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Showing posts with label Maurice Sendak. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Maurice Sendak. Show all posts

Thursday, January 31, 2013

"And Guy sank upon a couch of flowers/In an ice-ribbed underworld..."

"Awash in blossoming gold from a new sun/Tumbling out dark long-ago clouds..."

Maurice Sendak's last work.
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Labels: art, death, Maurice Sendak

Saturday, December 29, 2012

Growing old tests your atheism.

"Live your life."
Posted by Ann Rivera at 6:38 AM No comments:
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