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| Barbara Holland 1933-2010 |
"Still," she writes, "there are books, other books, that will never lead to success but that provide an odd, separate, impractical pleasure not offered by anything else on earth. I don't mean noble ideas or philosophical insights, since I seem to be immune to them both, but the books that move permanently into one's head and construct their own space there, a kind of walled garden full of tame dragons, that we can walk around in whenever we want."
I love that image. I find I have a garden that holds Scout dressed in her pumpkin outfit walking home through the rustling leaves. Another garden contains Zuckerman's farm and a clever spider named Charlotte endlessly spinning her web. Still another is a garden within a garden - a Secret Garden discovered by lonely orphan Mary Lennox.
Who or what inhabits your walled gardens?
Actually, the same characters that inhabit yours, but, I would add the artist/illustrator/writer/and gardener extraordinaire Tasha Tudor.
ReplyDeleteMy library system has Endangered Pleasures and I will check this out sometime soon.
I have a picture in my mind of Ms. Tudor standing in her garden wearing a sun bonnet! I know of her but don't know much about her. I will have to investigate. Thanks.
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