the portal

 ( Image from http://www.mercantilelibrary.org/groups/images/Marcel-Proust-1.jpg   9/3/08 )

Olivier Normandin, owner of Chez Olivier in Melbourne, recently organised a dinner with Marcel Proust as the prearranged topic of discussion. He was bemused when people enquiring about the event asked if Proust would be there in person!

 Did you know that Philip Pulman will be writing for a new weekly comic published by Random House in Britain, starting from May 2008? I wonder who will be drawing his characters.

( Image from http://www.bridgetothestars.net/images/ppcharac.gif  9/3/08 )

Do we have any budding cartoonists out there who’d like to publish some of their work on The Portal? Just ask a librarian!

 (These interesting tidbits were found in The Weekend Australian Review, 8-9 March, p. 9).

Mrs Sweeney