I have not been able to get onto the blog for a couple of days. Google posted "Service Unavailable". I really had not taken a hiatus.
I am researching lots of issues so writing has not been happening as I had planned. That I will change this coming week. One thing I found fascinating-that I did not know before- was Mike was born (May 1, 1929) at the Great Ormand Street Hospital in London. This hospital is famous for many reasons not the least of which it is the beneficiary, SINCE 1929, of all rights and monies of J. M. Barrie's play Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up. Now, That little coincidence of time and place could explain many things! Also, the acronym for the hospital is G.O.S.H., which is one of the more polite forms of responses Mike has elicited daily over the years. Nature: Nurture?
In my effort to "study" how others are addressing biography, I am reading The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. It has no relevance at all to Mike's life or career but... what a compelling story. The injustice makes me furious. The Immortal Life is the kind of creative non-fiction I am striving for. I am so aware I am NOT a typographic graphic artist; this will not be the textbook 'be-all, end-all' of Typography. I want to write a biography that allows me to present my subject, someone I have loved in many different ways, who through fate and effort guided the way people read and think. I will do this with the backing of exhaustive research promoting the theme 'that which drives him' in the best polished language at my disposal.
I also am bouncing between several stacks of typography books. I am learning.
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To add to your reading material of biographies, my children located my book, Stanley Morison, by Nicolas Barker, in my personal stacks in Texas. I expect it to arrive in the next day or so and will then forward it onto you. It has been a long time since I read it so I can't recall how good or useful it is... I'll leave that for you to decide.
Always, ELDRED
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