Lionblaze with the Power of Three sword that vanquishes the dark forest spirits
Mozu: 名古屋展 (2021)
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Cute beyond reason @_@
THE LITTLE SEA MAID. Interior illustration by Harry Clarke for Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen, 1916.
No author should ever hate libraries.
You borrow the book. You like it. You want to buy it for yourself, so you don’t have to keep borrowing it every month. And then you check out their other work more.
As a reader, this has happened to me more than once.
Libraries are where I get books I’d like to read but don’t want to own.
Libraries are where I get books I might want to own but don’t want to buy sight-unseen (seeing and flipping through a book involves going to the next big town over; the one in our small town was flooded out, lost all its stock and never came back).
Libraries are where I do research in the big encyclopaedias I don’t have in the house.
Libraries are where @dduane and I pass on unwanted presents (we used to get cookbooks for birthdays and Christmas that were full of pretty pictures and the sort of recipe you’d never bother making at home) or books bought because they seemed a good idea at the time and become less so as more time goes by.
As for our own books - I don’t know about the US or Irish library systems and certainly I’ve never seen a payment from either - when they’re held and loaned out by the UK library system, each loan generates a tiny fee. Once the accumulation is big enough (>STG £100.00 IIRC) a cheque will arrive unexpectedly, good for a night out, a bill paid, or an order of groceries. As the song says “Money for nothing and the chicks are free.” Well, not chicks (DD wouldn’t approve) but chicken, wine, pasta, vegetables…
As for secondhand bookshops… Oh yes please. I don’t mind finding my own books there (I’ve twice filled a hole created by giving away too many copies of a particular edition and discovering I left none left for myself) because I also find books from my childhood, long lost and often long out of print, and books I’ve never heard of which are just what I want right then…
There’s a small town on the Welsh Borders called Hay-on-Wye, full of second-hand bookshops. It has pubs where you can stay. It has a castle with a 24-hour honesty bookshelf against the wall (take a book, leave payment in the box). It’s great.
I love Hay-on-Wye SO much.
Last time we were there, the trunk was so full of so many books that we nearly destroyed the shocks on the car. :)
highlyentropicmind asked:
Some of your books make it seems like you believe in actual literal magic, do you? ()
neil-gaiman answered:
I can write down a few words and make people thousands of miles away, whom I have never met and will never meet, laugh tears of joy and cry tears of true sorrow for people who do not exist and have never existed and never will exist. If that isn’t actual literal magic I don’t know what is.
3 piece of art works from My good friend and great teacher of fine art in Taiwan. A contemporary female artist - Chu Lily (朱麗麗) who is active in Spain and China too, she once lived and taught art in Spain. I adore her. She is also one of my clients of my leather fine crafts. 😉 Lan~*
▪︎ Artist：朱麗麗 Chu Lily, Taiwanese
El Titulo: 新潮女人/ Las mujeres modernas, 2020
Tecnica : 彩墨混合技法/ Técnica mixta con tinta china
79 x 110 cm
📌 這幅畫作現在歸屬她我的西班牙摯友 Fernando de Saavedra 所收藏，SEK 教育機構校長和 Camilo José Cela 大學校長(以西班牙獲諾貝爾獎大文豪名子 Camilo José Cela 命名，西班牙辦學卓越的知名大學)
Esta obra hice en el año pasado, el año 2020, ahora pertenece la mano de mi gran y más querido amigo español Fernando de Saavedra, El Director de Gabinete de Presidencia de la Institución Educativa SEK y del rectorado de la Universidad Camilo José Cela. (text by artist - Chu Lily 朱麗麗)
▪︎ Artist：朱麗麗 Chu Lily, Taiwanese
Title ： 素人藝術家 林淵 畫像, 1992.
粉彩畫50 x 65 .cm
▪︎ Artist：朱麗麗 Chu Lily, Taiwanese
Title：印度聖憎 RATASOAMI, 1989.
粉彩畫 50 x 65 .cm
收藏者／collector：印度富豪 RATASOAMI 弟子
I love that too piece 💕
