Today: Picture books from 1810 to 1950

A total of six hundred and fifty Dutch picture books, dating to the period 1810–1950, are brought together in this collection, which runs the gamut from Robinson Crusoe to Tielse Flipje (a cartoon mascot on ‘De Betuwe’ jam pot labels) and from old nursery rhymes to fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm: there is something for everyone in the collection.

from the Memory of the Netherlands.

Story: The Language of Men

short fiction
by Norman Mailer
for Esquire
1953

Author: Beryl Markham

Note to self.
Self, go to library and check out copy of West With The Night. Must read more of this:

I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesterdays are buried deep—leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.

by Beryl Markham from West With The Night