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.


08 July 2017

ORAZIO FANTASIA and the METAPHYSICAFLOGOS/HA HA


IN PRINCIPIO ERAT VERBUM
In the Beginning was the Word...
and the Word was made Flesh

 ORAZIO FANTASIA
I Speak the Fantasy...
into Being


 Orazio Fantasia

"Fantasia making something out of nothing." 
 ABC radio game caller as Fantasia kicks a goal
 27 minutes into the 2nd quarter
 Essendon v Collingwood



 And whatsmore :
"Bombers at one end making something out of nothing. Collingwood at the other making nothing out of something."



For the second time this season,
Bombers defeat Collingwood


FIAPCE 
 detail
 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
 someone looks at something... 
         
 AFLOGOS/HA HA