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Jan Balet (1913-2009), ''Carnival Of The Animals'', 1964
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Jan Balet (1913-2009), ''Carnival Of The Animals'', 1964
The camel has a single hump; The dromedary , two; Or else the other way around. I'm never sure. Are you?
-Ogden Nash
A camel - dromedary? - hangs out in the bottom margin of f. 303r, Ms. Codex 724, a 13th century illuminated Bible #DrolleryDonnerstag
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With more than 900 illuminated manuscripts, 1,250 of the first printed books (ca. 1455 - 1500), and an important collection of post-1500 del
"For a happy marriage, whenever you're wrong, admit it; and whenever you're right, just shut up"
Ogden Nash
The Duck
by Ogden Nash
Behold the duck. It does not cluck. A cluck it lacks. It quacks. It is specially fond Of a puddle or pond. When it dines or sups, It bottoms ups.
Middle age is when you’ve met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
Ogden Nash, American poet, born today in 1902
from Edward Lear's The Scroobious Pip, as completed by Ogden Nash and illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert (1968)
"September is Summer, Too" by Ogden Nash, as it appeared in The New Yorker in 1944.
Photo: The New Yorker