January 2019 in review

[james_davis_nicoll]

January 2019 in review

Comments

Since the full length picture is shown here,

[(Anonymous)]

I could be misinterpreting a detail but I think the illustration could represent a lady wearing a dress that is very, very thin. (Is that Boston?)

I would like clarification but that isn't the best thing to say at this point.

Robert Carnegie

Re: Since the full length picture is shown here,

[james_davis_nicoll]

It's Pre-Raphaelite painter Waterhouse's I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, Said the Lady of Shalott.

Re: Since the full length picture is shown here,

[james_davis_nicoll]

I have no idea what you mean by "Is that Boston?"

The Lady of Shalott is an Alfred, Lord Tennyson poem about the eponymous Lady, whose perfectly acceptable life in a tower with a mirror that lets her enjoy existence is ruined by that jerk-ass Lancelot.

There are two other painting in the series. One depicts the moment when the Lady is all phwoar over Arthurian Britain's romantic ebola:



And the third, where she's floating off to her death.



The moral here is that book reviewers should keep busy working and not bother themselves with distractions.