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Influential children’s book author and illustrator Maurice Sendak, creator of Where the Wild Things Are, has died.
You can find his obituary on the New York Times. Do yourself a favor and watch his interview on the Colbert Report, he was a witty, delightful curmudgeon up until his last days.
(Maurice Sendak 1928 - 2012)
:-(
Currently writing a term paper on eighteenth century costumes in Disney’s The Beauty and the Beast (1991) when I noticed this little Easter Egg.
On left: close-up screen cap from The Beauty and the Beast (1991)
On right: Johannes Vermeer, Girl with a Pearl Earring, 1667, Oil on Canvas!!!
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To An Athlete Dying Young
THE TIME you won your town the race
We chaired you through the market-place;
Man and boy stood cheering by,
And home we brought you shoulder-high.
To-day, the road all runners come,
Shoulder-high we bring you home,
And set you at your threshold down,
Townsman of a stiller town.
Smart lad, to slip betimes away
From fields where glory does not stay
And early though the laurel grows
It withers quicker than the rose.
Eyes the shady night has shut
Cannot see the record cut,
And silence sounds no worse than cheers
After earth has stopped the ears:
Now you will not swell the rout
Of lads that wore their honours out,
Runners whom renown outran
And the name died before the man.
So set, before its echoes fade,
The fleet foot on the sill of shade,
And hold to the low lintel up
The still-defended challenge-cup.
And round that early-laurelled head
Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead,
And find unwithered on its curls
The garland briefer than a girl’s.
- A. E. Housman
(Source: www3.amherst.edu)
T: November 1, 1979 - January 31, 1980
B: November 1, 2011 - January 31, 2012
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Looking as if it fell from the sky, a 40-ton erratic stands on the Colville Indian Reservation in Washington State. Such boulders are sometimes called rubbing stones because bison scratched up against them. Photo: Fritz Hoffmann
