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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

I’ve a grand memory for forgetting, David.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Novel (1886), Kidnapped, ch. 18 “I Talk with Alan in the Wood of Lettermore”
[Alan]

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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

I’ve a grand memory for forgetting, David.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Novel (1886), Kidnapped, ch. 18 “I Talk with Alan in the Wood of Lettermore”
[Alan]

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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

I’ve a grand memory for forgetting, David.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Novel (1886), Kidnapped, ch. 18 “I Talk with Alan in the Wood of Lettermore”
[Alan]

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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

I’ve a grand memory for forgetting, David.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Novel (1886), Kidnapped, ch. 18 “I Talk with Alan in the Wood of Lettermore”
[Alan]

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The Three Robins
9 September, Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway. Free, ticketed.

A talk on “The Three Robins: R. Burns, R. Fergusson and R. Louis Stevenson” presented by Prof David Purdie, MD. Medical Professor Emeritus & Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Edinburgh

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/highlight-talk-prof-david-purdie-md-on-the-three-robins-tickets-1990168132458

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Out now!

STEVENSON AND PLEASURE
Ed. Julie Gay, Lesley Graham & Nathalie Jaëck

Looking at physical, creative, & intertextual/intermedial pleasures, these 10 essays explore how pleasure – sensory, intellectual & aesthetic – influenced Robert Louis Stevenson’s work & its reception.

Available from bookshops worldwide (£24.95 / €29.95 / $29.95) & digitally via Project MUSE

@litstudies

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/occasional_papers/stevenson-and-pleasure/

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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1882-08), “Talk and Talkers (A Sequel),” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 46

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*Well, I kinda figured, but that was worth a look.

*What if Walter Scott and his French wife Charlotte had been stuffing all their guests with mayonnaise. What if they had insisted that Washington Irving, their American disciple, had to eat mayonnaise #RobertLouisStevenson #Samoa #mayonnaise

*I hear you, but your attitude is rank obscurantism. #Mahon #Balearic #Menorca #mayonnaise #France #Samoa #Scotland #globalization #RobertLouisStevenson en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayonna...

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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

In the life of the artist there need be no hour without its pleasure. I take the author, with whose career I am best acquainted; and it is true he works in a rebellious material, and that the act of writing is cramped and trying both to the eyes and the temper; but remark him in his study, when matter crowds upon him and words are not wanting — in what a continual series of small successes time flows by; with what a sense of power as of one moving mountains, he marshals his petty characters; with what pleasures, both of the ear and eye, he sees his airy structure growing on the page; and how he labours in a craft to which the whole material of his life is tributary, and which opens a door to all his tastes, his loves, his hatreds, and his convictions, so that what he writes is only what he longed to utter. He may have enjoyed many things in this big, tragic playground of the world; but what shall he have enjoyed more fully than a morning of successful work? Suppose it ill paid: the wonder is it should be paid at all. Other men pay, and pay dearly, for pleasures less desirable.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1888-09), “A Letter to a Young Gentleman Who Proposes to Embrace the Career of Art,” Scribner’s Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 3

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“memory does not rest forever in the cast sculptures of the great and good. It changes, renewed with each generation, so that monuments take on new meaning and scrutiny”

—Dr Craig Lamont on Remembering RLS: Stevenson & Cultural Memory

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2022/06/remembering-rls-stevenson-cultural-memory/

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