DEGREES OF POVERTY ... i've often been poor ... mostly by my own inertia and my profound disinterest in work ... but i had never really thought about how poverty can be measured and "stratified" ...

Do you have a pot to piss in ? ... are you as poor as a church mouse ?

Can you tell the difference between desperation and destitution ?

Well, poverty is a way of life for more people than you might have realized.

About one in five British people live in poverty.

Thirty per-cent of British children live in poverty.

Here are three ways of looking at the bigger picture.

https://www.habitatforhumanity.org.uk/blog/2018/09/relative-absolute-poverty/

and 

https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN07096/SN07096.pdf

and 

https://www.jrf.org.uk/report/minimum-income-standard-uk-2022

and this astonishing etymology of poverty ...

https://ht.ac.uk/category/?type=search&qsearch=poverty&word=poverty&label=&category=&oef=&oel=&startf=&startl=&endf=&endl=&currentf=&currentl=&year=&twoEdNew=&twoEdUpdated=&page=1#id=138438

comedy and tragedy ... dorothy jordan

 

hoppner's painting of dorothy jordan as the muse of comedy 

a short account of her life ...

https://www.joankoster.com/dorothea-jordan-and-scandal/

i have only belatedly realized that claire tomalin had written a whole book 

it can be read free-of-charge on-line at archive dot org ...

https://archive.org/details/mrsjordansprofes0000toma/mode/1up?view=theater

MELANCHOLIA

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melancholia

i tried reading burton's anatomy but it sapped my stamina despite all of his witty erudition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=rRF5D68e44Q

artemisia gentileschi, mary magdalene as melancholy

https://www.rct.uk/collection/search#/15/collection/830468/melancholy-ubi-inletabilitas-ibi-virtus

SHIP OF FOOLS

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_fools

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Fools_(satire)

The Pilgrim's Progress ... at the age of ten i could see that it was allegorical because of the characters' names, even if i'd never heard the word allegorical ... but i desperately wanted it to be a straightforward adventure with a violent climax ... and am still disappointed

 

etc, etc ... to be continued

noah's ark ... we've had a lot of rain lately ...