Engraving. New York, D. Appleton and Co. I am uncertain as to the artist. It may be K. Meadows or W. H. Mote.
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“May you live in interesting times.”
“May you live in interesting times.”
— Chinese curse (possibly apocryphal?). There is an interesting examination of the saying’s possible origins here.
Photo credit: By Amannainani – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=49701557
Cover to “Night Nurse” #3, Win Mortimer, 1972
Marvel Comics.
““O what was that bird,” said horror to hearer.”
“O what was that bird,” said horror to hearer,
“Did you see that shape in the twisted trees?
Behind you swiftly the figure comes softly,
The spot on your skin is a shocking disease.”
— excerpt from W. H. Auden’s O Where Are You Going?
“Contagion is a Despot Poet,” by Eric Robert Nolan
Contagion is a despot poet . It
releases fatal verses from its throne.
Its alabaster palm will lean to sow
what words will wind within their binding strictures
each arriving low, in permanent cursive,
at the many nadirs of pages — each
to immutable conclusion,
to shared, indelible metaphor:
dirges upon April mornings
eulogies at afternoon
rimes to loss at rayless night, as stars,
so slowly overflying a singing, dim landscape of endowed poetry,
are indistinct, indifferent.
(c) Eric Robert Nolan 2020
Photo credit: By Helgi Halldórsson from Reykjavík, Iceland – darkness, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33782100
Poster for “28 Weeks Later” (2007)
20th Century Fox/Fox Atomic.
