The Library
As a passionate reader, I had such fun seeding The Bohemians with literary references. Here are a few of the authors I plucked from Dorothea and Caroline's shelves.
"My only treasure, apart from my camera, was a battered secondhand copy of Renascence. It had been my gospel, that book. I’d read it so many times the pages had worked loose from the binding. I sank onto the bed and thumbed through the pages, stopping at “First Fig.”
My candle burns at both ends. It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—It gives a lovely light!"
The Bohemians
Edna St. Vincent Millay
"The King of Bohemia stepped out from behind a pair of velvet curtains, his hair molded, his skin gleaning. He’d changed into some sort of long white robe. There were cheers and a burst of applause. In one hand he held a burning candle, which threw shadows on his face; in his other hand he held a large book bound in green cloth, from which he suddenly began to read.
Come, I will make the continent indissoluble;
I will make the most splendid race the sun ever yet shone upon;
I will make divine magnetic lands;
With the love of comrades,
With the life-long love of comrades."
The Bohemians
Walt Whitman
