References-1
Most of the citations in this webpage either
came from, or were verified in,
The
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, Second Edition, 1955 (ODQ). But even then,
it's usually necessary to
ascertain what exactly comes before and after a relevant
line. 'My boat sails freely, both with wind and
stream,' (Othello, II iii [66]),
[ODQ Page 471 : 8] seems an attractive
metaphor, if you aren't aware that it is spoken by Iago.
A better scholar than I would have known that, of
course, without requiring a trip through William
Shakespeare, The Complete Works, thus depriving him-
or herself of a fair amount of idle pleasure.
A more relevant example is the Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotation from
Definitions, 'I am the owner of
the sphere, of the seven stars and the solar year ...' [ODQ 199 : 2],
which seems vainglorious boasting until a wider reading
(ESSAY
I, History, published 1841), suggests that History in all its
encyclopaedic complexity is drawing a self-portrait in particularly beautiful and
eloquent lines.
For light reading I much enjoy a book intended mainly for young people entitled
A New
Treasury of Poetry, 1990 (NTP), compiled by Neil Philip and illustrated
magnificently by John Lawrence with what appear to be woodcuts strongly
reminiscent of the art of Gustave Doré. Like Doré, each
black and white picture is specific to its subject and nothing else. And
lack of indexing means the book is picked up and read at random —
not a bad way at all to absorb poetry.
My source for most other verifications was almost always
Wikipedia, by way of
Google.ca, English and French.
Am I the only person who believes that unlike Google,
which had to wait a year or two to dislodge the competition,
Wikipedia was announced and became indispensable at one and the same time?
- Left Column Quotation – Time goes, you say? ... Henry Austin Dobson
The Paradox of Time [ODQ 183 : 15 ]
- Page Content:–
Second paragraph of text:–
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... should love one bright
particular star ...
Hubble Footer [all Pages]:–
- Finding one bright
particular star
- Source:–
It were all one
That I should love a bright particular star
And think to wed it, he is so above me.
William Shakespeare
All's
Well That Ends Well [ODQ 423 : 2]
- I admit to owning three copies of
Gerald Levin's
Prose Models; the First Edition (1964), Second (1970), and Seventh
(1987), the last defining illustrative analogy [Page 256] as quoted
in my said Sandsifter Five Main or Index Page.
I don't suppose there is a more forceful example readily available
in literature than
Liane
Ellison Norman's Pedestrian Students and High-Flying Squirrels,
Page 458 of the Seventh Edition, even if that essay has been included
in Levin's textbook under Effective Diction, and Tone,
rather than analogy.
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Quelques mots pour visiteurs de La Belle Province
- Left Column Quotation:–
L'oiseau qui chante ...
Proverbe polynésian
- Picture References:–
Saint Laurence/Lawrence. Archdeacon of
Rome, patron of chefs, comics, deacons, archives, libraries,
poor people, and butchers. Roman authorities alerted him
that his execution would be in four days whereupon Saint
Laurence/Lawrence dispersed the material wealth of the church
so that those authorities couldn't get their hands
on it.
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When the Roman authorities called him for execution he was
commanded to bring the wealth of the church and responded by bringing
the poor and crippled of Rome whom he claimed were the true treasure of
the Church.
- How this story must have amused québecois,
with their often sardonic sense of humour and propensity for
defiance by seeming compliance. Small wonder so many important
landmarks are named for him:– St. Lawrence River,
Borough (formerly City) of Saint-Laurent, St. Lawrence Choir
which often sings with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, and many other
references.
-
Saint Laurence/Lawrence was martyred by being cooked to
death on a gridiron. St. Laurence/Lawrence's feast day is August 10th.
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NB verify source – Wikipedia?
- Page Content:–
— Dany Laferrière, Prix Medicis;
— Gino Quilico and Louis Quilico and our VCR taping of Mozart's Don Giovanni;
— Garou;
— Denys Arcand, 'Réjeanne Padovani';
— 'La guerre des tuques', unthinkable freedom of children of my generation;
— Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, 'Les noces de Figaro';
— Childhood memories – Stéphane Laporte, Mordecai Richler,
contributor to Suburban and my theory that only in our childhood memories are we
truly honest ;
— And finally, inexplicably, the Camus quotation originally chosen for the
Quelques Mots webpage, a
phrase that appears to respond to a deep need in the English-speaking soul:–
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely
to be normal.
- Not a well-known quotation in the original French, it seem.
But why not?
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- Left Column Quotation:– Ralph Waldo Emerson's The
Absorbing Soul cited in second paragraph above.
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- Left Column Quotation:– William the First was
the first of our kings ... Eleanor and Herbert Farjeon, William I
[New Treasury of Poetry, NTP Pages 52/53 plus comical illustrations.]
- Left Column Quotation:– ... Poor men have grown to be rich men ...
W.B. Yeats, Running to Paradise
[NTP Page 51 plus vertical strip decorations, both different.]
- Left Column Quotation:– Mais où sont les
neiges d'antan ... But where are the snows of yesteryear. François
Villon, Le grand testament .../Dante Gabriel Rosetti [ODQ 553 : 3]
- Page Content:– I've mentioned before that webpages
dealing with English are
not history — no dates to memorize, few place names, and little
analysis of political forces at play.
- 'English!' is a story in the sense that the five works under
study are stories, which is to say having its source in childhood Fairy Tale with
the transformatory journey that for me is the hallmark of Fairy Tale,
and adolescent Myth, a more static situation of coming to terms
with the consequences of that earlier journey.
- And as a story, there are no facts requiring verification,
no clarifications, and no justifications.
- The same is true of Judy Turner's webpage 1, which I
(mis)appropriated in order to include certain personal information,
in the form of stories that don't belong in the website's main pages.
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- Left Column Quotation:– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Perfection not when nothing
left to add but when nothing left to take away.
- Page Content:– Pictures worth a thousand words
... so they say
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- Left Column Quotation:– John Ruskin,
Books are divisible into two classes ... [ODQ 413 : 2]
- Page Content:– '... Author
Philip K. Dick visualized his detective hero flying
about in what is described as ... the
department's beefed-up hovercar ...'
- Source:— Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick, 1968, ISBN 0-345-35047-2
Chapter Eight, paragraph 1;
- 'Having stuffed the onionskin carbons in his
briefcase' ...
Ibid, final paragraph in first
section of Chapter Eight
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- Left Column Quotations Hazlitt:–
So I have loitered my life away ... [ ODQ 240 : 13 ]
Well, I've had a happy life. [ ODQ 240 : 14 ]
- Page Content
Peter Norton — books on DOS, on computers [The Hard Disk Companion], on hexadecimal
notation, Norton Utilities ,
and Norton ?? name of software that organized DOS and made it
usable
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- The title 'References' seems to call for illustrations from
Museums, not in the sense of dusty tedious exposition but exciting new
discovery, such as experienced by the budding scientists searching for
fossils on the stone walls of 14 Montreal buildings courtesy of
McGill's Redpath
Museum Fossil Hunt, or by the internaut clicking 'enlarge
image' for Gustave Doré's painting The Neophyte
found in the Chrysler
Museum of Art's Online Collection, which brings
the overwhelmed young man to vibrant life. I once met the eyes
of a man being brought into the underground garage of the courthouse
on Saint-Antoine Street as we left the Archives section,
and Doré has captured to perfection that air of appalled
comprehension.
- I must admit that in composing these webpages I feel strong
identification with the subjects of Doré's painting, an empathy
that alternates between the youthful Novice, the close-reading ancient to his right,
and the deeply-meditating philosopher on his left.
- And then there is
Carl Spitzweg's The Bookworm, 1850. Like many
people I have a reproduction hanging in the home, in my case a
beautifully mounted copy given to my late mother-in-law. But
notwithstanding the perfection of that particular object I still believe
that reproductions are like translations: while the original work needs
only the occasional cleaning or reprinting to regain its innate lustrous
warmth, copies grow dark and muted and discoloured and become irretrievably
dated over time.
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Masthead
MMFA Composite
MMBA exhibits , Masthead MMFA
Composite – Left
Musée des Beaux-Arts Montréal – Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Pavillon Jean-Noel Desmarais
1380 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Masthead MMFA Composite –
Centre
1379 Sherbrooke Street West
with Jim Dine's Twin 6' Hearts, gift International Friends of the MMFA
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Masthead MMFA Composite – Right
The Lady of Shalott, John William Waterhouse
Waterhouse Collection Exhibition,
October 2,
2009 to February 7, 2010
Spring cleaning at the
Redpath Museum Left Column Top
Redpath Museum, 859 Sherbrooke Street West
also
What Building Stones Tell,
McGill's Redpath Museum Fossil Hunt,
The Bookworm, Carl Spitzweg, 1850
Left Column Bottom
Museum George Schaefer, Schweinfurt, Germany
Oil on canvas, 49.5 x 26.8 cm (19-1/2 x 10-1/s in)
Gustave Doré, The Neophyte ca 1866-1868, Page Content
Chrysler
Museum of Art, Gallery 205
click 'enlarge image' for otherworldly experience
Oil on canvas, 57-3/8 x 107-1/2 in, 145.7 x 273.1 cm
copyright Chrysler Museum of Art
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[Page amended February 18, 2013]
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