Autobiography of red characters cartoons
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“Immortality on Their Faces”: The Persistence of Autobiography of Red
An artist’s life is an unconventional life….It appears to rebel but in reality it is an inspired way of life.
xxxx—Agnes Martin, “Advice to Young Artists”
I’m reading Anne Carson again. I didn’t know what else to do; a former lover recently took his life, in a way that my mind keeps replaying, on a secluded beach in Hawaii. Carson’s scholarship on ancient Greek love is strangely consoling. With any two lovers, she writes in Eros the Bittersweet, there is “erotic emotion that sets the interval between two people vibrating.” On my first date with Brian, after a few beers, we walked down a sycamore-lined street in my neighborhood, trading puns, teaching each other the names of subtropical plants. The interval between us was abuzz. I’m remembering his dark, deer-like eyes, his understated snowboarder masculinity—and the vastness between us, his frustrating unknowability. And I recall one of my favorite li
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Clifford the Big Red Dog
American children's book series
This article is about the children's book series. For the character in other media, see Clifford the Big Red Dog (disambiguation).
Author | Norman Bridwell |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Children |
Publisher | Scholastic |
Published | –present |
Clifford the Big Red Dog is an American children's book series about the adventures of a girl named Emily Elizabeth and her titular pet: a gigantic, red-furred dog named Clifford. It was first published in and was written by Norman Bridwell.[1] Clifford is Scholastic's official mascot.[2]
Concept and creation
[edit]The character was inspired by author Norman Bridwell's childhood desire to own a dog the size of a horse.[3] In , Bridwell included paintings of what would become Clifford the Big Red Dog (who was named ‘Tiny’ at the time) in a portfolio of children's literature illustrations. In the process of
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