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His Butt: Beguiling the Senses and Enchanting the Mind: Photo Set Eight
“He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.”
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Illustration by Andrew Davidson
Andrew Timothy Davidson, born on the 13th of May 1958, is a British artist. He has illustrated two novels by Ted Hughes: the 1985 edition of “The Iron Man” and the 1993 “The Iron Woman”. Davidson also illustrated the 2002 edition of Jack London’s “The Call of the Wild”.
Hughes and Davidson won the 1985 Kurt Maschler Award for “The Iron Man”. The British award annually recognised one “work of imagination for children, in which text and illustration are integrated so that each enhances and balances the other.”
Photographer Unknown, (This Forgetfulness of Living)
“There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame.”
-Jack London, The Call of the Wild
Photographer Unknown, (A Call Was Sounding)
“Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and as often as he heard this call, mysteriously thrilling and luring, he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire and the beaten earth around it, and to plunge into the forest, and on and on, he knew not where or why; nor did he wonder where or why, the call sounding imperiously, deep in the forest.”
-Jack London, The Call of the Wild