starisea

Some of the best advice I've gotten for a while came from a book (surprise!)... In The Better World Handbook, the authors list hundreds upon hundreds of remarkable changes one can affect on their local and global environments. The most important thing I got from that book was the warning that I (the reader), now armed to the teeth with positive change, am not responsible for changing the world.

It's like the alcoholic's creed (if I remember it correctly): "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom the know the difference."

I'm torn a couple of different ways... I like one of Mucha's panels from the Seasons poster series he painted. I also like some of Aubrey Beardsley's illustrations for an edition of Le Morte d'Arthur. I think the one in the lead is remarkably flourished thistle plant...I think it'd be a nice compliment to a lot of Eeyore-isms about myself I care for. So much time, not enough money!

I'm very in favor of "Summer"...being born mid-summer's eve just clinches it.

Just in case you were wondering if anyone was reading along.

Very nice prose.

*glancing at your movie faves* I'm the only person I know who has had good things to say about 'Dead Man.' Everyone else I know hated it. What a dreamy ride that was, wasn't it?

I wouldn't worry about Paradise Lost. It's got a bad rep from the thousands of high school students who were made to suffer through it at age 17, when they were manifestly unable to either understand the themes or able to catch any of the references. Reading it with some education and experience behind you...you should have no problem (I feel the same way about most of Dostoyevsky's work as well, especially The Brothers Karamazov). As a writer, I think you'll appreciate and enjoy Milton. He has a pretty distinctive sensibility that I think a lot of writers share.

Ah yes. Echo. *dreaming on*

Ah, I didn't notice Sandman on your list when I glanced at it last time. I've been carrying the torch for comics as a legitimate art form for a while now. Magneto keeps foiling by brilliant arguments, though.

Anyway, glad to hear from a fellow writer and lover of all things books. What interesting books do you have in your collection?