"Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment that was known as Camelot..."

"When Jack quoted something, it was usually classical," she said, "but I'm so ashamed of myself ~ all I keep thinking of is this line from a musical comedy.

"At night, before we'd go to sleep, Jack liked to play some records;  and the song he loved most came at the very end of this record.  The lines he loved to hear were:  don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment that was known as Camelot.

"She wanted to make sure that the point came clear and went on:  'There'll be great Presidents again ~ and the Johnsons are wonderful, they've been wonderful to me ~ but there'll never be another Camelot again.'"

~ Jacqueline Kennedy (1929 - 1994) First Lady of U.S.A.
Source:  An Epilogue by Theodore H. White for LIFE, 25th Anniversary Special. 1988.

"He belongs to the people..."  Jackie Kennedy

Photos:  Courtesy of Scott Walker

Knowledge ~

"That we are made and intended to pursue knowledge is as certain as that we are made and intended for the improvement of our estate and we cannot tell how far or to what revelations the pursuit may lead us."

~ Goldwin Smith (1823 - 1910) British historian, essayist, journalist.

"What is more contemptible than a civilization that scorns knowledge of itself?"

 ~ John Ralston Saul (b. 1947) Canadian author, Past-President of PEN International (Postsecondary Education Network).

~ FAMOUS LASTING WORDS Great Canadian Quotations, J. R. Colombo, Douglas & McIntyre Ltd., 2000.

Moment in the bookshop ~ captured by Kim Jeffrey.
Alan Bishop, John Passfield & John Ballinger


Thank you, Kim

Neecha

Beautiful Neecha brings happiness to folks who don't often get to pet or observe a dog.  She is not new at socializing ~ she is thirteen years old, rolls over, sits up ~ all the time enjoying people.

This little dog brings a smile to folks in Grandview Lodge and Edgewater in Dunnville.  Yesterday she visited The Neat L'l Bookshop.  Come back soon, Neecha.

Testament of Youth/Testament of Friendship/Testament of Experience ~

Vera Brittain was born at Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire in December, 1893, the daughter of a wealthy manufacturer.  During World War I she served as a VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment) nurse, an experience which interrupted her studies at Oxford and which she recounted in her autobiographical Testament of Youth (1933).
Although Vera wrote numerous volumes of poetry and fiction, she is more widely known for two later works:  Testament of Friendship (1940) and Testament of Experience (1957).

Her brother, her fiance and two close friends were killed in the war leading Vera toward becoming a pacifist.  She died in 1970.

Source:  The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English, Ian Ousby, 1993.

Today in The Neat L'l Bookshop the topic:  Poetry WWI including Vera Brittain ~ Dr. Alan Bishop.  Everyone welcome.

Photo: Wikipedia



Elizabeth's Seven-Eyed "Grandpa Beaver"



On Childrens' Day ~

"I wanted to draw a dog.  I sat beside Carlow's kennel and stared at him for a long time.  Then I took a charred stick from the grate, split open a large brown-paper sack and drew a dog on the sack.

"My married sister who had taken drawing lessons looked at my dog and said, 'Not bad.'  Father spread the drawing on top of his newspaper, put on his spectacles, looked, and said, 'Um!'  Mother said, 'You are blacked with charred wood, wash!'  The paper sack was found years later among Father's papers.  He had written on it, "By Emily, aged eight."

~GROWING PAINS The Autobiography of Emily Carr,  Clarke Irwin & Company Ltd., 1946.