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“You ought, Mr Graham, to be the first president of a British Republic.” “I ought, madam, if I had my rights,” he answered sardonically, “to be the king of this country. And what a three weeks that would be!”
—Ford Madox Ford, Return to Yesterday
🎨 “Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham”, Sir John Lavery (1893)
8/18
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #FordMadoxFord
Born on this day....
Ford Madox Ford, best known for his novel 'The Good Soldier', considered one of the great novels of literature. His use of flashbacks and the unreliable narrator helped define his pioneering impressionist voice.
'If you’re going to have a character appear in a story long enough to sell a newspaper, he’d better be real enough that you can smell his breath.'
Ford Madox Ford
Ah, Bill Nighy, he cannot put a foot wrong. A great actor. And he is such an incredible charmer too, never NOT quietly elevating our human sensitivies in unexpected ways, whenever he speaks.
Indeed, #MJohnHarrison, for you to stand next to #FordMadoxFord is an honor, and to be placed there by Mr Nighy gives that honour an extra unbookish twist. It goes both ways, of course: #BillNighy elevates himself (if that were possible) by his affection for FMF and MJH. Bravo all.
Derangedly, I thought I'd try to sketch headshots of each author of a book I finished in 2022. Here's 1-8 (chronologically from when I read them this year). Yeah, the scale's screwy, but at least you don't know what most of 'em look like: #VirginiaWoolf, #DavidThomson, #RamanSehgal, #FordMadoxFord, #GlennKurtz, #ScottMeslow, #ItaloCalvino, and #DonaldHall, for whom I just decided to go with ink. I'll work on the other 49 (!) over the holiday.
The art of storytelling: Ford Madox Ford, born #OTD in 1873, in his great novel The Good Soldier (1915) #writing #storytelling #FordMadoxFord
This is hard!
#7Books to get to know me (fiction only):
- The Medusa Frequency (#RussellHoban)
- A Canticle for Leibowitz (#WalterMiller)
- Through Black Spruce (#JosephBoyden)
- The Good Soldier (#FordMadoxFord)
- The Painted Drum (#LouiseErdrich)
- The Overstory (#RichardPowers)
- The Devils (#Dostoyevesky)
Honourable mention to #AliSmith
