David Jones, artist and poet (1895-1974) begins his PREFACE TO THE ANATHEMATA :
'I have made a heap of all that I could find.' (1) So wrote Nennius, or whoever composed the introductory matter to Historia Brittonum. He speaks of an 'inward wound' which was caused by the fear that certain things dear to him 'should be like smoke dissipated'. Further, he says, 'not trusting my own learning, which is none at all, but partly from writings and monuments of the ancient inhabitants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans and the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Isidore, Hieronymous, Prosper, Eusebius and from the histories of the Scots and Saxons although our enemies . . . I have lispingly put together this . . . about past transactions, that [this material] might not be trodden under foot'. (2)
(1) The actual words are coacervavi omne quod inveni, and occur in Prologue 2 to the Historia.
(2) Quoted from the translation of Prologue 1. See The Works of Gildas and Nennius, J.A.Giles, London 1841.
Following on from the previous post everything nothing, today nothing (not)anything.
Question : How many spin doctors does it take to maintain the silence?
The answer from Bianca Hall's article in today's Sunday Age/SMH :
Scott Morrison has 66 spin doctors
The
Immigration Department employs a 66-strong team of spin doctors,
dwarfing the 39 media and communications staff employed by Prime
Minister Tony Abbott and the ministers on his frontbench.
Last
August, immigration employed 72 media staff, but the 66 officers who now
work in the department's media unit are supported by a further 33
personnel who work on media operations and events in the Australian
Customs and Border Protection Service.
In 2011, the Immigration Department reportedly employed just 13 spin doctors.
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