Leap Year, Baby....

"I treated art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction."
-- Oscar Wilde

Count  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola 

When Balthazar Klossowski turned six, he had a large birthday party in his family's apartment in Paris. Birthdays were a funny business for "Baltusz" — as everyone called him. Since he had been born on February 29 in 1908, his family did not know precisely when to celebrate except on leap years.....

to re-phrase OW
 and succinctly(my favourite word) sum up B...
Life is an absurd Fiction-Folly,
only Art contains any Truth and Beauty.

Holiday Book List....

Lots of great books lately,

any will make wonderful gifts.

All have made their way to my shelves.....

Daphne

 Chanel

Karl

Rosamond

Deborah

Chanel

DV