If you love a book, do you reread it and buy it in all possible formats—e-book, audiobook, pop-up, scratch-and-sniff, see-through? I am on my way to doing that with T.H. White's
THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING.
My grandfather read it to me when I was a kid (and teen), and I've got a copy of a TOAFK audiobook on my phone (with a narrator that's
almost as good as my grandfather). Reviews aren't my strong suit, but there's something about this book! I found an old review of it online in the 1958 December issue of THE ROTARIAN that felt right (also the super charmingness of a magazine called THE ROTARIAN with an equally charmful cover by a Dane named Paul Høyrup):
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| From googlebooks, cover by Paul Høyrup |
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| Review by John T. Frederick |
I don't have any illustrated copies of TOAFK, and the books are so full of brilliant images, it's been fun to wonder what chapter headers would look like. I jotted down some favorite phrases while listening this week and tried to have fun with a pencil (the moat one's more of a feeling than a correct excerpt, so let's call it a moot moat quote):
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| How can you not love Archimedes? |
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| I was thinking she confused Astrolabe for Astrolobe? I guess this is only funny if you know you look through an astrolabe, and that it doesn't belong in your ear. |
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| A fish or an amphibian with long arms is nothing I want to cuddle. |
