"ALL I WANT IS A WARM BED AND A KIND WORD, AND UNLIMITED POWER" - Ashleigh Brilliant (USA 1985)
This is the second of my three chuck-out freebies from my favourite OpShop, a very good browse-then-ditch job.
First up, I never heard of this guy, but he was apparently big in the US world of syndicated newspapers and greeting cards and tee-shirts in the 80s and 90s. Second up, his name isn't a cutesy invention, it really is Brilliant, and he encloses a copy of his birth certificate (born in London 1933, lived mostly in the US) to quash the doubters!
His large body of output is just about all through epigrams, confined to 17 words or less, accompanied by an appropriate illustration, apparently mostly from old out-of-copyright works, and called "Pot-Shots". And okay, it's not all brilliant, but there's plenty that's good to great, here loosely arranged by subject, and a very satisfying browse. (And when I first saw the title, about seven current world leaders' faces sprang immediately to mind!)
He precedes each section with a short observation, about Life, which are all worth reading, albeit at times a touch cynical, not all pretend I suspect, and if you're curious about his life and work, have a dig into Wiki...
A book well worth the browse, but if you Google his name and "Pot-Shots" and hit "Images", you'll find a whole bunch, such as...
