"He taught him horsemanship, archery and how to wield lasso, rein and stirrup, and what and when and how, the rites of of convivial society, of formal ceremony and the symposium; hawking, falconry and how to hunt with the cheetah; what was justice or the lack of it; what the throne and the crown meant; how to deliver orations and how to go to war and lead an army."
The Shahnameh (courtesy of R.A.W.)
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Lawrence's bookplate
.... free- associating here, for Pluvi: my almost accidentally acquired rebound copy of Norman Douglas's Together, from T.E.L.'s library. I picked it up in Berkeley 20 years ago for nothing; when I pointed at the plate and asked why so cheap, the clerk replied that I was the first person in five years to notice... in Berkeley! But then I also picked up a Leigh Fermor first with a dj there for $20, an early Voyage of the Beagle, and the only Linsenmaeier Insects I have ever seen for sale, all the same day...
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I was blown away the first time you showed that to me
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