Following up on my Tribe of Readers post; inspired by a round-up of people reading, depicted in art: o silêncio dos livros , via Art Sparker via Cláudia (thanks!).
Most of these aren't exactly real life, but I still like them.
Bed and Board (Domicile Conjugal, 1970), Jean-Pierre Léaud) and Claude Jade
Tomb of Eleanor of Aquitaine (and husband Henry II), 1204--Good News, indeed: we get to read when we're dead.
Lee Miller and Tanja Ramm, by Theodore Miller
Scenes From a Marriage (1973), Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson
William Shatner. OK, he's not in bed, and it seems he's studying his script so that's work, not pleasure; but anyway, he's on his back.
Me! This past winter.
The Summer Book, read with hand warmers.
ReplyDeleteI love that picture of Bill. It seems to have been taken along the same silly lines as Nabokov's car shot.
Eleanor of Aquitaine! You've probably seen "The Lion in Winter" w/ Katharine Hepburn?
(She looks like she's just fallen asleep while reading - that's a pleasant way to go.)
I have seen Lion in Winter--it's where I got half my English history!
ReplyDeleteWhen I look at a photo of Bill, I always ask myself, "Where was the camera?" which is surely what he asks himself... all the time.
KKPPRRRRRRFFFFGGGGHHHT!
ReplyDelete(This is the sound a Laugh makes when it bursts into the room without knocking.)
Good thing there was nothing in my mouth to choke on at "....all the time".