jaime[alyse]green

vintageanchor:

“Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.”
― A.S. Byatt

Birthday wishes to A.S. Byatt (born Antonia Susan Drabble today in 1936).  Dame Byatt won The Booker Prize in 1991 for POSSESSION.

Happy birthday, Dame Byatt! 

Hang on, lemme find your birthday blingee…

There we go. A proper celebration.

i12bent:

Writers today:

A.S. Byatt (b. Aug. 24, 1936) - a fine critic and a great representative of the British tradition for meaty historiographic and playful multi-level novels. She specializes in bringing the Victorian era into interpley with our postmodern world…

Photo Mark Gerson, June 1992 - modern bromide print (NPG, London)

God, was it a YEAR ago that I made The Best Blingee Ever? Must’ve been!

Dame Byatt, you are a complicated, prickly lady, and the end of Possession may be the most antifeminist thing I have ever loved, but goddamn are you an excellent writer, and dear to my heart for all time.

I find this sort of thing way too satisfying.