Beach time!

At the beach
Long Island Sound

Walter Corbiere

Goddess Maat

The goddess Maat at the RISD Museum
From Dynasty 26
She was tiny. I liked her headdress.
Walter Corbiere

I wanted a picture of the bottom of a scarab-shaped box. It recounts events from the reign of Amenhotep III, but my camera phone doesnt quite have high enough resolution to catch all the little glyphs, especially through glass.
Walter F. Corbiere, III

The RISD Museum had another floor full of Old New England, Providence and China Trade history

Burton's 'Thousand Nights'(Arabian Nights) Poem from the Seventy-First Night

Page 179
Thousand Nights and a Night
By Sir Richard Francis Burton
Volume 2
Bagdad Edition
From the Seventy-First Night

A character improvises these lines, just makes them up on the fly......
Walter F. Corbiere, III

For friend who erst abode wi' me gree:
It minds me o' one who jilted me
Say sooth, thou fair sheet-lightning! shall glee?
O blamer! spare to me thy blame dree,
Of friend who left me, fain to flee;
All bliss hath fled the heart of me
He brimmed a bowl of merest pine, did he:
I see me, sweetheart, dead and gone
Time! I prithee bring our childhood back,
When joy and safety 'joyed we at me!
Who aids the hapless stranger-wight,
That wastes his days in lonely grief, must be?
Doomed us despite our will to bear and care.
And sore despair despaireth me
Crowning my cup with gladdest gree:
To mourn my bitter liberty.
We meet once more in joy and glee?
My Lord hath sent this dule to dree,
... Et cetera
The lines of the second column sometimes refer back to words in the first column. The structure applies the same words to two different moments in the character's thought process.

I've never seen a poem with this exact device, and I don't know what "dree" means. :)
Walter F. Corbiere, III

Volume 2 of the Shammar Edition

Volume 2 of the Shammar Edition
Between pages 234 and 235
Small plate signed:
A. Lalange, Fine(?) et Sp.(?)(tiny print)

It illustrates the ninety-third night,
"Tale of King Omar bin al-Nu'uman and his Sons"

Walter Corbiere, III

Free China Review March 1962

I can't seem to find other issues of this magazine anywhere

The binding of Richard Burton's Thousand Nights and a Night

Volume 1 of the Bagdad Edition!

Walter F. Corbiere, III is now the proud owner of this full 17-volume set of Burton's work.

Number 485 of the Bagdad edition

The full text of this set can also be found at

Burtoniana.org

Lenin's Collected Works: The original dust jacket to the 40-plus volume set

Published and translated by the Soviets in 1970.
Walter Corbiere, III

This is the 1971(?) edition.

After a day apart..

I missed her soooo much! A day of New York and I didnt see Lil while she was awake for more than 24 hours! Walter Corbiere III

Cultural Revolution English Textbook number 5 from 1970, 1971

Before liberation I toiled in the fields. The landlord and oppressed me cruelly.

The Communist Party comes. The sun appears.

Like the sun, Chairman Mao's works light up my heart. I study them every day.

I will never forget the bitter past. I will follow Chairman Mao closely and make revolution forever.

New Words and Expressions

cannot
propagate
drawing
before
toil
landlord
exploit
oppress
me
cruelly
appear

End of Text of Page 5

The Haeju Knitted Goods Factory, North Korean Magazine

Text of caption:
Various figured goods woven ceaselessly by duplex knitting machines are ready to be sent to cutting work-teams
Text of Title:
Increase in Production of Knitted Goods
THE HAEJU KNITTED GOODS FACTORY
End of text
Page numbered 14, lower left corner
Walter Corbiere

Caption Text:
Our socialist cooperative fields are fed with sufficient water and overcome easily severe droughts

End text

Page numbered 13 in the lower right hand corner

All of these pages are posted in order from the cover to the back. I’ll continue to enter the text of each page as well.

Walter Corbiere