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.


07 September 2020

COVID-19 & The Masks of God


Edwin Hatch unmasked
1878 author of 
Breathe on me, Breath of God


  4. Breathe on me, Breath of God,
    Fill me with life anew,
    That I may love what Thou dost love,
    And do what Thou wouldst do.
  5. Breathe on me, Breath of God,
    Until my heart is pure,
    Until with Thee I will one will,
    To do and to endure.
  6. Breathe on me, Breath of God,
    Till I am wholly Thine,
    Until this earthly part of me
    Glows with Thy fire divine.
  7. Breathe on me, Breath of God,
    So shall I never die,
    But live with Thee the perfect life
    Of Thine eternity.

H M Bateman unmasked
1916 author of 
The Boy who Breathed on the Glass at the British Museum : An Ante-Bellum Tragedy.

Henry Mayo Bateman b.1887, Sutton Forest, NSW

It all began so innocently for the boy about to breathe on the glass at the British Museum...

     

Theatre of the Actor of Regard  
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someone looks at something...
  
LOGOS/HA HA



"Breathe on me ...


Theatre of the Authorities of Regard  
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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
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LOGOS/HA HA

So begins a hard life under the Law ...
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Joseph Campbell unmasked
1959-1968 author of 
The Masks of God

ex libris FIAPCE  

COVID-19 lockdown protester immasked x VicPol
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Police place a face mask on an arrested protester at the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne during an anti-lockdown rally protesting the state's strict lockdown laws as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus.

Yours faithfully,

Editor
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