Daily Dose

From Peacock & Vine: On William Morris and Mariano Fortuny, by A. S. Byatt

REMEMBER

"I remember being overcome with delight when I realized how rigorously the geometry of plants worked among the apparently accidental forms of particular flowers or leaves."

From Fabrics, Designs, and Light

Daily Dose

From Possession, by A. S. Byatt

I SEE

"I see one of my faults as a writer will be a tendency to rush off in all directions at once."

From Chapter 19

A Caricature

Clerihew of Competative Sisters

A. S. BYATT

A. S. Byatt,
On the quiet,
Plays online Scrabble
With Margaret Drabble.

Daily Dose

From Peacock and Vine: On William Morris and Mariano Fortuny, by A. S. Byatt

FRUIT

"William Morris first undertook to represent pomegranates in 1864 -- he produced a design for 'fruit' or 'pomegranates' which originally also contained some elegant olive branches.  Like many designs by Morris the originsl identity is dubious -- is it fruit, is it a pomegranate?  It is oval in shape, rather than round, and looks unlie any pomegranate I have ever seen."

From Pomegranate