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Goodenough Gismo

This is the classic children's book, Goodenough Gismo, by Richmond I. Kelsey, published in 1948. Nearly unavailable in libraries and the collector's market, it is posted here with love as an "orphan work" so that it may be seen and appreciated -- and perhaps even republished, as it deserves to be. After you read this book, it won't surprise you to learn that Richmond Irwin Kelsey (1905-1987) was an accomplished artist, or that as Dick Kelsey, he was one of the great Disney art directors, breaking your heart with "Pinocchio," "Dumbo," and "Bambi."

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A Man for All Seasons

After some years of exasperated perplexity, I finally figured my husband out: anything you can say about him, the opposite is also true. He is or has been, simultaneously or sequentially, both extremes on every continuum you care to name. The strongest, the weakest. The kindest, the cruelest. The crassest, the most sensitive; the cheapest, the most generous. Wise and dumb. Stubborn and accomodating. Tender and violent. An heir, a slave.

I thought he must be the only one of that kind. I hadn't yet encountered Gregory Sippican Sullivan.

Posted by amba on September 04, 2006 at 01:44 PM | Permalink