Comments on: Speaking of Lincoln http://donklephant.com/2005/11/15/speaking-of-lincoln/ Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surprisingly Reasonable. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:12:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: download photoshop for free http://donklephant.com/2005/11/15/speaking-of-lincoln/comment-page-1/#comment-6162 download photoshop for free Tue, 07 Feb 2006 18:38:26 +0000 http://donklephant.com/?p=1355#comment-6162 Great post, couldn't agree more with you. Great post, couldn’t agree more with you.

]]> By: Callimachus http://donklephant.com/2005/11/15/speaking-of-lincoln/comment-page-1/#comment-3879 Callimachus Thu, 17 Nov 2005 21:08:03 +0000 http://donklephant.com/?p=1355#comment-3879 Great picture, isn't it? It's my favorite Lincoln illustration, but the story behind it is frustrating to me. I found it a couple of years ago on one of the Iranian sites I browse. It is a modern drawing, illustrating a story someone's father wrote in the 40s or 50s, and published privately as a booklet, telling the Abe Lincoln story as though it were a tale from the Thousand and One Nights. It was furiously clever, full of puns and cultural cross-references. The history was correct and the stylistic touches were dead-on. I am sure I saved the text, too, but now I can't find the damned thing. Perhaps I lost it in a computer crash. A search of my usual Iran stops (I'm pretty sure I found it on http://www.iranian.com/features.html) has failed to discover it, and I can't find it via Google, either. If you're looking for a political point here, you're looking in vain. It was an excuse to display the artwork, and to visually suggest (but not further or make explicit) the link between his times and his war and the modern American war in the Middle East. No more than that. Great picture, isn’t it? It’s my favorite Lincoln illustration, but the story behind it is frustrating to me.

I found it a couple of years ago on one of the Iranian sites I browse. It is a modern drawing, illustrating a story someone’s father wrote in the 40s or 50s, and published privately as a booklet, telling the Abe Lincoln story as though it were a tale from the Thousand and One Nights.

It was furiously clever, full of puns and cultural cross-references. The history was correct and the stylistic touches were dead-on.

I am sure I saved the text, too, but now I can’t find the damned thing. Perhaps I lost it in a computer crash. A search of my usual Iran stops (I’m pretty sure I found it on http://www.iranian.com/features.html) has failed to discover it, and I can’t find it via Google, either.

If you’re looking for a political point here, you’re looking in vain. It was an excuse to display the artwork, and to visually suggest (but not further or make explicit) the link between his times and his war and the modern American war in the Middle East. No more than that.

]]> By: Joshua http://donklephant.com/2005/11/15/speaking-of-lincoln/comment-page-1/#comment-3866 Joshua Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:32:38 +0000 http://donklephant.com/?p=1355#comment-3866 Out of curiosity: What's the story with the picture at the top, with Lincoln dressed in Arab(?) garb and framed by Arabic(?) text? Where did you get it from, and what does it have to do with the rest of the article? Is some Islamist group claiming that Lincoln was a closet Muslim or something? Out of curiosity: What’s the story with the picture at the top, with Lincoln dressed in Arab(?) garb and framed by Arabic(?) text? Where did you get it from, and what does it have to do with the rest of the article? Is some Islamist group claiming that Lincoln was a closet Muslim or something?

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