/Page/Sketch #29
“Porky pie” in British English means a trivial lie, like in “he told a porky pie about eating his spinach.” Somehow I thought “porky pie” meant something else.
Day/Page/Sketch #28
I am a teetotaler. I really don’t know how I came to be one. I think it was a natural development. I didn’t know this had a label, though. I learned about it watching Downton Abbey. I guess everything has a label these days.
Day/Page/Sketch #27
I have an unpleasant memory as a kid of a family member that tried to force me to eat sardines, and the more she tried, the less I wanted anything to do with them. She was, in fact, bulling me to cave to her commands. It was awful.
Day/Page/Sketch #26
“When I eat cake, I prefer the cherry.”
The Havisham Hour 