I have such vivid memories of those Evaline Ness covers and illustrations.
I have four out of five first editions with her covers and one supplemental reprint. spatch and I were comparing notes on the mass-market paperbacks we encountered as a child and how we feel about their assorted covers. I have mixed feelings about all of them, but I can deal with Jody Lee's The High King. (Even if her Fflewddur looks significantly classier than he does textually.)
The story of Dalben was my first experience of the trope of knowledge aging you like that.
It's a powerful image. This time around, I couldn't help noticing that the truthful harp gets its first string-snapping workout every time Fflewddur downplays something he's done and I felt . . . attacked?
Every time I shared a touchstone, I felt like I was doing one of my great jobs in this life. When I got all of them shared, I felt almost like, well, my work here is now done.
The good news is, there are always new things to share. [edit] "Indeed, the more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts."
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I have four out of five first editions with her covers and one supplemental reprint.
The story of Dalben was my first experience of the trope of knowledge aging you like that.
It's a powerful image. This time around, I couldn't help noticing that the truthful harp gets its first string-snapping workout every time Fflewddur downplays something he's done and I felt . . . attacked?
Every time I shared a touchstone, I felt like I was doing one of my great jobs in this life. When I got all of them shared, I felt almost like, well, my work here is now done.
The good news is, there are always new things to share. [edit] "Indeed, the more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts."