Winding Up the Week #490

An end of week recap “I am, by calling, a dealer in words; and words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. Not only do words infect, ergotise, narcotise, and paralyse, but they enter into and colour the minutest cells of the brain, very much as madder mixed with a stag’s food at the Zoo colours the growth of the animal’s antlers. Moreover, in the case of the human animal, that acquired tint, or taint, is transmissible.” – Rudyard Kipling (A Book of Words, 1928) The final two days of Children’s Book Week are happening in the USA, Canada and Australia this weekend, while Sunday is I Love to Write Day in both the UK and the USA. Tomorrow, meanwhile, is Day of the Imprisoned Writer, observed around the world in support of writers who face persecution, imprisonment or censorship. Literary sorts making their entrance into the world on this day include the Polish poet Leopold Staff (1878), Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays Astrid Lindgren (1907), American author and…

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