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Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
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Killing Charlemagne: excerpt from E Unibus Pluram - David Foster Wallace
The next real literary “rebels” in this country might well emerge as some weird bunch of anti-rebels, born oglers who dare somehow to back away from ironic watching, who have the childish gall actually to endorse and instantiate single-entendre principles. Who treat of plain old untrendy human…
One night they fell asleep, side by side. He slept curled upon her back; a dark comma against her pale, elegant phrase.
—A.S. Byatt, Possession
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
1958: Audrey Hepburn holds Ip, also known as Ippy and Pip, the fawn used during the filming of Green Mansions. Ip became an integrated member of the Ferrer family, actually living at the Ferrer home with Mel, Audrey, and Famous (her dog) and sleeping in the family’s bathtub. As for the fawn’s acting abilities, Mel is quoted as having said, “I still cannot understand why Ippy did not deserve a nomination. He performed brilliantly.” Her son Luca recalls, “Her love for the fawn finally broke her heart. She never stopped telling us how much sorrow she felt when they had to part. It also became one of her greatest legacies left to us: Nature is not a game to play with.”
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“I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.”
-Audrey Hepburn
Anita Ekberg and Federico Fellini in front of “the square colosseum” in Rome.
