Monday Artday: Friendship.

Act V, Scene VII, Line 136

"Her beauty makes

This vault a feasting presence full of light."






"The Invasion Of The Seven Paratroopers of Hell"

Well, you know......

Those times you open up a 'crappy' paperback that you found in that old cardboard box that used to belong to your aunty? And the paperback is all yellowed and cracked across the spine; and it's original price was one and ninepence; and in the frontispiece there is a quote from a 'well known literary personalty'.

And the quote is something like : "And the loaves and the fishes and, even the goldfish, blew down the backyard that chilly autumn afternoon, a dark omen of things to come, in the days before winter, just before the war that would destroy the entire universe and make everyone, even the local fish and chip shop owners, very, very unhappy...."  (Warwick Walden the Fourth Earl Of Tuddelsford.)

And you think, "hey this book sounds good," because you think, "hey, hey, hey! Warwick Walden the Fourth is being quoted on the frontispiece, so the paperback must be alright.... mustn't it?"

So you pack The Invasion Of The Seven Paratroopers of Hell in your bag for something to read at the aero-port.

 Unfortunately, at the aero-port, not only do you discover that your plane has been cancelled for nine hours because of a lock in the right manilfold engined-wart (or so a passing 'hostie' informs you), but you also discover, when you finally crack open the paperback, not only that the writer cannot write, that he is actually a master of the dronglebottom sentence.

Of course, as we all know, a dronglebottom sentence, is the sentence that never ends, yet never starts, yet seems to have no subject, yet dwells on the passive tense, as if being passive were the most important thing in the known universe bar breathing. Yet....

Hmm...

Well, getting back to the Warwick Walden the Fourth quote.

It's a well known fact that, throwing in a twist of Shakespeare, or Walden, or Thackery at the beginning of a book gives you something called 'resonance'.
Having an important sounding quote on the frontispiece, is like standing next to the last Pope at a public gathering. Being associated with the quote (or the Pope) makes you look important - especially if you are a pseudo literary type.

So what's this have to do with the Pope?

Well, I think you already guessed.....

For my illustration for Monday Artday "Friendship", I thought I would throw in some resonance. So, in the manner of the best pseudo literary types I googled Shakespeare. (thankfully the chap who invented "Google' didn't call it 'Goose' or , even worse, 'Roger')

Well.... specifically I yahooed 'Love's Labours Lost' - because I thought, now, "Loves Labours Lost", that's a kind of morbid title, seems sad, yet happy, yet morose. I wanted to show the boy in my picture with his girl on one panel, and then that same boy without the girl on the next. The idea being that the loss of love, or friendship just underlines how valuable love and friendship really is to the human psyche.

But unfortunately I couldn't find anything at all on "Loves Labours Lost' that seemed remotely usable.

So the above quote about 'feasting presence' isn't from LLL at all.

In the end I had to settle for something short and sweet from that sissy play: 'Romeo and Juliette'.... Her beauty makes, This vault a feasting presence full of light.

Well, you have to admit, it sounds pretty good. I mean it had the word 'light' in it, and so did my picture - which was lucky. So, today's resonance comes courtesy of Will Shakespeare, penman extra-ordinaire, but a bit of a sissy play writer.....

 

And you'll also be pleased to know, I was lucky enough to find a quote about 'boxes' as well. You never know when you are going to need a good 'box' quote, do you?

Thankyou for looking.

By the way, as this post is about "Friendship', I'd like to dedicate it to all my friends here. Thankyou for visiting - again :)

 

Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!

(Ah, at last, the promised box quote:) 'A beggarly account of empty boxes.'