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.


19 August 2021

Four Standard Stoppages : Duchamp · Sales · Howard


Three Standard Stoppages
or
Tinned Chance: Trois stoppages etalon

Marcel Duchamp

Original Version: 1913-14, Paris
The Museum of Modern Art
Katherine S. Dreier Bequest, 1953
complex construction of multiple parts inside wood box
129.2 x 28 x 23 cm


7.30 (ABCTV yesterday, 2021.08.18) 

John Howard, former PM of Australia : 
"... so on that criterion, the mission, whatever may be said of it, has not been a failure."    

Leigh Sales : 
"Well, if you look, though, broadly at what the War on Terror achieved : Iraq, disaster; Afghanistan, disaster; terrorism morphed and changed; and we have seen more terrorist attacks around the world, regardless of where they originated from; we’ve seen home grown terror motivated by the ideologies of ISIS and so on. The War on Terror was supposed to make the world a safer place and again, by that yardstick, the War on Terror was a failure, wasn't it?"   

John Howard : 
"Well, you’re changing the yardstick."

Theatre of the Actors of Regard  
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 someone looks at something...
  
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