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Hugo Pratt & James Oliver Curwood (Adventure Tales as Constellations, or James Oliver Curwood and Hugo Pratt as producers of «objet imaginaires»First Clipping)
In his Un romanzo d’avventura, Alberto Ongaro wrote of his friend Hugo Pratt: «La notte continuava a conservare la sua strana quiete minacciosa come se fosse appostata in agguato nel cielo. Ma egli quasi sembrava non vederla. Ora i suoi pensieri lo trascinavano...
Notes Spinned Off of a Fragment on Memory from the Adventure Series: A Cluster of Quotations
… September, 1868, Far North of Scotland … Robert Louis Stevenson was traveling in a land of wind-ragged mist, foam, spray, and great, grey waves, where the wind always whistled and roared in the weeds on the cliff’s edge, the sea-birds screamed, the...
Notes Spinned Off of a Fragment on Memory from the Adventure Series: Another Cut-up Clipping
… the place told of nothing but dead bastion … … mariners and sea disaster came down upon the sand-hills shores … … a ship, a huge northernmost low sky & gray sea,bare, wind-ragged, white links, huddled hedge of elders, sea-birds screamed, the sand beating...
Notes Spinned Off of a Fragment on Memory from the Adventure Series: a Cut-up Prologue
… a land gleamed among the darker weed & the grim grey sea … … a rock outcropping forming a surf yacht upon the coast of wales —where the wind always whistled & sand-hills stood between it and the sea beating to windward on the horizon & rolling in along...
Rudiments
«I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and find it hard to believe. The names, the shapes of the woodlands, the courses of the roads and rivers, the prehistoric footsteps of man still distinctly traceable up hill and down dale, the mills...
At Play
Imagine a child who has a number of toy soldiers and a toy fort —troopers, their outpost, and Indians. However, he has just read a tale of pyrates and he doesn’t want to play as usual. Straightaway the troopers shift into Spanish soldiers and the Indians...
How To Read, Perhaps
« … substantial, healthy sustenance …» for imagery «is also available in certain, though by no means all, works of cheap literature … ans so it happens that the person who can see more deeply can find the elements he really needs in the lower depths of...
First Reconnaissance on the Field of Adventure
Happened or about to happen, adventure is an arousing, strange, or unforeseen event or experience —a chance —an hazardous undertaking as well as an alluring one for it holds a promise of oddity, of unknown —fate, doom, fortune, a commercial or financial...
Unbounded
… a vacant lot …… looking towards the setting sun …… a land beyond the worldsnow-covered and blue-shaded in winterwith wastes wilds and a long low ravine …… grasslands and moorlands and downs …… thickets and groves jungles and forests,swamps and canebrakes...
A Nether Picture from «Les Mohicans de Paris»
Treading the streets of Paris in the middle of the night to meet a beatiful lover, young Alexandre Dumas, «touriste noctambulant», carrying «ni canne, ni poignard, ni pistolets», passed always before a certain «porte voutée, à barreaux de fer», closed...