Alison Jaye 📚

Have Mercy. “Her face will never be her fortune.” #anthonypowelltogether

Echo of Virginia Woolf? “a sister of Bracey’s said to have been drowned in the Thames estuary.”#anthonypowelltogether

Dedicated to R.W.K.C. #anthonypowelltogether search.app/p3kzZu4QuFYGhE…

The Kindly Ones (TKO) begins with young Jenkins helping Albert lock-up for the night. Jenkins examines “a coloured picture, fastened to the wall by four rusting… Source: Pictures in Powell #anthonypowelltogether search.app/LNZfB3b2vt5ftD…

Last volume: When Nick returns to Stourwater with Templer, the “exuberant” jumble of the decorations impresses him more favorably than it had on his earlier visit with the W… Source: Pictures in Powell #anthonypowelltogether search.app/heziu2RMbBEFh8…

Last volume: Nick muses on both the likely and unlikely aspects of his friendship with Moreland.  A list of their shared childhood prejudices makes it seem as if they had kn… Source: Pictures in Powell #anthonypowelltogether search.app/dTSrq491H7YJgF…

“My king! My Jove I speak to thee, my heart!” #henryivpart2

“Do nothing but eat, and make good cheer, And praise heaven for a merry year” #henryivpart2

“There is my hand; You shall be as a father to my youth” Henry 2.0 #henryivpart2

“O, thou wilt be a wilderness again, Peopled with wolves, thy old inhabitants!” Plus ca change. #henryivpart2

Some pics from the last few days. #HenryIVpart2

Moreland is talking to Maclintick, who is drunk and depressed. Maclintick is bemoaning how his wife Audrey treats him; Moreland sees a parallel: “It wasn’t for … Source: Pictures in Powell #anthonypowelltogether search.app/ASbmjHUKmevJ93…

We will mention some references to art movements in CCR almost as briefly as Powell does. Stringham refers to his former sister-in-law Anne Stepney “chattering … Source: Pictures in Powell #anthonypowelltogether search.app/RqsrJ8PqEcKqkw…

Families and their rival salons! #anthonypowelltogether

Widow’s cruse: a seemingly endless or unfailing source of supply. It comes from the Bible story in 1 Kings 17:8–16, where a widow's cruse of oil miraculously supplies Elijah during a famine. For those, like me, bad with biblical references. #anthonypowelltogether

“A peace is of the nature of a conquest; For then both parties nobly are subdued, And neither party loser.” Act IV, Sc 2 #henryivpart2

“The feeling you get then, when for the first time in a long while the world shines brightly again.” Now, especially, we need good books! Just bought the Lydia Davis translation. #knausgaardtogethertheseasons

Jenkins reflected after St. John Clarke’s death: “If so tortuous a comparison of mediocre talent could ever be resolved, St John Clarke was probably to be judge… Source: Pictures in Powell #anthonypowelltogether search.app/6459KBpQ6kLabi…

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. nytimes.com/2024/11/07/boo…