“Treason seldom dwells with courage.”
— Sir Walter Scott
Portrait by Henry Raeburn of Walter Scott (1771 – 1832), novelist and poet.
New York Public Library.
“Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.”
— Edmund Burke
Portrait of Burke by Joshua Reynolds, circa 1769
I do not like thee, Doctor Fell,
The reason why – I cannot tell;
But this I know, and know full well,
I do not like thee, Doctor Fell.
— Tom Brown, circa 1680 (apocryphal)
Chromolithograph of the Hall of Christ Church, Oxford, from the book Old England: A Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Baronial, Municipal, and Popular Antiquities (published by Charles Knight and Co., London, 1845)
Does this cozy Southern house
harbor an audacious mouse?
Because heaven only knows
what just ran across my toes.
Lithographic plates. After Matthaeus Merian’s 17th century drawings.
There is a mourning dove on the telephone wire out front just staring through my window at me.
This might mean I need to become a mourning dove-themed superhero a la Frank Miller’s “Batman: Year One.”
Figures I’d get the depressing #@&* instead of a falcon or an owl something.
DC Comics.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 