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Friday, January 29, 2010

A Visit With Lloyd Alexander

Below is a link to a wonderful video of Lloyd Alexander, author of The Chronicles of Prydain, talking about his life and his writing.

Click here to go to part one. There are three parts to the series (about 20 minutes all together) and well worth watching.

In his will, Alexander left many of his books/manuscripts/ and possesions to Brigham Young University. A new exhibit just opened in the Harold B. Lee Library displaying his things, including the harp shown in the video.

"The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." ~Francis Bacon

"A blessed companion is a book, - a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend,... a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into our own." ~Douglas Jerrold

"...For he would rather have
at his bed's head
Some twenty books all bound
in black and red,
Than rich robes, fiddle or
gay psaltery" ~Chaucer

"There is no frigate like a book
to take you lands away
Nor any coursers like a page
of prancing poetry.

This traverse may the poorest take
without oppress of toll
how frugal is the chariot
that bears the human soul!"~Emily Dickinson

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