NAPOLEON III, FLUID BEEF, THE HOLLOW EARTH AND BEAGLE FICTION
Or A Certain Concatenation of Concomitance (Or Convolutions of Coincidence, It All Depends)
In 1870, Napoleon III had a problem with Prussia.
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A BOOK LONG OVERDUE
JOSÉ SEGRELLES ILUSTRADOR UNIVERSAL
A year ago, we had the pleasure of visiting the José Segrelles Museum in Albaida, near Valencia. Since, I have had the honour and the pleasure of corresponding with the wonderfully enthusiastic people who look after it, so when they asked if I might be willing to write a foreword for a new book of Segrelles’ art, I replied yes the instant I received the e-mail.
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PRETTY AS A PICTURE
Or the Capital P on Picturesque
Having always thought that picturesque was just another adjective favoured by my grandmother’s generation, it was with some surprise when the other day I stumbled on Picturesque.
With a capital P.
(Such was my Surprise it deserves a capital S. Just goes to show that while we figuratively tack and veer, each happy captains of our own HMS General Culture bound for far ports of call, thankfully we need not set out to sea in them physically. I for one would have sunk long ago.)
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