“The large gray spiked form rising from the bottom of the picture is to me the symbol of death and ruin. And finally the black ovoid form is the symbol of fire, lava and destruction.” FormBlackFireDestructionBottomRuinsSymbolsRisingGrayLava Author:William Baziotes
“Holly Black is the Real Thing: a gifted writer with a solid grounding in what matters. Her stories are dark and splendid blooms rising from roots sunk deep in myth and tradition.” RealMatterStoriesBlackDarkTraditionRootsMythRisingWhat MattersGiftedSplendidReal ThingsGroundingHolliesGifted Writers Author:Ellen Kushner
“Any one who has stood upon a lofty summit and gazed over an inchoate tangle of deep canyons and cragged mountains, of sunlit lakelets and black expanses of forest, has become aware of a certain giddy sensation that there are no distances, no measures, simply unrelated matter rising and falling without any analogy to the banal geometry of breadth, thickness, and height.” MatterCertainFallBlackMountainDistanceForestsHeightRisingSensationsSummitGeometryLoftyAnalogiesBreadthCanyonsExpanseGiddyThickness Author:Bob Marshall