Body-text fonts, pt. 35: Monotype Baskerville
After three phone calls to city officials, a heavy snowfall, a thaw, and another freeze, the unhappy (or happy?) cat remains in a cardboard box outside our house. We removed it from our curb. The house across the street is for sale, and we don’t want to deter prospective buyers.
Reader, come, buy this house and be my friend.
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I’ve reached the eighth of nine scheduled books by E. M. Forster:
It hasn’t been an unpleasant project. And yet Forster has slipped into the perhaps unenviable category inhabited by Stephen King and David Lodge, of novelists whose discourses on the novel are more pleasurable than their novels. There’s some delightful stuff in Aspects, not least the quotations. This one, from Moll Flanders, has me itching to read that book.
Aspects’s above edition (Pelican/Penguin) can be read here; a PDF with Aspects’s original pagination is here.
Reader, come, buy this house and be my friend.
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
I’ve reached the eighth of nine scheduled books by E. M. Forster:
- Where Angels Fear to Tread
- The Longest Journey
- A Room with a View
- Howards End
- The Celestial Omnibus
- Maurice
- A Passage to India
- Aspects of the Novel
- The Eternal Moment
It hasn’t been an unpleasant project. And yet Forster has slipped into the perhaps unenviable category inhabited by Stephen King and David Lodge, of novelists whose discourses on the novel are more pleasurable than their novels. There’s some delightful stuff in Aspects, not least the quotations. This one, from Moll Flanders, has me itching to read that book.
Aspects’s above edition (Pelican/Penguin) can be read here; a PDF with Aspects’s original pagination is here.