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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. Written in English edition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> When the rash hospitality of the editors invited me to trouble this sufficient demonstration of Figari’s work with a verbal commentary my first impulse was one of gratitude. my second one of acceptance my third one of flight. I meditated on how out of place my voice would be with regard to pictorial material; I was visited by fears I thought reasonable. I later reflected on the fact that my well-known and perfect ignorance of painting turns completely on mat- ters of technique and that reminded me of the only tech- nique I know something about: literature. It is obvious to me as a writer that this much-praised discipline-the contact of unlike words the surprise of metaphors the occasio- nal punctuation of tenderness the pretense of certainty in intellectual matters through the use of precise formulas- is an attainable repertory of skills easy to acquire over time and pleasant to use but unworthy of excessive veneration. No one much doubts this merely skillful character of litera- ture. The proof is in the pejorative connotation of the word rhetoric; the explanation in the fact that all men are literati-since to argue or move to pity or tell a story partake as much of literature as the act of writing and tend to be more successful as such- and as literati they all know how possible literature is and how mistaken are those who im- pute special merit to those versed in it. This profound insub stantiality of one of the arts of the matt (LL)