I wonder if I had been given as an adolescent a copy with such a cover
would I have developed such a love for aphorisms.
I had long ago passed it along. But I came upon it years later and picked it up for the nostalgia factor and that it sported the same cover I remembered from my teens:
And found within the imaginative verve of illustrations providing narrative appeal to the aphorisms. Who knew that Voltaire’s “Save me from my friends” would take the form of a duel about to unfold?
The title page truly describes this Hallmark Edition:
The French on Life and Love, Selected by Edward Lewis with frivolous illustrations in color by John Trotta.
And so for day 2393
02.07.2013