#235: Rainbow [2]
‘Love was a feeling completely bound up with color, like thousands of rainbows superimposed one on top of the other.’ – Paulo Coelho
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#234: Kittens
‘I wanted to find a nice quiet spot, go to sleep, and dream about kittens.’ – John Corwin, Dark Light of Mine
#233: The Warren Cup
‘…like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance.’ – Homer, The Iliad One of my favourite exhibits in the British Museum, a first century AD silver cup called The Warren Cup…
#232: British Museum
‘And let thy feet millenniums hence be set in the midst of knowledge’ – Tennyson
#231: Forest
‘And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul’ – John Muir
#230: A walk in the woods
‘A great whispering noise began to rise in the woods on either side of the tracks, as if the forest had just noticed we were there and was commenting on it.’ – Stephen King, The Body
#229: Backseat driver
‘Back seat drivers don’t know the feel of the wheel but they sho’ know how to make a fuss’ – Bob Dylan/Bonnie Raitt, Let’s Keep It Between Us
#228: Wine merchants
‘Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection.’ – Ernest Hemingway
#226: Warning
‘Beware the Jabberwock, my son The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!’ – Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
#225: Blue skies
‘Blue skies Smiling at me Nothing but blue skies Do I see’ – Irving Berlin, Blue Skies