Status Updates From My Friend Annabel Lee

“Then you are very bad and wicked yourself, you poor, miserable, little rat,” said my friend Annabel Lee, with her cigarette, “and the world and all good people will condemn you.”

“He was ugly, but his face was perfect."

“You,” said Annabel Lee, “with your half-conscious soul, when you sit where the gray waves wash the sea-wall at high-tide, when you sit listening with your head bent and your hands dead cold, you think you realize your life—you think you know its hardness—you think you have [42]measured the cruelty they will give you; but you do not know. You know but half—you weep for the other half, though it be horror.

Interesting book, though not a page-turner by any means.

Surprised to be enjoying this one too. Much better than anticipated.

I always feel like there should be an illustrated version of this. 'A Story of Spoon-Bills' and 'Little Willy Kaatenstein' and so on could be done in the style of Rene Cloke; and the more fanciful stuff, like, 'Another Vision of Annabel Lee', could be done in the style of Warwick Goble and the other Fairy Book illustrators.

'Muddled Maud would carry herself with little effort - she would adorn herself with her luncheon - a long bit of sausage-link about her neck like a chain, and upon her hat, held securely with bonnet-pins, fat yellow lemons, and two bananas crossed in front like the tiny guns on a soldier's hat, and bunches of Catawba grapes scattered here and there, and pears hanging by their little stems behind.'