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.
after LOuis Prima and Keely Smith
with Sam Butera & the Witnesses
Everywhere I gO
I see the figure O
Figure O, figure O, figure O
What wOuld I see
with_ut y_u?
What wOuld I see
with_ut me?
Cos, I ain't gOt nO bOdy
nO bOdy, nO bOdy
nO bOdy, nO bOdy
nO bOdy, nO bOdy
Everywhere I gO
I hear the figure O
Figure O, figure O, figure O
What wOuld I hear
with_ut y_u?
What wOuld I hear
with_ut me?
Cos, I ain't gOt nO bOdy
nO bOdy, nO bOdy
nO bOdy, nO bOdy
nO bOdy, nO bOdy
TAR tour speaker with Hakuin enso scrolls
Everywhere I gO
I am the figure O
Figure O, figure O, figure O
What wOuld I do
with_ut y_u?
And, what wOuld I be
with_ut me?
Cos, we ain't gOt nO bOdy
nO bOdy, nO bOdy
nO bOdy, nO bOdy
nO bOdy, nO bOdy
Benjamin Rabier's duck-rabbit dance solution
Everywhere we gO
We TAR the figure O
Figure O, figure O, figure O
We can't get alOng
withOut yOu
Can't get alOng
withOut yOu
Cos, we ain't got no bOdy
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Theatre of the Actors of Regard
detail
A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something...
LOGOS/HA HA
