
Bird portraits. 1901. Cover detail. Ernest Seton-Thompson, illus.
Since you walked out on me / I’m getting lovelier by the hour.
John Galliano for Christian Dior Haute Couture F/W 2009.
Symphony of Pink Beauty!
— VERGIL, AENEID VII.312
Gold gloss, 2015
A sane being would have given up, but Samwise burned with a magnificent madness, a glowing obsession to surmount every obstacle, to find Frodo, destroy the Ring, and cleanse Middle Earth of its festering malignancy. He knew he would try again. Fail, perhaps. And try once more. A thousand, thousand times if need be, but he would not give up the quest.