Who knew? Everyone apparently.
We asked – and ask – what’s your favourite Robert Louis Stevenson novel, essay, poem or qoute? Here’s what Twitter told us…
@ScottishHistory “Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.” #RLSday
@Ian_Fraser “Lastly (and this is perhaps the golden rule), no woman should marry a teetotaller or a man who does not smoke” Virginibus Puerisque #RLSday
@Ian_Fraser
”To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and true success is to labour” El Dorado #RLSday
@ByLeavesWeLive’My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky. /It’s time to take the window to see Leerie going by’ from The Lamplighter #RLSday
@GentleOtter “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant”. #RLSday
Add your own at @bellacaledonia or via #RLSday or in comments…
A toss up between Treasure Island and Kidnapped – both great fun and very informative.
Thrawn Janet or The Bodysnatchers – heard them read by the late Leonard Maguire at Aberdeen Arts Centre and, despite being in a crowded theatre, could still feel the hairs on the back of my neck prickling.
The Wrong Box —very funny. And lots of memories of trawling 2nd hand bookshops till I had the whole works in the wee pocket-sized Tusitala Edition..
“(…) the Englishman sits apart, bursting with pride and ignorance (…)” (RLS, Memories and Portraits, 1887): http://tinyurl.com/bw9drdn
‘Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary’
(Familiar Studies of Men and Books, 1882)
TI: “here and now, boys”