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.
.Every time I see an old paint horse, I think of you,Old paint horse of mine that used to be,Old pal o' mine that was, the best horse of all, because --That's why, old horse, at last I set you free!I've bought 'em by the thousand, I've owned 'em everywhere --There's one stands out among 'em all alone;Paint-marked everywhere, tail a little short o' hair,Old horse, you never failed to bring me home!'Member when they stole you for Pass City,En locked you up inside the Juarez jail?Said that you have eaten up an entire crop of wheat,En I had to rustle round en get your bail?En I got you cross the river en matched you en a race,End we bet the last red dollar we could scrape?--En how you bit old Rocking Chair, the horse you run against,En made him turn his head en lose the race?We was both young en foolish in them green days long ago,I don't believe in telling stories out of school! --'Member when we roped the pianner en jerked her out the door?Hush up! Old Paint! you're talkin' like a fool!Well, old horse, you're buried, en your troubles, they are done,But I often sit en think of what we did,En recall the many scrapes we had, en used to think it fun,Es we rode along the Rio Grande . . . Good-bye, old Kid!
by Jack Thorp
from Songs of the Cowboys, 1921
.Berrys' Antiques was a wonder heap! Your correspondent replays many memories of child-time regained amidst the shared toy box of Fran Berry - ever holding court over a pot of tea - and her son Richard.
(photo from THE AGE)Along with Fran and Richard, the business has gone to legend.
Last year Young's Auctions dispatched part one of the Berry Family Collection. Part two, the Richard Berry Collection, will be auctioned by Young's at the end of this month.
(click here for the online catalog)The Berrys' Antique Shop in Melbourne's Flinders Lane was an Australian landmark from the 1960s to 1993 when it sadly closed.
It was the way all antique shops should be - "an Aladdin's cave of unusual collectable and interesting items covering such a great range that it seemed to be a mixture of department store and museum," says David Young. He should know.
As the director of Young's Auctions in East Hawthorn, it was his challenging task to sort through the Berry family's private collection of antiquities and sell them at auction. (full article here)
James Cockington
The Berry family jewels
THE AGE
18 March 2009
Among the varied lots is a scene of looking and measuring that tickles the fancy of
bLOGOS/HA HA : an 18th Century fan, 'Chinese estimate of an Englishman, lighter than a feather'.
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.Gorgeous geek (Lawrence Leung) as the Actor of Looking, on the front stage of yesterday's green guide.
Theatre of the Actors of Looking is also proud to present
Master Junior's (Chartres Cathedral labyrinth inspired)
"meta-Act after Gorgeous geek".
I am proposing to artists that they pass by art itself and work individually on the return to real life, the life in which a man no longer thinks he is the center of the universe, but in which the universe is the center of each man.
Yves Klein
.The web we weaveGuy Rundle in today's
Sunday Age.
Today, we're in a similar position as the feudal world was in the decades leading up to the great revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries. The web ostensibly makes the final separation between writing and material being. Text and images can be circulated at virtually zero cost instantaneously and universally. Old forms — the book, the film, the song — are being pulled apart by new forms using that total interconnectivity. Intellectual property, that ludicrous fiction, is effectively dead, as are many of the corporations that based their value on it...
(click here for full article)
The Word,
The Word Made Flesh
& all associated signs and brands
Registered .R.
Trademarked .TM
Copyrighted .©
-1995-
.A big shout out to
malE for this fetching extension (2nd image)
to p.112 Paris Vogue, December 2008–Jan 2009 (below).
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.China denounces Dalai Lama and says Tibet is earthly paradiseBeijing
March 12, 2009
CHINA'S state media has declared Tibet an earthly paradise, rejecting the Dalai Lama's claims that it had become a "hell on earth", and heaped scorn on the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader.
The vitriol in the official media came a day after the tense anniversary of a failed 1959 uprising passed in Tibet amid a Chinese security lockdown...
(click to read this article)
Fifty years on, Tibet's cause is weaker but not crushedEditorial, THE AGE
March 12, 2009
China is guilty of cultural genocide in the Buddhist nation.
FOR those who thought his public career was ending with a whimper, not a bang, the Dalai Lama has confounded expectations. This week the exiled Tibetan leader marked the 50th anniversary of his flight from his native land by declaring that during the past five decades Tibetans had experienced "hell on earth". The consequence of continual violent repression by the country's Chinese rulers, the Dalai Lama said, was that Tibet's religion, culture, language and national identity were nearing extinction. He did not call for independence, but renewed his long-standing demand that China grant Tibet "meaningful autonomy". Working for the cause of Tibet was the responsibility of every Tibetan, he said, and "whether we look at it from the global perspective or in the context of events in China, there are reasons for us to hope for a quick resolution of the issue".
That view of what might happen was emphatically rejected in Beijing, where a Foreign Ministry spokesman accused the Dalai Lama of lying, as Chinese Government spokesmen have so often done in the past. Then the spokesman launched into another familiar line: since its military occupation of Tibet in 1950, China had undertaken a comprehensive program of modernisation, culminating in the "widest and most profound" democratic reforms in Tibetan history...
"Whether we look at it from the global perspective or in the context of events in China, there are reasons for us to hope for a quick resolution of the issue."..Dalai Lama
(click here to read full statement by Dalai Lama)
