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They have all had novels dedicated to them. The art of dedicating a book was the subject of the very first post I wrote for Books in the City, and every year on the anniversary I like to pass on some intriguing dedications I've run into over the course of the year. Here is this year's selection.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-gjoYyQeivD0\/UFQL58ZiI5I\/AAAAAAAAIgU\/pfmLGDKrRVk\/s1600\/eugenie_grandet.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-gjoYyQeivD0\/UFQL58ZiI5I\/AAAAAAAAIgU\/pfmLGDKrRVk\/s320\/eugenie_grandet.jpg\" height=\"140\" width=\"90\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Cb\u003E1. From \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b1143602\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EEugénie Grandet\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E by Honoré de Balzac:\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"To Maria: \u003Cbr \/\u003EYour portrait is the fairest ornament of this book, and here it is fitting that your name should be set, like the branch of box taken from some unknown garden to lie for a while in the holy water, and afterwards set by pious hands above the threshold, where the green spray, ever renewed, is a sacred talisman to ward off all evil from the house. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; -- \u003C\/b\u003EDE BALZAC\u003Cb\u003E\"\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDid anyone else besides me think that “box hedges” had that name because they were trimmed into box-like shapes? No! “Box” is “box” because its wood, being non-warping, is prized for making ornamental boxes. And perhaps even more relevant here, the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/gardenofeaden.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/story-and-history-of-common-box.html#ixzz252CsvVqg\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E“Garden of Eaden” blog\u003C\/a\u003E where I learned that goes on to say that “One of the charms of common box is the delicious musky smell it gives off after a period of rain”. Apparently England's dullest monarch (just my opinion) Queen Anne found the smell so unbearable that she had all the box in St. James Park ripped out.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWho was Maria? No one knows for sure. I like the theory that she was a girl whom Balzac described in a letter around the time he was writing Eugénie Grandet as a \"poor, simple and delightful bourgeoise”, although the author of\u003Ci\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Women_in_the_Life_of_Balzac\/Chapter_IV\/Part_VI\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EWomen in the life of Balzac\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E, which I’ve only seen in an online version but imagine must be a nice thick book in hard copy, points out that she doesn’t fit the type: the women to whom Balzac dedicates his books, while they come in many shapes, eg “members of his family, old family friends, literary friends, rich people to whom he was indebted, women of the nobility, or women whom he loved for a time at least”, had in common that they were all women “whom he could respect and recognize in society”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENot like the simple bourgeoise Balzac characterised as “the most naive creature that ever was, fallen like a flower from heaven\". He also records a phrase she wrote to him, which I suppose could be thought of as \u003Ci\u003Eher\u003C\/i\u003E dedication to him. I’m not sure if is extremely naïve, or not naïve at all:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Love me a year, and I will love you all my life.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-DDG1Wc-o_HQ\/UFQMtcxM9JI\/AAAAAAAAIgg\/RE-z7ICDlko\/s1600\/neil_gaiman.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-DDG1Wc-o_HQ\/UFQMtcxM9JI\/AAAAAAAAIgg\/RE-z7ICDlko\/s320\/neil_gaiman.jpg\" height=\"140\" width=\"90\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Cb\u003E2. From\u003Ci\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2138092\"\u003EAnansi Boys\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E by Neil Gaiman\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"You know how it is. You pick up a book, flip to the dedication, and find that, once again, the author has dedicated a book to someone else and not you. Not this time. Because we haven't yet met \/ have only a glancing acquaintance \/ are just crazy about each other \/ haven't seen each other in much too long \/ are in some way related \/ will never meet, but will, I trust, despite that, always think fondly of each other... this one's for you. With you know what, and you probably know why.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-SrGDWXEPwLo\/UFQM8OVRj7I\/AAAAAAAAIgs\/1mW-sk-5R6k\/s1600\/just_my_type.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-SrGDWXEPwLo\/UFQM8OVRj7I\/AAAAAAAAIgs\/1mW-sk-5R6k\/s320\/just_my_type.jpg\" height=\"140\" width=\"90\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E I came across this a few months ago during a moment of particular fondness for Neil Gaiman after he “shared his reading habits” (this the title of the feature) in the New York Times Sunday Book Review. In my case, the word \"share\" really did mean “share”, as opposed to a new-speak way of saying “tell about”, because I had been reading the same book. It is\u003Ci\u003E Just my type: A Book about Fonts\u003C\/i\u003E and Neil got a lot of points in my book for telling (sorry, sharing) this wonderful story:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"My 'make this last as long as you can' book is \u003Ci\u003EJust My Type: A Book About Fonts\u003C\/i\u003E. It’s illuminated a subject I thought I understood, but I didn’t, and its chapter on the wrongnesses of Comic Sans came alive for me recently visiting a friend at a Florida retirement community, in which every name on every door was printed in Comic Sans. The elderly deserve more respect than that. Except for the lady I was visiting, widow of a comics artist. For her, it might have been appropriate.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-5rYu3_mPurQ\/UFQNo9p3DbI\/AAAAAAAAIg4\/-ysvr9Z8H_k\/s1600\/edmond_rostand.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-5rYu3_mPurQ\/UFQNo9p3DbI\/AAAAAAAAIg4\/-ysvr9Z8H_k\/s320\/edmond_rostand.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"128\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Cb\u003E3. From \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2688594\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ECyrano de Bergerac\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E by Edmond Rostand\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"It was to the soul of CYRANO that I intended to dedicate this poem. But since that soul has been reborn in you, COQUELIN, it is to you that I dedicate it. ~E.R.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003ECyrano de Bergerac\u003C\/i\u003E, which we all think of as a play but which is, as its author states in the dedication, a poem, being written in rhyming couplets, always seems like such a period piece, I don’t know, maybe because Gerard Depardieu played both Cyrano and Porthos of \u003Ci\u003EThe Three Musketeers\u003C\/i\u003E as well as -- I just learned at Central Library's Balzac celebration -- the lead in what Nicholas Reid considers the best film ever made from a Balzac novel, the Napoleonic Wars-era \u003Ci\u003EColonel Chabert\u003C\/i\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut appearances can be misleading, especially since, as the verse (author undeservedly forgotten) I love to quote goes, \"I think that I shall never view, a French film without Depardieu\", and \u003Ci\u003ECyrano \u003C\/i\u003Eis actually more contemporary than most people realise, a grandiose revisitation of overblown French romantic literature: a bit of a spoof, and a lot of homage.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe author of \u003Ci\u003ECyrano\u003C\/i\u003E, Edmond Rostand, died in 1918 aged only 50, a victim of the terrible flu epidemic. His son Maurice was well-known in Parisian society in the inter-war period as what was once called a \"homosexual personality\", a friend of Jean Cocteau and frequenter of literary salons with the likes of Marcel Proust.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt is fitting that Rostand should have dedicated \u003Ci\u003ECyrano \u003C\/i\u003Eto the famous actor who starred in the prodigiously successful play (500 performances in a row), because Constant Coquelin's talents were a major inspiration for the play, especially the magnificent ending, which Coquelin is said to have collaborated on, where Cyrano tragically expires on stage, throwing his duelling sword into the air and declaring that there is one thing no one can take away from him -- his \u003Ci\u003Epanache\u003C\/i\u003E, his white plume, the symbol of his bravery and his honour.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHere's a great trailer for the 1950 movie of \u003Ci\u003ECyrano \u003C\/i\u003Ewhich starred Jose Ferrer - with quite a bit more nose putty than the Gallic Gerard Depardieu required, but just as much, if not more, panache:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V2gNM68Nl_w\" width=\"420\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E4. From \u003Ci\u003EThe Shadow-line\u003C\/i\u003E by Joseph Conrad\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/f\/f6\/Shadow_line.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/f\/f6\/Shadow_line.jpg\" width=\"131\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\"To\u003Cbr \/\u003EBorys and all others\u003Cbr \/\u003Ewho like himself have crossed\u003Cbr \/\u003Ein early youth the shadow-line\u003Cbr \/\u003Eof their generation\u003Cbr \/\u003EWith Love\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI had heard about people having to cross their shadow-line and used the expression myself in various ways it suggested itself to me for years before I actually read the book and found out precisely what Conrad meant by the term. The Shadow-line, he explains in the opening, is the moment of passage between youth and maturity, the moment when youth must be left behind.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“What moments?” he asks. “Why, the moments of boredom, of weariness, of dissatisfaction. Rash moments. I mean moments when the still young are inclined to commit rash actions.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe also points out -- I love this -- that he doesn’t mean the very young, because the very young, \"strictly speaking, have no moments at all\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs for the dedication, in September 1915 as Conrad was completing the manuscript of \u003Ci\u003EThe Shadow-Line\u003C\/i\u003E, his son Borys enlisted in the British Army, heading for the killing fields of France -- the Somme, in his case. He made it home alive and fifty years later he wrote a memoir (\u003Ci\u003EMy father, Joseph Conrad\u003C\/i\u003E) in which he looks affectionately at his famous father but where he also notes that his father, with his old-fashioned manners, had a difficult time expressing his love. In person.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-JzodwlFPthA\/UFQO9tej5OI\/AAAAAAAAIhQ\/ypdLH2WM6Yo\/s1600\/edward_gorey.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-JzodwlFPthA\/UFQO9tej5OI\/AAAAAAAAIhQ\/ypdLH2WM6Yo\/s320\/edward_gorey.jpg\" height=\"320\" width=\"205\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Cb\u003E5. From \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2272996\"\u003EAmphigorey Again\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E by Edward Gorey\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"In fond collaborative memory… \u003Cbr \/\u003EAddeé Gorrwy\u003Cbr \/\u003EAedwyrd Goré\u003Cbr \/\u003EAgowy Erderd\u003Cbr \/\u003ED. Awdrey-Gore\u003Cbr \/\u003EDeary Rewdgo\u003Cbr \/\u003EDedge Yarrow\u003Cbr \/\u003EDewda Yorger\u003Cbr \/\u003EDogear Wryde\u003Cbr \/\u003EDora Greydew\u003Cbr \/\u003EDreary Wodge\u003Cbr \/\u003EDrew Dogyear\u003Cbr \/\u003EE.G. Deadworry\u003Cbr \/\u003EEdgar E. Wordy\u003Cbr \/\u003EEduard Blutig\u003Cbr \/\u003EEdward Pig\u003Cbr \/\u003EGarrod Weedy\u003Cbr \/\u003EGary Dredwoe\u003Cbr \/\u003EGrey Redwoad\u003Cbr \/\u003EGroeda Weyrd\u003Cbr \/\u003EO. Müde \u003Cbr \/\u003EOgdred Weary\u003Cbr \/\u003EOm\u003Cbr \/\u003EOrde Graykdw\u003Cbr \/\u003ERaddory Gewe\u003Cbr \/\u003ERegera Dowdy\u003Cbr \/\u003ERoger Addyew \u003Cbr \/\u003ERoy Grewdead\u003Cbr \/\u003EWardore Edgy\u003Cbr \/\u003EWaredo Dyrge\u003Cbr \/\u003EWee Graddory\u003Cbr \/\u003EYdora Wredge\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Table of Contents of \u003Ci\u003EAmphigorey Again\u003C\/i\u003E testifies to the originality and fruitfulness of these many collaborators (I started out thinking I would just copy a few, to give you the idea, but when it came time to leave some off, I just couldn't):\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe galoshes of remorse -- Signs of spring -- Seasonal confusion -- Random walk -- Category -- The other statue -- 10 impossible objects (abridged) -- The universal solvent (abridged) -- Scenes de Ballet -- Verse advice -- The deadly blotter -- Creativity -- The retrieved locket -- The water flowers -- The haunted tea-cosy -- Christmas wrap-up -- The headless bust -- The just dessert -- The admonitory hippopotamus -- Neglected murderesses -- Tragedies topiares -- The raging tide -- The unknown vegetable -- Another random walk -- Serious life : a cruise -- Figbash acrobate -- La Malle Saignante -- The izzard book.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYes, long before there was Lemony Snickett, long before there was Tim Burton, there was Edward Gorey, whose first book came out in 1953. And before Edward Gorey, there were Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll. There are a few clips of Edward Gorey floating around on youtube, mostly from interviews made in preparation for a documentary which as far as I can see never got made, which does seem to fit with the Edward Gorey spirit. Here's one where he talks about the nonsense line of the English literature family tree. You're in for a surprise, unless you expect Gorey to have a strong American accent, and to be wearing a yellow slicker rather than a velvet, perhaps threadworn, suit:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ciframe allowFullScreen='true' webkitallowfullscreen='true' mozallowfullscreen='true' width='320' height='266' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/444lf0a0ot0?feature=player_embedded' FRAMEBORDER='0' \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd at \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.goreyography.com\/\"\u003Ewww.goreyography.com\u003C\/a\u003E  you can read such gems as \"Growing up Gorey\": Maurice Sendak, Alison Lurie and Andreas Brown all agree, Gorey is a Good Thing for the Kids.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/feeds\/7755500041719103011\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2012\/08\/book-dedications-n5.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/7755500041719103011"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/7755500041719103011"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2012\/08\/book-dedications-n5.html","title":"Book dedications n.5"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"tosca"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"28","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-DKeaBNqmKUo\/VBStvJvL4cI\/AAAAAAAAR4M\/ZsfOjoSDymI\/s1600\/*"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-gjoYyQeivD0\/UFQL58ZiI5I\/AAAAAAAAIgU\/pfmLGDKrRVk\/s72-c\/eugenie_grandet.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}}]}});