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I just finished reading Ciaran Carson's fabulous Shamrock Tea, which you all must go and read now. Astute readers will remember me ordering this book before Christmas; I'd been saving it for one of those times when only a good book will make things better.
And it did. Carson is an amazing author, the kind who leaves me inarticulate and squeeish when I try to define just why he's so good. But that's a subject for another post. I am here today to tell you about my undying love for Wiki.
Carson is big into the Flemish masters. Big into them. Personally, I couldn't care less about most Western art postdating the thirteenth century. But Carson, through his enthusiasm, makes me interested.
The plot of Shamrock Tea hinges in large part on Jan van Eyck's painting, The Arnolfini Portrait. Quite a lot of it hinges on details not readily discernible in the small reproduction of the painting on the book's cover. But here comes Wiki with not only an article about the painting itself, but links to details of all those important little bits. Wiki, you rock.
That will be all.
And it did. Carson is an amazing author, the kind who leaves me inarticulate and squeeish when I try to define just why he's so good. But that's a subject for another post. I am here today to tell you about my undying love for Wiki.
Carson is big into the Flemish masters. Big into them. Personally, I couldn't care less about most Western art postdating the thirteenth century. But Carson, through his enthusiasm, makes me interested.
The plot of Shamrock Tea hinges in large part on Jan van Eyck's painting, The Arnolfini Portrait. Quite a lot of it hinges on details not readily discernible in the small reproduction of the painting on the book's cover. But here comes Wiki with not only an article about the painting itself, but links to details of all those important little bits. Wiki, you rock.
That will be all.