.Alfonso

Thunderclap and Flash

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WATERSHIP DOWN INKTOBER TAKE 2: THE RABBIT SAINTS

The black rabbit has his owsla too, you know.

Gunta Stölzl (1897-1983), Red-Green Slit Tapestry, 1927-28.

Polish artist, Waldemar Świerzy.

LOLITA. How many illustrators have stumbled over that one? Far from being a kind of seductive child-woman, as she’s often depicted on covers, Lolita in the novel was mainly one thing: a victim of child abuse. That’s not a modern insight informed by the current times, it was right there at the beginning. She’s abused, and she ends up in a downward spiral. She’s old and done when she’s eighteen. Somehow though the story took on a life of its own, and now, when we think of the name “Lolita”, we think of saucy, sexy ingenués who tempt (older) men.

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