[Ads-l] ...colours of the Rimbaud....above my blood...."

[Dan Goncharoff]

Blood = class, station?

On Sun, Jun 19, 2022, 7:06 PM Stephen Goranson <goranson at duke.edu> wrote:

> A. L. P. Norrington, Blackwell's 1879-1979: The History of a Family Firm,
> 1985, p. 122 identifies people in a Muirhead Bone painting in the book
> store:
> " in the far distance Enid Starkie (in all the colours of the Rimbaud!–a
> witticism attributed to me [Blackwell, jun.] but above my blood. I tackled
> [Maurice] Bowra on this head, but he denied it)...."
>
> Colo[u]rs of the rainbow is not far to week.
> But "above my blood"?
>
> Stephen
>
> picture at, e.g.,
>
> https://brentnongbri.com/2022/06/19/blackwells-at-oxford-1950-by-muirhead-bone/
> [
> https://variantreadings.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/bone-blackwells-scan-header.jpg?w=1200
> ]<
> https://brentnongbri.com/2022/06/19/blackwells-at-oxford-1950-by-muirhead-bone/
> >
> Blackwell’s at Oxford, 1950 by Muirhead Bone | Variant Readings<
> https://brentnongbri.com/2022/06/19/blackwells-at-oxford-1950-by-muirhead-bone/
> >
> Thanks to Stephen Goranson for sending a reference to Arthur L.P.
> Norrington, Blackwell’s 1879-1979: The History of a Family Firm (Oxford:
> Blackwell, 1983), which provides identifications of several of the figures
> in the Muirhead Bone pastel of Blackwell’s book shop from 1950 that I wrote
> about in an earlier post.I had ventured an identification of the
> papyrologist Colin H. Roberts.
> brentnongbri.com
>
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