I wish I could say that in my online writing I have managed to resist the temptation to label others and thus turn them into discredited, ghostly cartoons that have little to do with their human realities, but alas, I have trod that path all too happily, only stepping off it when one of my sons challenged me to define the thems and theys of my rants. I could not, of course, but in making the attempt I discovered how readily — even eagerly — I had been discounting human beings about whom I actually knew nothing, and that my pre-judging of them meant that I was, yes, prejudiced.Mindful of that humiliating lesson, I have been trying to break that habit of broad denunciation; I have come to detest words like progressive and liberal and conservative and lefty and right-winger and the ease with which we throw these divisive labels about for the express purpose of insta-discrediting one another. Our propensity to label-and-dismiss each other is quickly leading our nation and our Church toward dangerous cliffs, and though we have gleefully turned each other into cartoons, we will not be able to reclaim solid ground from the thin air, once were launched. I accuse myself of assisting in this careening madness, and I want off.
Read the accompanying article, “Sangorski & Sutcliffe: The Rolls Royce of Bookbinding” on the Ransom Center’s blog, Cultural Compass.Front cover of Thomas Moore’s “Lalla Rookh” with a jeweled binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.
Back cover of Thomas Moore’s “Lalla Rookh” with a jeweled binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.
A Sangorski & Sutcliffe edition of Lewis Carroll’s “The Hunting of the Snark” is bound of Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark is bound in leather with stingray onlay
“The Hunting of the Snark” has semiprecious stones inlaid inside the front cover.
“The Hunting of the Snark” has semiprecious stones inlaid inside the back cover.
Title page of the illuminated manuscript of “Selected Poems of Edgar Allan Poe” bound by Sangorski & Sutcliff.
“Lenore,” an illuminated leave “Selected Poems of Edgar Allan Poe” bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.
The cover of James Russell Lowell’s “The Vision of Sir Launfal” is handwritten in calligraphy on parchment by Alberto Sangorski with decorative borders and illuminated miniatures.
Cover of Percy Shelley’s poem “The Sensitive Plant” bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. The text is handwritten on parchment by Alberto Sangorski, with decorative borders and illuminated miniatures.
Inside front cover of “The Sensitive Plant” is embellished with multicolored leather onlyas, inlays, and gold tooling.
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William Bell, you are the man.
Jaehyo Lee.
Wooden sculptures by Jaehyo Lee.
Ellora, Narasimha - avatar de Visnu qui s’est incarné en sanglier pour sauver le Terre engloutie au fond d el’Océan Cosmique. Bas-relief de la caverne brahmanique 14 (VIè siècle).Août 1977.
Another Michael Nichols photo from California’s redwood forests.
photograph by Michael Nichols of The President, the second most massive tree on earth, and the scientists who are studying it.