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Vanessa Carlton => General Vanessa Carlton Discussion => Topic started by: Kellang.ly on January 25, 2008, 11:33:29 pm
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Maybe this is not worth enough to be talk about or post, but it is interesting though. It seems that V's text on her H&T booklet and songs like "More than This" contains texts from "A Child's Garden of Verses" by Robert Louis Stevenson. You can find the full version on Google Books. The book was published in 1921. On page 42 of Google version, the poem "Happy Thought" exactly stated "the world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should be happy as kings". On page 18, the poem "Foreign Lands" contains that text of "...blue-looking glass.." In MTV Cribs, Vanessa was talking about a book given to her from Stevie Nick that was special to her. Was that the poem book she was holding? Anyways, the book brings back a lot of childhood memories that is innocent in a lot of ways and shares similar characteristics to the theme of H&T. :arrow: Here is the site: http://books.google.com/books?id=35cNAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover
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yeah, i think she said something about using a few books for the quotes in the album booklet.
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Ya, once I thougth the text "the world is full..." was hers. I've just written it down in my thesis on the quote page and I put V's name just so anybody would know that it was hers...
If you read on the last page of her booklet, there it's mentioned that "The Moon" & "Happy Thoughts" written by Robert Lewis Sevenson. I didn't know what this mean until you brought this up...
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yes ive found that book online before cuz i was curious. +:)