#150: Shakespeare’s Pupper
‘Thou callest me a dog before thou hast cause. But since I am a dog, beware my fangs.’ – William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
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#148: Summer in the park
‘And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.’ – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
#147: Beetle
‘Ladybird, ladybird fly away home, Your house is on fire and your children are gone. All except one, And her name is Ann, And she hid under the baking pan.’ – traditional nursery rhyme Until I searched on Wikipedia, I had no idea this had a second verse. It’s quite strange…
#144: Legs
‘He always thought a muse should be sex on legs.’ – Lauren Beukes, Broken Monsters
#141: Industry
‘There are hundreds of miracles within a single machine…We see the beauty of combining gas, grease and steel into a powerful, exact movement. We appreciate the material destiny of the universe.’ – Warren Eyster, The Goblins of Eros
#138: Reflection
‘When we look in the mirror what we see is a version of who we imagine we are.’ – Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love
#137: How to be ‘Chap’
‘I know these sorts of people. They’re not men. They’re mustaches with idiots attached.’ – Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers In Foyles…
#135: Break time
‘Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.’ – John Lubbock, The Use Of Life This almost makes up for being at work… Continue reading #135: Break time
#133: Dark circus
‘Damn everything but the circus!. . .The average ‘painter’ ‘sculptor’ ‘poet’ ‘composer’ ‘playwright’ is a person who cannot leap through a hoop from the back of a galloping horse, make people laugh with a clown’s mouth, orchestrate twenty lions.’ – E.E. Cummings
#126: Daisy
‘Spring is the time of plans and projects.’ – Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina