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T. H. White analyses Malory’s Lancelot. From Elizabeth Brewer’s book, p. 82/83.

#HELLO???????#INTERESTING............#TH and TE /just/ missed each other but skimming through the garnett-white letters and TH seems to have gotten to 'know' TE through garnett #and from that he seems to have been One Of Us #which i will try to not let color my reading but... unavoidable i think #th white: he's just like me FOR REAL #le morte d'arthur #th white #te

ANYWAY, outside of my very busy self-inflicted reading schedule I have been feeling the temptation for some colorwork knitting and have been browsing old filet lace books for inspo and just... Look At This Thing:

#a Creature if every i saw one

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The bugs' circle dance. Entomology in sport. 1859. Frontispiece.

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#yay!#illustration #weird #bugs #insects #queued

Firefox updated and now won't let me go on twitter to hate-read vampire tweets and honestly, A Blessing...I am Free.......

This is sending me (also a ridiculous decrease for a hat tbh)

#this is the decrease ratio i use for glove fingers and i fear i will always think like an onion forever now #reading the once and future king

It's a good thing I spent last week getting ahead on my (semi)arbitrary reading goals bc this book has timeliness going in opposite directions which is the saddest thing in the world To Me so every few pages I am just... blind with sadness, so the reading is a bit slow

#the last time i ever see you you dont know me..... [starts coughing up blood]#anyway i should rewatch tenet #reading the once and future king

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Clouds Hill Book Club 📚

Last year I decided to challenge myself to read every book read by TE Lawrence (yes ALL of them) partially bc I thought it would be fun and I love setting myself arbitrary enrichment tasks, partially to finally make it through Malory after years of failed attempts, and partially to put off reading The Mint for another decade or so.

Between books he mentions in letters and books at Clouds Hill I have a list of over 1400 books so far to read and I have read 38, currently reading no. 39.

It has been an interesting and rewarding experience so far and for this print I wanted to collect books that were particular favorites or of importance to TE throughout his life (an impossible task, he loved so many books and I have so many titles it pained me to not include) encircled by a wreath of rhododendron, tamarisk, and jasmine.

While he wrote many beautiful things about books and reading I chose this text (from a 1911 letter to Mrs. Rieder) bc I found it both endearing and relatable.

Long post, thank you for reading if you made it through. If you would indulge me a but longer I entreat you to go read something by Joseph Conrad, William Morris, or Siegfried Sassoon, three authors I read through this challenge and absolutely fell in love with.

Hand printed with Cranfield Safe Wash on Masa paper, 16x16 inches and as always you can follow my printmaking work here.

#queued reblog #queued

The Garnett's will see a weird and neurotic writer and be like 'is anybody gonna publish this guy' and then have to coax, corral, and cajole them into publishing... like some sort of Great Family Legacy

#admittedly many authors are a little weird and neurotic but the garnetts seem to have had a special talent with them #(them being bere white conrad and te though there are probably others im not thinking of)

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Peter O'Toole just arrived at the desert.

Lawrence of Arabia (1962) directed by David Lean

Peter O'Toole as T. E. Lawrence

#peter o'toole #lawrence of arabia #queued

The thing about watching this in my 30s is that every so often I am just like OH MY GOD THEY'RE JUST A BUNCH OF STUPID KIDS 😭😭😭😭😭

#i have more Thoughts on this but sometimes one of them will do something that is just So Young and it makes me want to start biting glass #watching merlin

Little herd of unicorn test prints... both a test of this carve and for its potential as a bigger, more detailed carve

I feel like the background needs something, stars or a tile pattern perhaps?

#but all that will have to wait bc a cat has taken up residence on my lap at the moment #wip #linoprint

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Comet of 1680. One card in a deck of 52 featuring celestial imagery. The four seasons correspond to suits in a regular deck with the yellow cards denoting Fall. Published by F.G. Moon, 1829.

David Rumsey Map Collection

#illustration #space #stars #comet #queued

The book in reach and while TE missed the original publication of the first book by I few years I obviously cannot help but wonder if he would have read it if he hadnt and what he would have thought of it, only to be met with my friend David Garnett upon opening it so I have to assume someone probably would have sent TE this book lol

#also is garnett like Known As A Critic??#or is this just two newspapers and some random guy's opinion to most readers?#i only know him through te #reading the once and future king #also skimming white's wiki page was uhhhhhh Interesting.....

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tumblr glitched and now there’s just a guy in the void

#yeah #me on here at 4am tbh #tumblr #queued

Already finished a book today but have been pinned down by cats so I guess I'll start another one instead of working on the printing I was planning to do lol

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The king and his hounds

#becket #queued

The thing about this show is that I don't really want to like Arthur, a) it really damages my anarchist cred and b) he genuinely sucks a lot of the time and not even in a fun way, but unfortunately he makes me feel very

for reasons I can't quite articulate...

#or perhaps shan't articulate... remains to be seen #watching merlin

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