cornish & the changeling #10
May. 13th, 2007 11:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
adelaideseanI've almost run out of David Cornish's illustrations for The Changeling. This is the last full-page image, capturing a very lonely young boy running away from home with everything he owns slung over his shoulder.
Perhaps it's a little self-indulgent to claim any kind of parallel between Ros and the book itself, especially when HarperCollins is going to look after it very well in the big, bad world. I do, however, feel a bit nervous about its fate. More so than usual, I mean. Maybe it's because it's taking so long to get into print, or because the writing of it has crossed so many complicated times in my life, or because it taps into so much of my childhood...I don't know.
However that anxiety's come into being, David's captured it well. I want to leap into that picture, pick Ros up and whisk him off to somewhere everyone loves him.
Last...
"The night was utterly dark. Only when lightning struck, as it did with increasing frequency, could Ros see anything at all, and then just for a split-instant. Afterwards, dazzled, he could barely see the ground ahead of him."
Perhaps it's a little self-indulgent to claim any kind of parallel between Ros and the book itself, especially when HarperCollins is going to look after it very well in the big, bad world. I do, however, feel a bit nervous about its fate. More so than usual, I mean. Maybe it's because it's taking so long to get into print, or because the writing of it has crossed so many complicated times in my life, or because it taps into so much of my childhood...I don't know.
However that anxiety's come into being, David's captured it well. I want to leap into that picture, pick Ros up and whisk him off to somewhere everyone loves him.
Last...
"The night was utterly dark. Only when lightning struck, as it did with increasing frequency, could Ros see anything at all, and then just for a split-instant. Afterwards, dazzled, he could barely see the ground ahead of him."
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Date: 2007-05-13 06:23 am (UTC)I sincerly hope, that one day, you will be able to have the deluxe illustrated version published, and Mr cornish will be able to finish these magnificent pictures. I sincerly wish I was rich enough to sponsor such a project.
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Date: 2007-05-14 02:16 am (UTC)re-edited to make sense
Date: 2007-05-14 10:55 pm (UTC)“When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.”
Remind me to tell you about Christian Waller one day.
Re: re-edited to make sense
Date: 2007-05-14 11:19 pm (UTC)Good on you for supporting local SF&F. It all helps!
(Great quote, btw.)