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What fierce imaginings their dark souls lit
I have just acquired a biography of Isaac Rosenberg. Not counting classical sources like Plutarch and Suetonius, memoirs, or novels whose protagonists are historical, this brings the sum total of biographies I own up to three. The other two are Mervyn Peake and Aubrey Beardsley. Last week when we were in Harvard Square, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lesser_celery advised me not to buy any more biographies on the theory that anyone else I added would disturb the singularity of this combination, but I think a Jewish painter-poet of the First World War is probably not going to normalize it much. I am curious what I could have gotten the three of them to talk about together, though.
. . . of course, in the time it took me to shower, I remembered that I inherited from my grandmother a biography of Sholem Aleichem, written by his daughter Marie Waife-Goldberg, so I guess that's four. It's not in an easily accessible box, unlike the other two, so it didn't spring to mind. I wonder what other books I've forgotten.
lesser_celery advised me not to buy any more biographies on the theory that anyone else I added would disturb the singularity of this combination, but I think a Jewish painter-poet of the First World War is probably not going to normalize it much. I am curious what I could have gotten the three of them to talk about together, though.. . . of course, in the time it took me to shower, I remembered that I inherited from my grandmother a biography of Sholem Aleichem, written by his daughter Marie Waife-Goldberg, so I guess that's four. It's not in an easily accessible box, unlike the other two, so it didn't spring to mind. I wonder what other books I've forgotten.
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Women.
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Beardsley?