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Duny,
That’s better, than Dunny I mean. I wouldn’t want to make you feel like a smelly lean-to, surrounded by boxing marsupials and digeridoos. There’s little of the Ned Kelly about you, I can see that. And Duny been all sort of cuddly Celtic/Anglo folklore and all that caper, makes the nomenclature more up to the jobby at hand. N’est ce pas? (TYFTC).
Sallying forth has not been much on the agenda here either, and apparently the next few days will be worse, clammy wise. One doesn’t feel much like hoovering here, and can only admire your enthusiasm for the same, sporadic as it is. I basically wait until ‘Hem Binnen’ gets the urge, then spring into assistance, an enthusiastic Robin to his Batman. The last time I took a damp mop to the dust, and it worked a treat, better than any hoover, at least on the wooden floors surrounding the carpets. Sometimes I secretly creep up on dust-bunnies with me trusty dust-buster, and vanquish the bleeders afore ‘HB’ comes over all Misses Mop, and I have to put on me assistant costume. That Robin mask makes me eyes run, not to mention the tights. Strangely, I don’t think of it getting in the way of writing, all menial jobs being a chance to cogitate, to let things brew (like the mammy’s tea, 24 hours on the hob, strong enough to trot a mouse across). I love me a good cogitation session, so you won’t be hearing me coming over all Clytemnestra or Niobe over that, not at all (at all). Down time and up time are both the same in my book, or me book, even. I used to like how Marcel (D) used to put a sign on his studio door, whilst he was sleeping, saying ‘Artist at Work’. I think of chasing dust-bunnies with me trusty dust-buster, in me tights, as the same thing: ‘Writer at Work’, or if not a writer, then at least someone who is trying cack-handedly to communicate in whichever form and medium is to hand. You be careful between those bookstacks in your bedroom, wouldn’t want you all smothered in an avalanche of your own enthusiasms. But I guess that’s what gets us all in the end anyway.
I enjoyed doing ‘The Origin of the Milky Bar’, it’s very me, very much my background, all that art history, all that academic shite. I enjoy playing with it, I always have. But it’s also a thinking space, for ideas, like those around the Cuckoo, ‘The Wild Geese’, and the Catfish. I like that menagerie, and feel it is an area I want to look at, that recognition of the ‘essential self’, and the ways we choose to hide that, how we disguise it, or rather how I do. I think I might end up writing the first Flickr novel, an amalgamation of a tradition with this clunky form of communication which exists in this Internet backwater. It’s the very ‘Backwater-ness’ of the place that makes it attractive to me. I haven’t courted followers, you can see I only have 308 followers there, and only recently joined a ‘group’ (actually I am in two, but only add to one. I joined the other to find images of Ireland, memory joggers). I almost think of it as a ‘private’ space. I have found it to be a very exhibitionistic intimate space, and I love that contradiction. It’s like leaving a window open, and sometimes I do a ‘Wife of Bath’ and hang my ass out that window (and laugh uproariously). That’s it really, it’s an open window to this room I am sitting in, in my Robin costume, a possible avenue of communication. It’s not that far away from my ‘Anchorite’ obsession, the one I built my 5-hour performance piece around, which in turn had been inspired by Pinter’s ‘A Kind of Alaska’ and Oliver Sak’s ‘Awakenings’. What a tangled web we weave indeed, no wonder my teeth are worn down trying to, at last, unravel it.
Talking of toothzes, good to hear your trials do be coming towards an end. It’s part and parcel of growing older, I guess. I am now on Calcium Blockers, and Statins, both of which are known for dissolving toothzes, so I am expecting them all to go south in due course. If they can get me as far as the crematorium, I will be fine, if not, I’ll be fine too. I believe gumzes are popular in certain circles anyways, circles which, in me former life, I was known to frequent. I understand the profound oneness you feel with those lads from Brandon, spendooly being spendooly, and all that portemonnee stuff in this time of great upheaval and bankrolling stockholders whilst poor creatives starve for the want of a bottle of Bombay, or Moët, I am with you there, me ol’ segousha. Don’t be at the starting of me on the old ‘electric’!
I won’t be at the giving of any advice relative to your dealing with Cuckoos, being one of that variety of foul fowl meself, there would be a touch of an own goal there. I am very pleased to be working that through myself, somewhat with Hem Binnen’s encouragement. At some point in your life, at least in the life of a cuckoo, you/he/she/they have to grab that bull by the horns, so to speak. It becomes a sort of admission and a renunciation. There is some catharsis there, but the royal we will get there.
The disappearance of the universal cuckoo, it does seem to be happening, with my sorely missed bees here. We have had one overworked bee on our balconies all summer. We now know each other well. I salute him with a “Hello, Mr. B”, which he answers with a “Hello, Mr.B”. I have been encouraging him to bring some of his mates around, but he doesn’t appear to have any anymore. What have we done with our cheap flights and pointless travelling? I, meself, am well and truly dun roamin.
An oeuf already, indeed!
Atticus Cuckoo
Dirty Adored at Bookstacks in Perdita dress Infra red sunglasses, skin from Fashionably Dead Hair from Lamb. Isnt she just as pretty as a picture..this picture in fact, I am best photographer EVER!! XD (Not reaaaaallly)
The aim of the week is to confirm once and for all that Baby-Sitters Club is far superior to Sweet Valley High. Especially BSC in graphic novel form.
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British Library book store, Woolwich in south east London, UK. First floor book stacks. It's like a maze, not made from clipped hedges but by shelves of books. Zenitar 16mm f/2.8 fisheye lens.
Bookstack - Fred Watson 1992
Location - Northumberland Road
Materials - Grey Granite on a Black Granite Base
Commissioned by - Northumbria University
A smoothly polished granite sculpture which depicts a stack of fifteen books piled one on top of the other. Another work Inside Outside by Fred Watson can be seen at the Tranwell unit of the Queen Elizabeth hospital in Gateshead. Watson was born in Gateshead and taught at Newcastle Polytechnic. His commissions are sited around the country including Milton Keynes and Harlow.
The stack of books I'm battling through at this present moment in time.
* D.H. Lawrence - Three Novellas (The Ladybird, The Fox, The Captain's Doll)
* Stephen Pile - The Book of Heroic Failures
* Ross & Wilson - Foundations of Anatomy and Physiology
* A.C. Spearing (translator) - The Cloud Of Unknowing & Other Works
* Jostein Gaarder - Sophie's World
* The Rough Guide to Switzerland
So far I'm halfway through The Fox, after having read The Ladybird, this is the first D.H. Lawrence set of stories I've managed to (finally) get round to reading, and he's pretty much my kind of guy. Luckily I have a fair few of his other works kicking about, so they'll be part of the pile someday soon I'm sure.
Heroic Failures is a collection of (mostly) newspaper articles about daft incidents people have managed to get themselves involved in. It's a pretty amusing read, but I can't think of any of the stories offhand as I haven't picked it up in while....
Anatomy - another one I haven't picked up in a while. This was my mum's old book from school, I saw it lying in the bookcase and thought I might as well teach myself how the body works. I've made it past cells etc & the skeleton, muscles and now I'm onto the basic functions of the heart. I've some way to go still (!).
The Cloud is a work by an unknown 14th Century author, and I'll just grab what Amazon has to say about it: "Contains The Cloud of Unknowing, The Mystical Theology of Saint Denis, The Book of Privy Counselling, and An Epistle on Prayer. Against a tradition of devotional writings which focussed on knowing God through Christ's Passion and his humanity, these texts describe a transcendent God who exists beyond human knowledge and human language. These four texts are at the heart of medival mystical theology in their call for contemplation, calm, and above all, love, as the way to understand the Divine. "
Sophie's World - I read this ages ago and thought it was about time for a reread. It's amazing how much of it I'd forgotten, but I'm actually getting a whole new level out of it after years of touching on religious/spiritual/philosopical writings. It's good stuff, I love love love Jostein Gaarder.
Switzerland! I was supposed to go over there to visit my friend last Autumn but never made it, but it's on the cards again for Spring/Summer, so I'm doing some research.
Books I received recently:
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
The People's Act of Love by James Meek
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
Londoners by Craig Taylor (ebook)
We'll Always Have Summer by Jenny Han
The Drowned Cities by Paolo Bacigalupi
Between the Lines by Jodi Picoult & Samantha van Leer
All these are 'to be read' at some point. I churn through the sf stuff and lots of history, but haven't had much time for the denser reads, thus the sad books stuck on the shelves. The ones on top of the bookshelf are more recent additions and have a better chance of being read.
this year's b'day haul. I'm in the middle of "Night Sessions" and have read all the others except the 3rd French.
To summarize:
2 set in near-future Scotland (there are more out there than you'd think)
1st 3 of a French detective series set in late 19th century Paris with a bookshop owner as the "sleuth".
1 graphic novel
1 Irish emigrant/immigrant story
Roof of the Queen Elizabeth II Great Court, British Museum
In 1846 Robert Smirke was replaced as the museum's architect by his brother Sydney Smirke, whose major addition was the Round Reading Room 1854–1857; at 140 feet (43 m) in diameter it was then the second widest dome in the world, the Pantheon in Rome being slightly wider. The Reading Room closed in 1997 when the national library (the British Library) moved to a new building at St Pancras. With the bookstacks in the central courtyard of the museum empty, the demolition for Lord Foster's glass-roofed Great Court could begin
The Queen Elizabeth II Great Court is a covered square at the centre of the British Museum designed by the engineers Buro Happold and the architects Foster and Partner. The Great Court opened in December 2000 and is the largest covered square in Europe. The roof is a glass and steel construction, built by an Austrian steelwork company ith 1,656 uniquely shaped panes of glass.
Many thanks for a fantabulous
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Shot 05.03.2016 at the British Museum REF 115-030
Lancaster Public Library has not returned to business as normal, so things still look a little (okay a lot) different in our buildings. But, now that we all know how to maintain a 6 ft. bubble of space and masks are an integral part of our wardrobe, that's not stopping our patrons from enjoying some time browsing the bookstacks at the Lancaster City Branch.
It's complicated to have a sex life with no arms, stubby legs, bat wings, and three heads. But damn it, he's TRYING.
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Grad cake for the elementary school my younger two children attend. My middle DD graduated from Grade 8 this year - so it had to be special! The picture stinks though - crappy lighting at the hall!
Description: Line drawing of a library space with upper balcony lined with bookshelves overlooking rows of stacks.
Date: circa 1903
Format: black and white photograph
Digital Identifier: AG150_01_0021_a
Digitization: Digitized at the Boston Public Library and federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
Rights: Samuel P. Hayes Research Library, Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, MA
as if reading is a problem for me. I'm trying to read more classics this year. So far so good... it should be easy with Penguin reissuing the classics in all newly designed covers by Coralie Bickford-Smith & Ruben Toledo. Very easy.
I hope this is photoshoppable. I have enough difficulty just holding the camera steady enough that the titles are readable.
An amazing book store in Halifax. We wandered in becasue the site of piles and towers of books stacked in the windows made us curious. There were towers up to the ceiling, windows cut out through books, stairs lined w/ books. There were narrow corridors and twists and turns - some you could not even get through.
The British Museum Reading Room, located at the heart of the Great Court, was designed by Sydney Smirke and opened in 1857 to house the growing library of the British Museum. Constructed of cast iron, concrete, and a papier-mâché dome inspired by the Pantheon, the room’s circular design accommodated thousands of books and readers, with surrounding iron bookstacks and forty kilometers of shelving. It served as the principal reading room of the British Library until the collection relocated to St Pancras in 1997. After restoration, the Reading Room reopened in 2000 for general visitors, later hosting major exhibitions from 2007 to 2013 before closing for archival use until reopening in 2023.
The British Museum, located in Bloomsbury, London, was established in 1753 and opened in 1759 as the world’s first national public museum. Originally housed in Montagu House, it now occupies a grand neoclassical building designed by Sir Robert Smirke, constructed between 1823 and 1852 on the same site. The museum’s encyclopedic collection of over eight million objects spans over two million years of human history, with major highlights including the Rosetta Stone, the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon, and the Sutton Hoo treasures--many of which remain the subject of ongoing repatriation discussions.
The following books will be references for a paper I will be writing at the end of this semester on modern thought concerning the Trinity. I will be reading the book by Rahner, Jenson's book, and Hart's Beauty of the Infinite in full while referencing the remaing books as need be:
- The Trinity, by Karl Rahner
- The Doors of the Sea: Where Was God in the Tsunami?, by David Bentley Hart
- Theology and Sanity, by Frank Sheed
- I Believe in the Holy Spirit, a volume by Yves Congar that contains: The Holy Spirit In The 'Economy': Revelation and Experience of the Spirit, 'He is Lord and Giver of Life', and The River of the Water of Life (Rev 22:1) Flows in the East and in the West
- The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth by David Bentley Hart
- Fundamentals of Catholicism: Volume II, by Kenneth Baker, S. J.
- Systematic Theology: Volume I: The Triune God, by Robert Jenson
- Heart of the World, Center of the Church: Communio Ecclesiology, Liberalism, and Liberation, by David Schindler