Carlton Hobbs sold Mr. Blass the beds, whose scrolling backrests terminate in carved lion heads.
There is a "Wizard of Oz" figure in Nim Galuu (Steven Tyler), a blubbering, absent-minded yellow caterpillar whose scrolls record the forest's history.
Beelzebub, his second novel, purports to be the memoirs of a fifth-century doctor-monk and passionate lover named Hypa, whose scrolls are unearthed by a 20th-century translator.
So, for example, if you were swept away by Jackson Pollock's flung-and-dripped paintings in the Museum of Modern Art retrospective a few years ago, you are already primed to be similarly thrilled by the wild-style calligraphy of the 11th-century artist Huang Tingjian, whose hand scroll "Biographies of Lian Po and Lin Xiangru" is at the Met.
With a kosher restaurant and a synagogue, whose Torah scrolls were rescued from the blaze, the Paradise resort hotel was particularly popular with Israeli tourists.
With a kosher restaurant and a synagogue, whose torah scrolls were rescued from the blaze today, the Paradise Hotel was particularly popular with Israeli tourists.
The room was sparsely decorated, and the most personal touch was a framed calligraphy scroll whose characters read "Patience, perseverance".
Such a procession is a traditional way of celebrating a new Torah's arrival, but this scroll, whose journey mirrors that of so many Russian Jews to the United States, holds special meaning.
With his left hand he holds a scroll, whose text begins: "I, in the Christ God the pious King Marko, built and inscribed this divine temple ..."....
Looking randomly at Asian antiques, I hit upon these scrolls whose abundance was matched by high quality.
