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.
Faith Kipyegon of Kenya has just won the Women's 1500m gold medal with a new Olympic record of 3:53.11
at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. We witnessed this on a commercial television app, a sub-screen on our computer desktop screen.
Faith Kipyegon then collected a Kenyan flag from her supporters in the stadium. Olympic television media showed us this.
Then, she knelt low upon the track and covered herself with the flag. Watching here as she appeared to disappear there, it seemed like a magic trick. So unexpected. Would a flight of black doves emerge?
The television camera continued to record and the Media Centre editor decided to stay with this scene as a stills photographer rushed in. Five times, we clicked command + shift + 3
Theatre of the Actors of Regard
detail
A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something...
LOGOS/HA HA
