{"id":40604,"date":"2022-10-20T06:30:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T17:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=40604"},"modified":"2022-10-16T18:51:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T05:51:37","slug":"gorgeous-words-a-quote-by-angela-carter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2022\/10\/20\/gorgeous-words-a-quote-by-angela-carter\/","title":{"rendered":"Gorgeous Words: A Quote by Angela Carter"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em><span style=\"color: #333333;\">\u201cOctober, crisp, misty, golden October, when the light is sweet and heavy.\u201d<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<\/em>\u00a0\u2015 Angela Carter, 1940-1992<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-37828 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Autumn-across-the-river_2020-04-21-14.26.44-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Autumn-across-the-river_2020-04-21-14.26.44-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Autumn-across-the-river_2020-04-21-14.26.44-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Autumn-across-the-river_2020-04-21-14.26.44-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">~*~<\/p>\n<p>I love this quote by <a href=\"https:\/\/literature.britishcouncil.org\/writer\/angela-carter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Angela Carter<\/a>, which I feel epitomizes the \u201cgorgeous words\u201d tag.<\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2019\/06\/10\/what-im-reading-the-bloody-chamber-by-angela-carter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 10, 2019<\/a>, I reviewed Angela Carter\u2019s seminal short fiction collection, <strong><em>The Bloody Tower<\/em><\/strong>, and mentioned then that the work:<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #333333;\">\u201c &#8230; stands out \u2026 for the amazing use of language \u2026 [comprising] \u2026 the bold and the bawdy, the richly sensual and the outright sexual, and the bloody and savage.\u201d<\/span> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36723\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/The-Bloody-Chamber.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/The-Bloody-Chamber.jpg 256w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/The-Bloody-Chamber-96x150.jpg 96w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/The-Bloody-Chamber-192x300.jpg 192w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No surprises then, that quotes like today\u2019s can still make me catch my breath, both as a reader and an author.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOctober, crisp, misty, golden October, when the light is sweet and heavy.\u201d . \u00a0\u2015 Angela Carter, 1940-1992 ~*~ I love this quote by Angela Carter, which I feel epitomizes the \u201cgorgeous words\u201d tag. On June 10, 2019, I reviewed Angela Carter\u2019s seminal short fiction collection, The Bloody Tower, and mentioned then that the work: \u201c [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-general","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40604"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40609,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40604\/revisions\/40609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}