Something old & something new

[thanate]

I meant to post this some time ago, but there was all this real life stuff to deal with first... Anyway, aoi_no_yume linked to a post by a friend of hers some time back, talking about collecting quotations into "florilegium" as she calls them. (My dictionary defines the word as a collection of literary extracts or an anthology, but in this case it's used to mean shorter bits...) At any rate, I was one of the people who said "Oh, I used to do that sort of thing all the time, back in the days when I had pen and paper in front of me for large parts of my day" and dug some of my word pictures out of the filing cabinet. Most of them are a bit more illustrative and randomized, and far more short studies of what I happened to be thinking about at the time than deep things that moved me particularly, but here, have some:

We start with the actual mostly words page I turned up that dates from 8th grade. I suspect most of this comes direct from the quote book I carried around for a while (if you're already carrying around three heavy textbooks, what's one more tome?) "Majoring in boxes" was the phrase used by my English teacher in trying to discourage us from spending too much time with our coloring skills on standardized tests.



A later example-- I think I may have had this up in one of my dorm rooms for a year somewhere. It's a mix of randomized bits, none attributed (mainly since I knew all the sources & could reveal them if asked), mainly an Emily Dickinson poem, Labyrinth, and a Tomie dePaola book.



And then, again slightly later, we have Apuleius's paean to woman's hair, in neon, with counterpoint of the devinyls for some reason. I think the original intention was to fill the page with other stuff, but I couldn't think of anything else that went properly at the time. (Looking back at this, I'm somewhat tempted to redo the hair part in a digital rendition at some point...)



I turned up some other things, but they were mostly more in the symbolic picture line with rather limited words, or faint pencil bits that didn't turn out too well in pictures.

Comments

[gossamerrain]

These are lovely, thank you for posting them! I like the hair one especially. I was thinking I'd put a section on the original post with links to people's examples, if you don't mind. :) (I know it's linked in the comments but I figure, putting it on the entry would make it easier to see, hehe, if people are interested. ^^)

[thanate.livejournal.com]

Go ahead and link-- I've got no objections. :)

[aoi-no-yume.livejournal.com]

oh wow! these are great, but the hair one is amazing! thanks for sharing<3 :D