A lovely friend brought this beautiful book for me to look at tonight. It's full of drawings and verse, and is a garden of ideas in itself. It is an illustrated and interpreted version of Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat. The drawings are by Elihu Vedder and the verse by Edward FitzGerald. One of the pieces that I like very much is this one of the Fates, who have decided to yank their tapestry down from the sky.
Maybe I'll give the three girls floating above the bench a needle and thread, a ruler and a pair of scissors. Then they can make something nice for me.
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