Speech is the twin of my vision…

Beast of prey + monk = chess­master

HiLo hooker books for the “Hooker Booker”

Precisely how much more brightly than a normal sparkle does a divine sparkle shine?

Welcome to the McLuhan Dome! Tonight: “hot” print vs. “cool” comic book.

Did Ing­mar Berg­man invent the death-playing-chess meme?

When did murder in a bookshop or library become a middlebrow meme?…

Here PROSPERO discovers FERDINAND and MIRANDA playing at chess
MIRANDA: Sweet lord, you…

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An occasional series, which follows up on themes explored in the ten-part…

My little love, do you remember,
Ere we were grown so sadly wise,
Those…

In the latest issue of Print Magazine, the graphic designer and design…

Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) studies Famous First Editions at the Hollywood Public…

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An occasional series, which follows up on themes explored in the ten-part…

“Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player…

Ellen (Gene Tierney) reads to Richard (Cornel Wilde) from his own (middlebrow)…

“The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these…

“The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the…

Meta-commentary: Researching pulp cover illustrations in which books are featured is exceedingly…

“At present my life can almost be likened to what a chess-piece…

Scene from The 39 Steps (d. Hitchcock: 1935), in which Sheriff Watson…

DINNER.
Not a little fit, not a little fit sun sat in shed…

This book-shaped object is a Tabloid-brand medicine box, manufactured by the British…

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ORANGE: Egmont, our interests have for years weighed upon my heart; I…