"Mr Wegg, if you was brought here loose in a bag to be articulated, I'd name your smallest bones blindfold equally with your largest, as fast as I could pick 'em out, and I'd sort 'em all, and sort your vertebrae, in a manner that would equally surprise and charm you." - Mr. Venus, Articulator - from the book Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
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Artist's notes: For those of you who asked I finish this after seeing it floundering in my "Boneyard" - here 'tis. The Articulator is one of my favorite Dickens characters, and I could think of nothing better to call this peculiar bird, than that.
What a perfect head for the top hat to sit on! BRAVO!
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He's one of my favorite characters too--what an artist, that Dickens was! (And this is PERFECT!!! )
-- I mean by a picture, a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be, in a light better than any light that ever shone, in a land no one can define or remember, only desire & the forms divinely beautiful. --E Burne-Jones
Dickens is just so wonderful. One of the biggest thrills my husband and I had when we went to England, was actually getting to tour through one of his old houses, which is now the Charles Dickens Museum. We both love his writing equally, and often quote from his novels. This line that the Articulator says about sorting the bones....it just slays me every time. lol
Thank you!!!
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"Optimism is a revolutionary act..." - Lloyd Dobbler, Say Anything Best scene ever: [link]
I know what you mean! Two of my favorite quotations are by Dickens, and about him. The first, is from Great Expectations: "We at the whole of the toast, and drank tea in proportion, and it was delightful to see how warm and greasy we all got after it. The Aged especially, might have passed for some clean old chief of a savage tribe, just oiled." (Love that. LOVE it. Love Wemmick and his "postage box" mouth...and his sly courtship of Miss Skiffins...)
And the other is about Dickens--by Robert Louis Stevenson: "Oh what a jolly thing it is for a man to have written books like these books, and just filled people's hearts with a desire to do good!"
I envy you your tour of one of his old houses! That must've been wonderful!
BTW...if you like Dickens, and haven't stumbled on it before, see if you can find an old copy of "A Child's Journey with Dickens", by Kate Douglas Wiggin. (Author of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, and many other, even better, children's books...) It's very short...but is all about her meeting him, on a train, as a young girl, and his conversation with her. It's absolutely enchanting. (I found my copy--which I loaned out, and was never returned, sadly--on eBay, but it took me about a year of searching, to get it at a price I could afford. It's not often for sale at a reasonable price.)
-- I mean by a picture, a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be, in a light better than any light that ever shone, in a land no one can define or remember, only desire & the forms divinely beautiful. --E Burne-Jones
Wonderful use of your photography, an amazingly imaginative work.
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And as he spoke I felt a deep desire To free the world of its fear and pain And help the people to feel free again. From The Wizard" by Hensley/Clark (Uriah Heep)
Ah, wonderful! My first thought on looking at this piece was to wonder whether it was from a fairy tale. Beautiful textures and colors, just wonderful aged appearance!
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I mean by a picture, a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be, in a light better than
any light that ever shone, in a land no one can define or remember, only desire & the forms divinely beautiful.
--E Burne-Jones
Thank you!!!
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"Optimism is a revolutionary act..." - Lloyd Dobbler, Say Anything
Best scene ever: [link]
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And the other is about Dickens--by Robert Louis Stevenson: "Oh what a jolly thing it is for a man to have written books like these books, and just filled people's hearts with a desire to do good!"
I envy you your tour of one of his old houses! That must've been wonderful!
BTW...if you like Dickens, and haven't stumbled on it before, see if you can find an old copy of "A Child's Journey with Dickens", by Kate Douglas Wiggin. (Author of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, and many other, even better, children's books...) It's very short...but is all about her meeting him, on a train, as a young girl, and his conversation with her. It's absolutely enchanting.
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I mean by a picture, a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be, in a light better than
any light that ever shone, in a land no one can define or remember, only desire & the forms divinely beautiful.
--E Burne-Jones
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~kill the king when love is the law~
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And as he spoke I felt a deep desire
To free the world of its fear and pain
And help the people to feel free again. From The Wizard" by Hensley/Clark (Uriah Heep)
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