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.


05 June 2021

STAR of the See


 First Sight : Susie sees the see
 Originally reproduced 2007.


Susie of Theatre of The Actors of Regard  
“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, remembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.

T.S. Eliot, from “Little Gidding,” Four Quartets
Originally published 1943.

Susie of Theatre of The Actors of Regard  

Theatre of The Actors of Regard  
detail
A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something...
  
LOGOS/HA HA

Post Scriptus :
from The Coodabeens this morning :

- Torch McGee : "Next caller. Go ahead please."
- Hayden from Glenferrie : "Hi Guy."
- Who's this?
- Hayden here.
- And where are you calling from?
- Glenferrie.
- Oh, yes, and...
- Not too far from Glenferrie Oval, Hallowed Park of Victories Past, I'd say...
   (... some while on ...)
At Law, we have a saying : NON VOLTUS VIDERE. MAGNA CLASSUS CRUSTUM FORMANIS :   (translates) Don't look; see!* But, more importantly, shut your pie hole.

*after John Kennedy Snr (Legendary Coach of Hawthorn) :
In the 1975 VFL Grand Final against North Melbourne, his exhortation to the Hawthorn players at half-time was: "At least do something! Do! Don't think, Mick! Don't hope; do! At least you can come off and say, 'I did this, I shepherded, I played on. At least I did something." Despite this, his team still lost convincingly.[4] - Wikipedia

See that oration here :