Comments on: More On The Joy Of A Favorite Book

By: Shawn W

Shawn W — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:56:49 +0000

Hi Ivy! Glad you dropped by, I’ve missed you too.

That would be a very cool book to have. My dad’s old bible means a lot to me, though I’d be afraid to try and use it.

Our society is becoming so disposable, one wonders if they will wind up with a bunch of disks and picture CD’s. I hope we leave them warmer things than that.

By: Ivy

Ivy — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:09:31 +0000

Lovely posting. Missed you so came over to say hello.
One of my favorite books is a very small leather bound book written in Spanish that belonged to my father.
I wonder what heirlooms the future will have to allow them to touch what their ancestors touched. Will they perceive this inclination as something primitive?

By: Shawn W

Shawn W — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:39:48 +0000

Hello, back at you, and thanks for stopping by. Glad you had a good supper. I cooked 15 bean soup with brown rice for supper, and hubby over did it a bit too. Now he’s out for the night.

By: Mr. Hand

Mr. Hand — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 03:09:48 +0000

It is a new evening. I won’t be up as late tonight. But, I figured I’d stop by and say hello. I had a splendid supper. I’m still feeling a bit stuffed.

By: Shawn W

Shawn W — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 05:04:52 +0000

I enjoyed it too, Mr. Hand. Good night.

By: Mr. Hand

Mr. Hand — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 04:20:09 +0000

I think one still sees something in the quality because of the time involved. One simply wouldn’t make a picture that wasn’t worth the time those old pictures took whereas now with the convenient computer tools that allow one to turn out many pictures, one doesn’t have to spend so much time (and doesn’t have so much time) thinking about the content.

By the way, I’m quite enjoying the rapidfireness of this. That’s the one thing I missed about the other place.

And, now, it is time for me to retire for the evening.

By: Shawn W

Shawn W — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 03:52:18 +0000

It seems everything new is done with photos or computer graphics. It took so much talent to do illustrations of that caliber.

My grandmother use to make me do “exercises” to improve my handwriting. It didn’t work, but her’s was beautiful.

By: Mr. Hand

Mr. Hand — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 02:59:00 +0000

Those old illustrations are soooo cool. I was recently reading a history book about books and the illustrations therein. There were some reproductions of the illustrations. They were cool.

There are a few recent ones that call that kind of stuff to mind. In the 1980s, there was a book published on mathematical games where lots of the diagrams are hand lettered. The co-author that did the lettering was in his 60s at the time. His handwriting is splendid.

Also, the works of Holling C. Holling pop into my mind.

I have a recent fun book with old style illustrations: “After Man: A Zoology of the Future” by Dougal Dixon.

By: Shawn W

Shawn W — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 02:48:51 +0000

They do evoke a deeper feeling. Hands that healed held them and learned to heal from them. There is no way to know how many lives were saved by the doctors who trained from them.

It’s even deeper than that, but I don’t know how to explain it.

By: Shawn W

Shawn W — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 02:45:55 +0000

You’re right, Mr. Hand those books would be worth having with just the illustrations, and they are so well done it almost looks like a photo. I have several very old ones, but they are my favorites.

Wanda, a frog skeleton would be cool too.

David, would you still be impressed if I can lift a 110 lb dog into the tub?

Corina, that’s the best part about them. They were written by a group of thirty practicing doctors and kept to tried a true science. It really gives you an idea of how far we’ve come.