... of the seven deadly sins, the eighth and most horrid is emotional blackmail ... whilst for this blogger, the only sacred thing is life itself
Sunday, February 16, 2014
yayoi kusama
http://www.davidzwirner.com/artists/yayoi-kusama/survey-selected-works/image/page/35/
http://www.victoria-miro.com/artists/_31/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yayoi_Kusama
Saturday, February 15, 2014
the opening paragraph of james stephens' crock of gold ...
IN the centre of the pine wood called Coilla Doraca there lived not long ago two Philosophers. They were wiser than anything else in the world except the Salmon who lies in the pool of Glyn Cagny into which the nuts of knowledge fall from the hazel bush on its bank. He, of course, is the most profound of living creatures, but the two Philosophers are next to him in wisdom. Their faces looked as though they were made of parchment, there was ink under their nails, and every difficulty that was submitted to them, even by women, they were able to instantly resolve. The Grey Woman of Dun Gortin and the Thin Woman of Inis Magrath asked them the three questions which nobody had ever been able to answer, and they were able to answer them. That was how they obtained the enmity of these two women which is more valuable than the friendship of angels. The Grey Woman and the Thin Woman were so incensed at being answered that they married the two Philosophers in order to be able to pinch them in bed, but the skins of the Philosophers were so thick that they did not know they were being pinched. They repaid the fury of the women with such tender affection that these vicious creatures almost expired of chagrin, and once, in a very ecstasy of exasperation, after having been kissed by their husbands, they uttered the fourteen hundred maledictions which comprised their wisdom, and these were learned by the Philosophers who thus became even wiser than before.
Friday, February 14, 2014
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Monday, February 10, 2014
i can still spot a mermaid at two hundred paces ... an optician's sign at lyme regis
... although it doesn't say so, most likely painted by linzi ...
http://www.mermaid-at-the-tudor.com/
http://www.linziwest.co.uk/illustrations.html
Friday, February 7, 2014
Thursday, February 6, 2014
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Sunday, February 2, 2014
candlemas ... i still like the story of simeon, even if i amn't religious ... we used to sing a nice version of nunc dimittis in malmesbury abbey back in the 1950s ... by stanford, in C
Saturday, February 1, 2014
Thursday, January 30, 2014
Monday, January 27, 2014
nice observation on the benefit of piano practice during nine-minute interview with rusbridger for a german tv channel
http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/weltspiegel-guardian100.html
we englischers can listen to the whole of the conversation in the second of the two fillums
Saturday, January 25, 2014
saturday ... vexed by my inability to sleep late, i wake at five and read the introduction to japanese drawings by j.r.hillier, studio vista, 1965, chucked out by the library because it was too old ... and scan in some favourites
hillier, himself a collector, writes that artists such as these made a living from paintings and prints .... and surprisingly few of their actual drawings were kept
Friday, January 24, 2014
phew !
parked the truck in reigate high street for a compulsory driver's rest break ... popped in to a stationers to get these stickers for alvi ... was very tired so fumbled for change ... the tired looking woman took my three pounds and turned away without a word
walked one hundred and fifty yards to oxfam bookshop ... searched through kids section ... put hand in pocket to count spending money ... not there !
a sixty-four-and-a-half-year-old running a hundred and fifty yards through heavy traffic and crowds must be an alarming sight
phew ! my last eighty quid still untouched on the counter
Sunday, January 19, 2014
sing ! sing ! sing ! .... FOXP2 ... lea velez has "facebooked" an interesting article from the spanish newspaper el pais that forced me to check out the gene and the protein it expresses in wikipedia ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOXP2
http://sociedad.elpais.com/sociedad/2009/11/11/actualidad/1257894012_850215.html
so it's all about the one-ness of nature, ennit ?
Saturday, January 18, 2014
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