Mukulika Banerjee and Daniel Miller serenade the garment [the sari] in their remarkable coffee-table book The Sari. … Photographs build the warp and weft of coffee-table books. Words seldom rule and even if written by well-known writers, they have to take second place to the camera's five-colour dominance.

My ragged rimes are all too rude and bace, / Her heauenly lineaments for to enchace.

How did your meeting with Smith go?

Contemplant Spirits! ye that hover o'er With untired gaze the immeasurable fount Ebullient with creative Deity!