tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20078507.post2936079083226671022..comments2023-11-18T09:51:52.115+10:30Comments on Medlar Comfits: Strawberry de Bergerac—a celebrationanna tambourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01338581782386113668noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20078507.post-28368339011018774672012-10-02T13:44:26.875+09:302012-10-02T13:44:26.875+09:30Adam,
It was a treat to finally meet you in the fl...Adam,<br />It was a treat to finally meet you in the flesh, though I should rip your posting fingers off, and (the delightful) Cat's clicking fingers for — what news reports say. "A warning: there are graphic images." (as opposed to ungraphic) At the next gathering of humans close enough to smell and see, I'll just wear that Virginia Woolf profile, perhaps adding a fascinator and fangs.<br /><br />But for physical presence, I cannot but effuse about Pyrotechnicon, and the publisher. Words, meaning, text, paper, cover, the quality of the quality illustrations — an orgy in heaven.<br />And your bookplate is another playful element that makes this book something quite special.<br /><br />Of course, that would all be like a frosted cardboard box if the cake you made weren't so good that it could be eaten dry (I can't say 'and stale' because your cakes won't stalify).<br /><br />So making noses for you was a privilege, and a delight. Remember, however, that the noses with the broken blood vessels and the mo were the ones that I made, but all those pink flushed noses that had epics behind them and writers who they needed as scribes, were made by the multi-talented<a href="http://www.taliehelene.com/" rel="nofollow">Talie Helene</a>, who is, in addition to being a writer and musician, is a sculptor of things <i>other</i> than noses (<i>as if there could be 'things other'</i>, I hear a nose say). <br /><br />anna tambourhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01338581782386113668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20078507.post-8933532814769063202012-10-02T06:29:54.585+09:302012-10-02T06:29:54.585+09:30so good to see you there, Anna!
i posted some of ...so good to see you there, Anna!<br /><br />i posted some of Cat's pictures to Facebook, and many of the responses were about how wonderful you are - i'm not being effusive - that's the word people choose to use when talking about you<br /><br />And for the noses, again, thanksAdam Brownehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06367635440305104255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20078507.post-25188926586351084362012-09-16T14:58:23.596+09:302012-09-16T14:58:23.596+09:30you are, I'm afraid, Anna, you'd better ju...you are, I'm afraid, Anna, you'd better just accept it (have you read, by the way, about the evolutionary reasons behind depression? - its relation to fixity of thought and purpose? - makes me think about the humours, how it was understood that melancholy is the creative humour...)<br /><br />And yes to the food launch! I pick the marzipan nose!Adam Brownehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06367635440305104255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20078507.post-59713687635574994622012-09-16T14:37:08.694+09:302012-09-16T14:37:08.694+09:30John,
You're so kind, but genius, never! Perha...John,<br />You're so kind, but genius, never! Perhaps you mean genus?<br /><br />As for the food launch, yes yes yes! De rigueur finger food: Les Marzipan noses!anna tambourhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01338581782386113668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20078507.post-64298279375622240222012-09-16T09:05:17.111+09:302012-09-16T09:05:17.111+09:30i reproduced this post on facebook, and John Dixon...i reproduced this post on facebook, and John Dixon responded: <br /><br />Great! Anna is a genius -- and how fitting, the food launch of PYROTECHNICON!<br />Adam Brownehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06367635440305104255noreply@blogger.com