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.
Unsheathe your dagger definitions. Horseness is the whatness of allhorse.
- James Joyce, Ulysses (Scylla and Charybdis)
One tries to move on, but wait there's more. This from today's inbox via the auction house Leonard Joel :
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Unsheathe your dagger definitions. Horseness is the whatness of allhorse.
- James Joyce, Ulysses (Scylla and Charybdis)
And as the ends and ultimates of all things accord in some mean and measure with their inceptions and originals, that same multiplicit concordance which leads forth growth from birth accomplishing by a retrogressive metamorphosis that minishing and ablation towards the final which is agreeable unto nature so is it with our subsolar being. The aged sisters draw us into life: we wail, batten, sport, clip, clasp, sunder, dwindle, die: over us dead they bend. First saved from water of old Nile, among bulrushes, a bed of fasciated wattles: at last the cavity of a mountain, an occulted sepulchre amid the conclamation of the hillcat and the ossifrage. And as no man knows the ubicity of his tumulus nor to what processes we shall thereby be ushered nor whether to Tophet or to Edenville in the like way is all hidden when we would backward see from what region of remoteness the whatness of our whoness hath fetched his whenceness.
James Joyce, Ulysses (Oxen of the Sun)
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On this day, one hundred years ago :Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920 and then published in its entirety in Paris by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, Joyce's 40th birthday. It is considered one of the most important works of modernist literature and has been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire movement." According to Declan Kiberd, "Before Joyce, no writer of fiction had so foregrounded the process of thinking".
- Wikipedia
Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness. The soul is in a manner all that is: the soul is the form of forms. Tranquillity sudden, vast, candescent: form of forms.
- James Joyce's ‘Ulysses’
Lot 66: James Joyce Ulysses 1/750 1st edition
Title: Ulysses
Author: Joyce, James
Place: Paris
Publisher: Shakespeare and Company
Date: 1922
Description:
[8], 732, [1] pp. 24x18 cm. (9½x7¼"), original blue paper wrappers lettered in white, with integral turnovers present; custom, and fairly old, half morocco slipcase & chemise. No. 255 of 750 copies printed on handmade paper, from a total run of 1000 copies. First Edition, First Printing.
A nice, untrimmed copy in the original wrappers of arguably the greatest work of literature of the twentieth century. This is one of the earliest copies from the press - the 750 copies printed on handmade paper were the first copies printed, and the numbering began with 251 - this copy at 255 would have been the fifth to have been completed. Furthermore, according to publisher Sylvia Beach's record of sales, #255 is listed as one of the very first copies to have been sold, being bought on February 9th, 1922. "Ulysses" can be viewed as the pinnacle of the Modernist movement, and its impact on all subsequent western literature is unmistakable. Such writers as Virginia Woolf, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Samuel Beckett, Malcolm Lowry, and Anthony Burgess have all paid tribute to Joyce's influence. According to James Spoerri, "This fortunate combination of printer [Maurice Darantiére and publisher [Sylvia Beach] resulted in the appearance of 'Ulysses' as a book whose physical aspect is particularly suited to its content. It is a fair and inviting volume, the blue and white of its covers subtly evocative of the Greece whose epic it so closely parallels." Slocum & Cahoon A17. Bookplate of Ad &Ben Schulberg affixed to inside of front wrapper.
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Condition:
Later slipcase worn, repairs to spine and joints; original wrappers with some rubbing to edges, splitting at joints, spine with some wear and portion repaired; a rare copy untrimmed and in the original wrappers.
Peter Tyndall : Dagger Definitions, Pamela Hansford
Published by Greenhouse (Melbourne), first edition 1987
Unsheathe your dagger definitions. Horseness is the whatness of allhorse. Streams of tendency and eons they worship. God: noise in the street: very peripatetic. Space: what you damn well have to see. Through spaces smaller than red globules of man's blood they creepycrawl after Blake's buttocks into eternity of which this vegetable world is but a shadow. Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
- James Joyce's ‘Ulysses’
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Unsheathe your dagger definitions. Horseness is the whatness of allhorse. (James Joyce, Ulysses)
A swarthy boy opened a book and propped it nimbly under the breastwork of his satchel. He recited jerks of verse with odd glances at the text:
Weep no more, woful shepherd, weep no more
For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead,
Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor...
It must be a movement then, an actuality of the possible as possible. Aristotle's phrase* formed itself within the gabbled verses and floated out into the studious silence of the library of Saint Genevieve where he had read, sheltered from the sin of Paris, night by night. By his elbow a delicate Siamese conned a handbook of strategy. Fed and feeding brains about me: under glowlamps, impaled, with faintly beating feelers: and in my mind's darkness a sloth of the underworld, reluctant, shy of brightness, shifting her dragon scaly folds. Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness. The soul is in a manner all that is: the soul is the form of forms. Tranquillity sudden, vast, candescent: form of forms.
James Joyce, Ulysses (Nestor p.26)
* "It follows that the soul is analogous to the hand; for as the hand is a tool of tools, so the mind is the form of forms and sense the form of sensible things." [Aristotle : On the Soul, Book III, Part 8]
whatness of allhorse = horseness
an actuality of the possible as possible = a movement
thought of thought = thought
form of forms = soul
analog of the hand = soul
tool of tools = hand
form of forms = mind
form of sensible things = sense
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In the inbox from Lyon Housemuseum Galleries :
THE WORLD OF THE CURATOR
Sunday 27 February 2022, 3:00pm
What is the role of the curator in contemporary art practice? What skills do curators need to deliver effective and engaging exhibitions in these changing times?
Join our panel of leading curators Pip Wallis, Curator, Contemporary Art at National Gallery of Victoria and Anthony Fitzpatrick, Curator at TarraWarra Museum of Art, as they discuss the role of the curator and curatorship in the contemporary museum.
$15.00 PER PERSON
Image courtesy of PLATFORM, platformart.com
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The Special Ks (Nick Kyrgios and Thanasi Kokkonakis ) celebrate today on Rod Laver Court, Melbourne.
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"Horseness is the whatness of allhorse."- James Joyce. 'Ulysses'
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The Fourteen Precepts of Engaged Buddhism (click here)
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Penguin | Random House
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HAND SPACE/AS SEEN IN VOGUE
Bonnie and Kind
Luxurious leather kits for baby & toddler & travel essentials.
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