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And OF COURSE there are pirates …

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #parody #kidlit #Childrensliterature #Davos #pirates

A copy of a double-page spread from Robert Louis Stevenson's MORAL EMBLEMS. On the left-hand page there is a crude woodcut illustration of a figure wearing a broad-brimmed hat, crouched on a rock and peering out to sea through a telescope. Above the sketched-in sea are clouds and two simple v-shapes representing birds in flight. On the right-hand page is a short poem:

Industrious pirate! see him sweep
The lonely bosom of the deep,
And daily the horizon scan
From Hatteras or Matapan.
Be sure, before that pirate’s old,
He will have made a pot of gold,
And will retire from all his labours
And be respected by his neighbours.
You also scan your life’s horizon
For all that you can clap your eyes on. — A copy of a double-page spread from Robert Louis Stevenson's MORAL EMBLEMS. On the left-hand page there is a crude woodcut illustration of a figure wearing a broad-brimmed hat, crouched on a rock and peering out to sea through a telescope. Above the sketched-in sea are clouds and two simple v-shapes representing birds in flight. On the right-hand page is a short poem: Industrious pirate! see him sweep The lonely bosom of the deep, And daily the horizon scan From Hatteras or Matapan. Be sure, before that pirate’s old, He will have made a pot of gold, And will retire from all his labours And be respected by his neighbours. You also scan your life’s horizon For all that you can clap your eyes on.

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@scotlit@mastodon.scot · 2 days ago

Lloyd Osbourne’s “Davos Press” enjoyed sufficient commercial success to pay Stevenson (very small) royalties. You can find scans of the originals on the National Library of Scotland website

https://digital.nls.uk/rlstevenson/browse/archive/99384212

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An advert, printed on a toy printing press in a variety of serif and sans-serif fonts. The words NOTICE and ILLUSTRATED are in a bold display font. Some letters are slightly under- or over-inked. The text reads:

NOTICE
Today is published by S. L. Osbourne & Co.
Ilustrated
BLACK CANYON,
or
Wild Adventures in the FAR WEST.
AN
Instructive and amusing TALE written by
SAMUEL LLOYD OSBOURNE
PRICE 6D.

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
Although Black Canyon is rather shorter than ordinary for that kind of story, it is an excellent work. We cordially recommend it to our readers.
Weekly Messenger

S. L. Osbourne's new work (Black Canyon) is splendidly illustrated. In the story, the characters are hold and striking. It reflects the highest honor on its writer.
Morning Call.

A very remarkable work. Every page produces an effect. The end is as singular as the beginning. I never saw such a work before.
R. L. Stevenson. — An advert, printed on a toy printing press in a variety of serif and sans-serif fonts. The words NOTICE and ILLUSTRATED are in a bold display font. Some letters are slightly under- or over-inked. The text reads: NOTICE Today is published by S. L. Osbourne & Co. Ilustrated BLACK CANYON, or Wild Adventures in the FAR WEST. AN Instructive and amusing TALE written by SAMUEL LLOYD OSBOURNE PRICE 6D. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. Although Black Canyon is rather shorter than ordinary for that kind of story, it is an excellent work. We cordially recommend it to our readers. Weekly Messenger S. L. Osbourne's new work (Black Canyon) is splendidly illustrated. In the story, the characters are hold and striking. It reflects the highest honor on its writer. Morning Call. A very remarkable work. Every page produces an effect. The end is as singular as the beginning. I never saw such a work before. R. L. Stevenson.

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@scotlit@mastodon.scot replied · 2 days ago

And OF COURSE there are pirates …

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #parody #kidlit #Childrensliterature #Davos #pirates

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@scotlit@mastodon.scot · 2 days ago

Davos was also where Stevenson produced his MORAL EMBLEMS – a parody of Victorian didactic rhymes for children. His 12-year-old stepson, Lloyd Osbourne, printed the chapbooks on a toy printing press & hawked them around the sanatorium.

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Title page of MORAL EMBLEMS, by Robert Louis Stevenson, printed in a variety of fonts:

MORAL
EMBLEMS

A
Collection of Cuts and Verses
by
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.
Author of
The Blue Scalper, Travels with a Donkey, Treasure Island, Not I etc.

Printers:
S. L. OSBOURNE & COMPANY.
Davos-Platz — Title page of MORAL EMBLEMS, by Robert Louis Stevenson, printed in a variety of fonts: MORAL EMBLEMS A Collection of Cuts and Verses by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. Author of The Blue Scalper, Travels with a Donkey, Treasure Island, Not I etc. Printers: S. L. OSBOURNE & COMPANY. Davos-Platz

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@scotlit@mastodon.scot replied · 2 days ago

Lloyd Osbourne’s “Davos Press” enjoyed sufficient commercial success to pay Stevenson (very small) royalties. You can find scans of the originals on the National Library of Scotland website

https://digital.nls.uk/rlstevenson/browse/archive/99384212

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #parody #kidlit #Childrensliterature #Davos

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@scotlit@mastodon.scot · 2 days ago

Some good things have come from Davos …

“It was here that Robert Louis Stevenson overcame his writer’s block and finished Treasure Island; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle started skiing in the Alps; and Thomas Mann thought of the idea for The Magic Mountain”

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https://lithub.com/a-brief-literary-history-of-davos/

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #SirArthurConanDoyle #Davos #writersblock #skiing #ThomasMann

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@scotlit@mastodon.scot replied · 2 days ago

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #parody #kidlit #Childrensliterature #Davos

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@scotlit@mastodon.scot · 2 days ago

Some good things have come from Davos …

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https://lithub.com/a-brief-literary-history-of-davos/

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #SirArthurConanDoyle #Davos #writersblock #skiing #ThomasMann

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@scotlit@mastodon.scot · 5 days ago

If a lion attacks
Stoop swiftly
Pick up two medium sized rock stones
And insert them deftly up his nostrils…

—Ivor Cutler, “Jungle Tip: Lion”

A poem / useful advice from LIFE IN A SCOTCH SITTING ROOM, vol. II (Methuen, 1984)

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If a lion attacks
Stoop swiftly
Pick up two medium sized rock stones
And insert them deftly up his nostrils
He will forget your presence temporarily
In an attempt to remove the foreign bodies
But do not wait around
For he will bound after you
And you will not play your trick a second time — If a lion attacks Stoop swiftly Pick up two medium sized rock stones And insert them deftly up his nostrils He will forget your presence temporarily In an attempt to remove the foreign bodies But do not wait around For he will bound after you And you will not play your trick a second time

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@scotlit@mastodon.scot · 5 days ago

“I have a harmonium and it’s going to explode in two minutes”

Ivor Cutler (1923–2006) – poet, singer, musician, songwriter, artist, humorist – was born #OTD, 15 Jan

In 2013, to mark what would have been his 90th birthday, BBC Radio 4 celebrated his life & career:

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0381jzt

#Scottish #literature #poetry #music #humour #surrealism #absurdist #IvorCutler

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BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, Ivor Cutler at 90

A celebration of the 90th anniversary of poet, humourist and absurdist Ivor Cutler.

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@scotlit@mastodon.scot replied · 5 days ago

If a lion attacks
Stoop swiftly
Pick up two medium sized rock stones
And insert them deftly up his nostrils…

—Ivor Cutler, “Jungle Tip: Lion”

A poem / useful advice from LIFE IN A SCOTCH SITTING ROOM, vol. II (Methuen, 1984)

2/7

#Scottish #literature #poetry #music #humour #surrealism #absurdist #IvorCutler

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@scotlit@mastodon.scot · 5 days ago

“I have a harmonium and it’s going to explode in two minutes”

Ivor Cutler (1923–2006) – poet, singer, musician, songwriter, artist, humorist – was born #OTD, 15 Jan

In 2013, to mark what would have been his 90th birthday, BBC Radio 4 celebrated his life & career:

1/7

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0381jzt

#Scottish #literature #poetry #music #humour #surrealism #absurdist #IvorCutler

BBC

BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, Ivor Cutler at 90

A celebration of the 90th anniversary of poet, humourist and absurdist Ivor Cutler.

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Network of Scottish X accounts go dark amid Iran blackout

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#HackerNews #Network #Scottish #X #accounts #Iran #blackout #socialmedia #news

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@scotlit@mastodon.scot · 2 weeks ago

Up in the morning’s no for me,
Up in the morning early;
When a’ the hills are cover’d wi’ snaw,
I’m sure it’s winter fairly…

—“Up in the Morning Early”, by Robert Burns – poet of the people 🫡

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/morning-early/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thCentury #RobertBurns #winter

Up in the Morning Early
by Robert Burns

Cauld blaws the wind frae east to west,
The drift is driving sairly;
Sae loud and shrill I hear the blast,
I’m sure it’s winter fairly.

CHORUS
Up in the morning’s no for me,
Up in the morning early;
When a’ the hills are cover’d wi’ snaw,
I’m sure its winter fairly.

The birds sit chittering in the thorn,
A’ day they fare but sparely;
And lang’s the night frae e’en to morn,
I’m sure it’s winter fairly.

CHORUS
Up in the morning’s no for me,
Up in the morning early;
When a’ the hills are cover’d wi’ snaw,
I’m sure its winter fairly. — Up in the Morning Early by Robert Burns Cauld blaws the wind frae east to west, The drift is driving sairly; Sae loud and shrill I hear the blast, I’m sure it’s winter fairly. CHORUS Up in the morning’s no for me, Up in the morning early; When a’ the hills are cover’d wi’ snaw, I’m sure its winter fairly. The birds sit chittering in the thorn, A’ day they fare but sparely; And lang’s the night frae e’en to morn, I’m sure it’s winter fairly. CHORUS Up in the morning’s no for me, Up in the morning early; When a’ the hills are cover’d wi’ snaw, I’m sure its winter fairly.

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@scotlit@mastodon.scot · 2 weeks ago

Up in the morning’s no for me,
Up in the morning early;
When a’ the hills are cover’d wi’ snaw,
I’m sure it’s winter fairly…

—“Up in the Morning Early”, by Robert Burns – poet of the people 🫡

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/morning-early/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thCentury #RobertBurns #winter

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@kristiedegaris@mastodon.scot · 3 weeks ago

Bliadhna mhath ùr / Happy new year when it comes

Photo is from this morning, looking over the River Tay as the sun rose. -5°C and beautiful.

#Scotland #Perthshire #Photography #Scottish #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #Nikon

A colour photograph of a misty hillside covered in winter trees, their branches dusted with frost and lit by low golden sunlight. A river runs along the bottom edge of the frame.

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@kristiedegaris@mastodon.scot · 3 weeks ago

Bliadhna mhath ùr / Happy new year when it comes

Photo is from this morning, looking over the River Tay as the sun rose. -5°C and beautiful.

#Scotland #Perthshire #Photography #Scottish #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #Nikon

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@scotlit@mastodon.scot · last month

“Hogg defied categorisation. A prolific poet, songwriter, playwright, novelist, short story writer & parodist, he wrote with equal skill in Scots & English”

James Hogg, AKA “the Ettrick Shepherd” (1770–1835, DOB unknown) was baptised #OTD, 9 Dec

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https://theconversation.com/james-hogg-at-250-the-farmhand-who-became-one-of-scotlands-greatest-storytellers-155534

#Scottish #literature #JamesHogg #romanticism #gothic #18thcentury #19thcentury

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@scotlit@mastodon.scot · last month

“Hogg defied categorisation. A prolific poet, songwriter, playwright, novelist, short story writer & parodist, he wrote with equal skill in Scots & English”

James Hogg, AKA “the Ettrick Shepherd” (1770–1835, DOB unknown) was baptised #OTD, 9 Dec

🧵

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https://theconversation.com/james-hogg-at-250-the-farmhand-who-became-one-of-scotlands-greatest-storytellers-155534

#Scottish #literature #JamesHogg #romanticism #gothic #18thcentury #19thcentury

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@scotlit@mastodon.scot · 2 months ago

“[P]ay attention to the moments of contradiction and uncertainty threaded through character dialogue and self-reflection […] Watch his tone. Watch his humour. For me, that’s where the sharpest lessons are.”

—Bethany Jacobs on the worldbuilding of Iain M. Banks

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2506129-why-sci-fi-novelist-iain-m-banks-was-an-astounding-world-builder/

#Scottish #literature #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture #ScienceFiction #Scifi #worldbuilding

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@scotlit@mastodon.scot · 2 months ago

“Scottishness is not some pedigree lineage. This is a mongrel tradition!”

William McIlvanney (1936–2015) – author & poet (& provider, at a rally in Edinburgh in 1992, of our profile header, as quoted in Neal Ascherson’s 2002 book STONE VOICES) – was born #OTD, 25 November

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And then, in a tone of tremendous pride, he said this. “Scottishness is not some pedigree lineage. This is a mongrel tradition!” At those words, for reasons which perhaps neither he nor they ever quite understood, the crowd broke into cheers and applause which lasted on and on.

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@scotlit@mastodon.scot · 2 months ago

—Bethany Jacobs on the worldbuilding of Iain M. Banks

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2506129-why-sci-fi-novelist-iain-m-banks-was-an-astounding-world-builder/

#Scottish #literature #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture #ScienceFiction #Scifi #worldbuilding

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@scotlit@mastodon.scot · 2 months ago

Dr David Goldie discusses LAIDLAW, William McIlvanney’s first detective novel – video from our 2018 Schools Conference

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOA8S5_rq2M&list=PLEP9HxY4X7WZwMUjyxVcQZ8J2K1gp3_Nh

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #WilliamMcIlvanney #CrimeFiction #TartanNoir

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@scotlit@mastodon.scot replied · 2 months ago

Tartan Noir, or, Hard-Boiled Heidegger

Prof Matt Wickman asks, What does William McIlvanney’s LAIDLAW tell us about the literary tradition within which it is embedded? & how might the novel help us conceptualise the political state of Scotland?

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https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/tartan_noir/

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