Antique Books

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That's great!

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donnie wrote:
Sat Jan 27, 2018 8:21 pm
That's great!
Thank you! The zebra picture is especially hilarious.
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I am positively giddy, and I'll tell you why --- my Book of Wonders has a full 8 pages all about the moving picture!!!
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Oh man, that is cool! Image Thanks for the photos—looking forward to reading this.

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I haven't read it yet, either. Do you know who the first lady is offhand? The other two are John Bunny and Lillian Walker. I have the last picture as my Twitter avatar! ☺️
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Kitty wrote:
Sun Jan 28, 2018 11:10 am
I haven't read it yet, either. Do you know who the first lady is offhand? The other two are John Bunny and Lillian Walker. I have the last picture as my Twitter avatar! ☺️
No, I’m not sure who that is, though she seems vaguely familiar.

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"Sauntering across this bridge, one passes, on his way to Uffizi, various shops in narrow streets, where the sold off Florentine manufacture are displayed. Such pretty silks, dear girls, and so cheap! For a mere song you may go dressed like the butterflies, in Florence, clad in bright, sheeny raiment, spun by native worms out of native mulberry leaves. Equally cheap are the cameos, and the coral, that are brought here from neighboring Naples, and the turquoises, imported directly from the Eastern market, and the mosaics, inlaid of precious stones in Florence herself." - A Child of Florence

This book is so lovely! It makes me want to go there! I wonder if it's really as lovely as the book says it is? It's really a shame that there is no author.
You trying to tell me you didn't hear that shriek? That was something trying to get out of its premature grave, and I don't want to be here when it does. - Phantom of the Paradise (1974)

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That does sound so beautiful, doesn't it? How I'd like to be there... My wife was in Florence a couple of years ago and she thoroughly enjoyed it. I believe it was her favorite part of the trip she was on. But she did not go to the Uffizi. I criticized her severely for that!

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Honestly, I feel like a dunce to say that I have never even heard of Uffizi! Can you believe it? This book is the first I've heard of it.

I finished the book. It was not really a story, more a short grazing biography of a rich American who spent her childhood in Florence. More like what it was like to live in an artist's paradise. I was surprised, when I finished the book, that it was over.... there were still like 10 pages left at least! They were advertisements for other books that the publisher put out.
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I never looked in the back. A lot of books in that era had ads of that sort in the back, and sometimes they're very interesting.

I probably wouldn't know about Uffizi, either, except I used to have a strong interest in fine art—well, still do, though I don't look at paintings as much. But Uffizi is where there are a lot of famous works, including the Botticelli Birth of Venus.

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