Thursday, December 6, 2018

i like using google's streetview to see things in context ... for example, the astrological clock in prague ...





































and the one in venice ...








































and the one in padua ...


































there's an excellent modern one in oslo ...






































Tuesday, December 4, 2018

if i were teaching a class about religion then i'd be tempted to use philip larkin's poem, WATER ...
























WATER by Philip Larkin
  

If I were called in 
To construct a religion 
I should make use of water.

Going to church
Would entail a fording
To dry, different clothes;

My liturgy would employ
Images of sousing,
A furious devout drench,


And I should raise in the east
A glass of water
Where any-angled light
Would congregate endlessly.