Friday, October 31, 2014

3BT, no, four ! no, five !!!!!

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In the wee small hours, a small bespectacled drunk with a rasping Balkan accent gets on to the night bus as i’m going in to work, and he re...
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Thursday, October 30, 2014

nature mort, 'nit

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Sunday, October 26, 2014

un stuff, deux stuffs, chez micawber

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Saturday, October 25, 2014

quiet laughter ? ... does hokusai play tricks on yer eyes ? ... or was i wrong to assume that in "reality" the two sawyers would be holding the ends of the same saw ?

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i wuz oh so very wrong ... again ! http://lumberjocks.com/reviews/2094 http://dougukan.jp/contents-en/index.php?id=2...
Thursday, October 16, 2014

ashdown forest

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashdown_Forest most days of the week, often before seven, i cross the ashdown forest o...
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Saturday, October 11, 2014

sometimes i forget which is which ...

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van gogh ...how did he find the time to write so well ?

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"What I think is so good about the moderns is that they don’t moralize like the old ones. It seems coars...

was marcel proust jimi page's wicked uncle ?

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and if you think you might ever bother to read it ... here's a link to the discussion from melvyn bragg's ...
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the red shoes ... a very nice bit of context

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03bfm1f
Sunday, October 5, 2014

ellen's lovely photo of noa, alvi, and skip

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sunday mornings is when i like to waltz around in my head

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxG-kOTMgaA
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Saturday, October 4, 2014

from that series of poems that will lurk through the rest of your life, part 99

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In my craft or sullen art Exercised in the still night When only the moon rages And the lovers lie abed With all their griefs in their ...
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retablo del amor ... the jury at the national art exhibition in madrid in 1910 didn't like this painting ... but when julio romero de torres showed it in barcelona the following year, their city museum was glad to buy it there and then

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borrowed from ... http://www.museunacional.cat/sites/default/files/024157-CJT.JPG

awake before sunrise to start reading every word of my julio romero de torres catalogue, including the bibliography

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Sunday, September 28, 2014

alvi, brimming with confidence and curiosity and adventure

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Cante jondo .... i wanted some background for this Julio Romero de Torres' painting, begun around 1924 ... i found a 1922 essay by Lorca with the same title, beautifully translated by A. S. Klein

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Federico García Lorca                               Deep Song (Importancia histórica y artística del primit...