tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post4743383602774838025..comments2024-03-18T09:09:59.625-04:00Comments on Janet Reid, Literary Agent: new ways of seeingJanet Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00615380335938685231noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-48070335574825487172011-12-26T01:32:09.261-05:002011-12-26T01:32:09.261-05:00...and its name was Sussuruss......and its name was Sussuruss...Michael McClunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14708067144914238641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-12833639496984689582011-11-05T18:13:10.697-04:002011-11-05T18:13:10.697-04:00It looks like a smoothly differentiable vector fie...It looks like a smoothly differentiable vector field to me.<br /><br />Or a Lovecraftian whale. Either one.Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04707446502383204223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-65916745553880364872011-10-15T03:05:40.186-04:002011-10-15T03:05:40.186-04:00Late to the party, but it reminds me of days when ...Late to the party, but it reminds me of days when my daughters played volleyball, looks just like one of their knee pads they pulled off and dropped on the floor.Judith Gondahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10660792353316408939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-90889862061245388022011-10-13T16:53:40.948-04:002011-10-13T16:53:40.948-04:00My first thought was ARP, the sculptor. After I c...My first thought was ARP, the sculptor. After I clicked on the link and read about the artist I thought of Pininfarina aero-dynamics studies.angie Brooksby-Arcangiolihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08000615140577512304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-22850154069980286852011-10-13T12:48:07.875-04:002011-10-13T12:48:07.875-04:00I was thinking fortune cookie! I'm hungry...wh...I was thinking fortune cookie! I'm hungry...what do I know?! Ha!Melissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15188040527118428794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-20545287041052098562011-10-13T11:17:31.976-04:002011-10-13T11:17:31.976-04:00To me it looks like something trying to get out of...To me it looks like something trying to get out of a sack. Too much Mummenschanz as a child?Alice Sabohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15017512356886351379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-76936022718776809802011-10-13T10:49:32.781-04:002011-10-13T10:49:32.781-04:00I *love* Christina Rossetti. My first book has a ...I *love* Christina Rossetti. My first book has a ton of Rossetti references in it. I didn't really know her before I wrote the book, and just fell in love when I was trying to find the poet muse...swedishfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05945853120666765027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-54321079915550725932011-10-13T10:07:15.494-04:002011-10-13T10:07:15.494-04:00It looks like a towel ready for the wash.
But I...It looks like a towel ready for the wash. <br /><br />But I looked at the other pics on the website too, and the second to last one was definitely Casper, the friendly ghost.S. D. Grimmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14087472181687868202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-63424439415836206652011-10-13T09:24:16.876-04:002011-10-13T09:24:16.876-04:00Could be a mantra or maybe a sack or a floppy chef...Could be a mantra or maybe a sack or a floppy chef hat.Pat Hatthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07745293224202430152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-46151984875104040392011-10-13T09:12:44.346-04:002011-10-13T09:12:44.346-04:00Yep, an elephant with his trunk curled around.Yep, an elephant with his trunk curled around.Patrick DiOriohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11412666168240074091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-12190702692210290812011-10-13T07:04:55.045-04:002011-10-13T07:04:55.045-04:00Becky, this is hilarious, because when I first wro...Becky, this is hilarious, because when I first wrote the post I put RLS as the author of Child's Garden of Verses.<br /><br />Then I googled just to doublecheck I had the poem right (it's been awhile!)<br />and found the author was Christina Rosetti.<br /><br />I didn't take the next step which I should have, of actually looking at the actual book.<br /><br />You're right! I must have heard this poem from another book.Janet Reidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00615380335938685231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-15558360144829077182011-10-13T04:54:37.818-04:002011-10-13T04:54:37.818-04:00It's a shoggoth, a monster from HP Lovecraft h...It's a shoggoth, a monster from HP Lovecraft horror stories.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-24275181733818018412011-10-13T03:52:25.436-04:002011-10-13T03:52:25.436-04:00Is this a Rorschach test? Because I'm seeing a...Is this a Rorschach test? Because I'm seeing a nude female figure. Really. I have no idea what this says about me.Jenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12314617048592538691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-79582547025957062642011-10-13T01:58:37.805-04:002011-10-13T01:58:37.805-04:00I got stuck on "new ways of seeing" sinc...I got stuck on "new ways of seeing" since I have new glasses and it's great to see the algorithms at all. :Dtherese patrick, authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14624202282411832436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-31094301518341438632011-10-12T23:46:01.353-04:002011-10-12T23:46:01.353-04:00... and turned counter-clockwise, (widdershins!) i...... and turned counter-clockwise, (widdershins!) it's the Enterprise-M time-slipping downwards from the 27th Century.widdershinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04205462833259334647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-75921863241751908332011-10-12T23:08:15.467-04:002011-10-12T23:08:15.467-04:00If you turn the image clockwise, I see a duck slee...If you turn the image clockwise, I see a duck sleeping with its head tucked on its back. Huddled against him is his mate.Laurie Lambhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16363512651725751903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-35677905875623225712011-10-12T22:57:29.093-04:002011-10-12T22:57:29.093-04:00A Child's Garden of Verses was by Robert Louis...<i>A Child's Garden of Verses</i> was by Robert Louis Stevenson, published in 1929. Christina Rosetti's poems were in <i>The Golden Book of Poetry</i> (1947).<br /><br />My mother read Stevenson's poems to me when I was a baby. The first poems I memorized were from <i>A Child's Garden of Verses</i>: "Farewell to the Farm"<br />The coach is at the door at last/The eager children mounting fast . . . .<br /><br />By the time Rosetti's book came out, I was already quoting Stevenson.Becky Mushkohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11833297935575559624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-66503809583699401282011-10-12T22:43:03.597-04:002011-10-12T22:43:03.597-04:00A small section of a pencil sketch--on nubby, spec...A small section of a pencil sketch--on nubby, specially printed canvas--of the nose and lips of a female 'Cyrano de Bergerac'-type character. Except the nose comes to a most unflatteringly sharp point at its end--which we aren't privy to viewing--which may be all for the best.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-22539948107213408502011-10-12T21:23:56.908-04:002011-10-12T21:23:56.908-04:00Not that I want to get all Southern Baptist... but...Not that I want to get all Southern Baptist... but it looks like the veil on a grandmama church hat after the first hour of a hot sermon on an even hotter Sunday morning in Rocky Mount, North Carolina... and DAMN!... what's up with no air conditioning?... I'm just sayin'gregkshipmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04541163996705006036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-80985289672664793192011-10-12T21:16:18.529-04:002011-10-12T21:16:18.529-04:00It looks erotic to me.It looks erotic to me.ryan fieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13361694356025572544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-36386704854141848832011-10-12T20:22:19.597-04:002011-10-12T20:22:19.597-04:00It looks like a very soft conch shell, to me. At f...It looks like a very soft conch shell, to me. At first I thought it resembled paintings I've seen of Native American women wrapped in a blanket (facing away from the viewer) but the line on the right side resembles the edge of something, like a conch shell opening, or as some of you said, the spine of a manatee!Lori Safranekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06842137140185064303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-26566037085861422022011-10-12T19:41:30.480-04:002011-10-12T19:41:30.480-04:00Looks like a shark to me. Of course, that is not s...Looks like a shark to me. Of course, that is not surprising. Just recently everything looks like a shark to me.Steve Stubbshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10051363877066768708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-7608641900286431182011-10-12T19:40:16.446-04:002011-10-12T19:40:16.446-04:00I see the backside of a very exotic lily. I wish I...I see the backside of a very exotic lily. I wish I could see the front.Kate Higginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09861373649696211491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-74544555145531939272011-10-12T19:12:39.962-04:002011-10-12T19:12:39.962-04:00If I could see a manatee's soul, I imagine tha...If I could see a manatee's soul, I imagine that is what it would look like -- still gargantuan, but more graceful and aerodynamic.Shaunnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06542124673668776592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17040756.post-91265044004475176972011-10-12T18:41:07.659-04:002011-10-12T18:41:07.659-04:00Yes, some kind of megaray. Or a manatee. Beautifu...Yes, some kind of megaray. Or a manatee. Beautiful!JShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13974691019739092440noreply@blogger.com