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by M.F.K. Fisher. |
The Essential Ingredient
by M.F.K. Fisher Signed by M.F.K. Fisher Calligraphy by Pamela Gardella Designed and printed by Judyl Mudfoot 15" x 22" Rives BFK, Gutenberg Laid, and Mohawk Superfine From the broadside:
“The first advice is from the Journal kept by a London apothecary, in Shakespeare's time. The second is from a handbill thrust at me in Aix-en- Provence in about 1970, by a tall man dressed in rough thick clothes. It was night. Down the side street from which he darted now and then with his bunch of flimsy broad- sides I could hear the quavering of a dismal hymn. It sounded strange in the dark, sung perhaps by five or six ancient women, and its Weyleyan measures were doubly foreign in that Catholic town where Campra had been born and where schoolboys whistled phrases from the Jerusalem Psalter as unconsciously as they did from the latest rock-and-roll. But the handbill was no more strange to me than the other old recipe for both spoke of incantation, and mystery, and age- less faith: the essentials of healing” |