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.
We showed this image in the previous post
an undated New York photo by Vivian Maier
and captioned that post Skeletons Fighting Over a Pickled Herring - James Ensor, 1891
The two scenes usher-in yet another such
] someone-something-someone (
: this meta-arrangement
from November 1974
40 years ago
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whereof
one un|masked actor
] you here now (
regardeth the scene
Two Actors of Regard
(painted in the manner of Fred Williams)
Regard
staged as if all three do here behold
This Dependent-Arising Projection-Space
detail
A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something ...
LOGOS/HA HA
(Untitled Painting No. 1)
detail
A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something ...
LOGOS/HA HA
