Re: Colouring In (was: Full set of 1st editions??)


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Posted by Peter Ceresole on October 11, 2004 at 07:08:14 from 80.177.22.49 user PeterC.

In Reply to: Re: Colouring In (was: Full set of 1st editions??) posted by Peter H on October 10, 2004 at 19:52:16:

Because we all have to learn to cope with boredom, and this process starts early.

You seem to be talking about the pacing of the books- I don't disagree with what you say about that. But I was talking- following on from- a remark about children colouring in AR's pictures. I can still remember doing this, maybe some 55 years ago. Not the detail, but my state of mind. I did it because while I was colouring in I was talking to the characters, imagining what they were doing, participating. I never had the idea that my books were sacred, or should be kept pristine. They were functional objects- pleasure machines, if you like, although I didn't think of them that way at the time.

I was brought up to believe that books were special, in that you didn't throw them away or burn them (this was immediately post-war) but you could certainly annotate them. They weren't sacred.

I've been re-reading some of my father's old books. He's written extensively in the margins of most of them. It certainly doesn't reduce the pleasure of reading them, for me, and colouring the Ransome books was, I think much the same.


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