After reading Wednesday’s interview with Theresa Starkey, Theresa’s husband, writer extraordinaire Jack Pendarvis, informed me that he had given Theresa a very special gift upon completion of her Ph.D.
As he tells it,
Here is a “detail” from the only piece of art I have ever “commissioned.” It is by Jon Langford of Mekons fame. As you can see, it shows Lillian Gish as Hester Prynne. It celebrates Theresa getting her Ph.D. I wish I could claim I picked the passage from THE SCARLET LETTER quoted on it, but the very literary Mr. Langford did that on his own, without prompting of any kind. It’s Dimmesdale to Hester in the climactic scene: “Come hither now, and twine thy strength about me! … Come, Hester, come! Support me up yonder scaffold!”
Coolest present ever? You be the judge.
The Abbott Gran Medicine Show 