{"id":3716,"date":"2012-08-17T10:53:24","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T16:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=1375"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:22:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:22:01","slug":"more-book-sculptures-in-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2012\/08\/17\/more-book-sculptures-in-edinburgh\/","title":{"rendered":"More book sculptures in Edinburgh!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edbookfest.co.uk\/news\/the-mystery-paper-sculptor-strikes-again\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1376\" title=\"bookflower\" src=\"http:\/\/jessyrandall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/bookflower.jpg?w=200\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The mysterious book sculptor has struck again! So far, only a few of the fifty flowers she made have been found in Charlotte Square in Edinburgh. Each has a tag bearing a fragment of the Oscar Wilde quote from <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=xZMq79CoYdoC&amp;lpg=PA86&amp;ots=LsEOGruf55&amp;dq=oscar%20wilde%20freedom%20books%20flowers%20moon&amp;pg=PA86#v=onepage&amp;q=oscar%20wilde%20freedom%20books%20flowers%20moon&amp;f=false\"><em>De Profundis:<\/em><\/a> &#8220;&#8230;freedom, books, flowers and the moon.&#8221; (The full quote is &#8220;With freedom, books, flowers and the moon, who could not be happy?&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>This shenanigan <a href=\"http:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/09\/mysterious-paper-sculpture-gifts-in-scottish-libraries\/\">started in 2011<\/a> and I hope it continues for years to come. There&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Gifted-Mysterious-Sculptures-Words-Ideas\/dp\/1846972760\">a book <\/a>about it now, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofliterature.com\/news.aspx?sec=5&amp;pid=22&amp;item=1514\">an exhibition<\/a> touring Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/sarahmilteerpaintings.blogspot.com\/\">Sarah Milteer<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mysterious book sculptor has struck again! So far, only a few of the fifty flowers she made have been found in Charlotte Square in Edinburgh. Each has a tag bearing a fragment of the Oscar Wilde quote from De Profundis: &#8220;&#8230;freedom, books, flowers and the moon.&#8221; (The full quote is &#8220;With freedom, books, flowers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-XW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4166,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716\/revisions\/4166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}