The Vane Sisters Erythraean Sibyl, which were written on leaves and arranged so that the initial letters of the leaves always formed a word. Sybil Vane is also a character in Oscar Wilde's only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. She is an actress who commits suicide when Dorian rejects her, first causing the portrait to change and Dorian to notice the connection between him and the portrait. The apparent uniqueness of this narrative approach has created fame for this story, and Nabokov himself described this device as something that 'can only be tried once in a thousand years of fiction'. The trick
The Last Picture in the World The Last Picture in the World The Last Picture in the World is a poem written by Canadian poet Al Purdy in 1999. It appears in the book "Beyond Remembering: the collected poems of Al Purdy" along with other poems that he wrote over his lifetime. <poem> A hunched grey shape framed by leaves with lake water behind standing on our little point of land like a small monk in a green monastery meditating except that it's alive brooding immobile permanent for half an hour a blue heron and it occurs to me that if I were to die at