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.
Society after Christ for Putting Things on Top of Other Things
The Triumph of Christianity over Paganism,
Tommaso Siciliano 1585
Society after Christ of Young Giants for Putting Persons on Top of Other PersonsFrancisco de Goya, Las gigantillas, 1792
Prado Museum
Royal Society for Putting Things on Top of Other ThingsMonty Python's Flying Circus
Sir William (Graham Chapman): I thank you, gentlemen. The year has been a good one for the Society.
Crowd: Hear! Hear!
Sir William: This year our members have put more things on top of other things than ever before. But, I should warn you, this is no time for complacency. No, there are still many things, and I cannot emphasize this too strongly, not on top of other things. I myself, on my way here this evening, saw a thing that was not on top of another thing in any way.
Crowd: Shame!! Shame!!
Sir William: Shame indeed, but we must not allow ourselves to become too despondent. For, we must never forget that if there was not one thing that was not on top of another thing our society would be nothing more than a meaningless body of men that had gathered together for no good purpose. But we flourish. This year our Australasian members and the various organizations affiliated to our Australasian branches put no fewer than twenty-two things on top of other things. (applause) Well done all of you. But there is one cloud on the horizon. In this last year our Staffordshire branch has not succeeded in putting one thing on top of another.
Crowd: Shame!! Shame!!Society of TARists for Putting Things on Top of Other ThingsFIAPCE -1987-
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Auction Information
Sale LJ8386
LEONARD JOEL
6:00pm - 21 October 2020
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Lot 39
DOROTHY BRAUND (1926-2013)
The Art Exhibition 1960
watercolour and gouache on paper
signed and dated lower left: BRAUND, 60
37 x 52.5cm
Provenance :
Private collection, Melbourne
Estimate $4,000-5,000
Condition :
Work is in very good condition consistent with age.
Very minor cockling of the paper, suggesting it is not laid down.
Overall framed size is 64 x 77cm.
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Hayden Crozier (born 24 December 1993) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League (AFL). He previously played for the Fremantle Football Club from 2012 to 2017. Wikipedia
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My play with brush and ink is not calligraphy nor painting; yet unknowing people mistakenly think:
this is calligraphy, this is painting.
- Sengai Gibon
Sengai Gibon (1750-1837)
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Matsuo Bashō (松尾 芭蕉, 1644 – November 28, 1694), born Matsuo Kinsaku (松尾 金作), then Matsuo Chūemon Munefusa (松尾 忠右衛門 宗房), was the most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan. His disciples built him a rustic hut and planted a Japanese banana tree (芭蕉, bashō) in the yard, giving Bashō a new haigō (pseudonym of a haiku poet) and his first permanent home. - Wikipedia
The Simpsons (Season 13 Episode 20)
Christine planted a white magnolia outside this office window. There we observed the adoration of the godhead by the golden ones...
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...and later, after the supplicants had left, the return to earth launch of the seedhead.
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Yesterday we wrote and posted this re. nature, lineage, one's head, drip-drip-dripping, laughter, regard...
Pollock said 'I am nature'
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Last night, across no known bridge, we watched an online performance of Samuel Beckett's 'Endgame'. This bell-wringing extract :
HAMM (wearily):
Quiet, quiet, you're keeping me awake.
(Pause.)
Talk softer.
(Pause.)
If I could sleep I might make love. I'd go into the woods. My eyes would see... the sky, the earth. I'd run, run, they wouldn't catch me.
(Pause.)
Nature!
(Pause.)
There's something dripping in my head.
(Pause.)
A heart, a heart in my head.
(Pause.)
NAGG:
Do you hear him? A heart in his head!
(He chuckles cautiously.)
NELL:
One mustn't laugh at those things, Nagg. Why must you always laugh at them?
NAGG:
Not so loud!
NELL (without lowering her voice):
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. But—
NAGG (shocked):
Oh!
NELL: Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more.
(Pause.)
Have you anything else to say to me?
NAGG:
No.
NELL:
Are you quite sure?
(Pause.)
Then I'll leave you.
Everything is everything, sang Lauryn Hill.
Sometimes it seems
We'll touch that dream
But things come slow or not at all
And the ones on top, won't make it stop
So convinced that they might fall
Let's love ourselves and we can't fail
To make a better situation
Tomorrow, our seeds will grow
All we need is dedication
Let me tell ya that
Everything is everything
Everything is everything
After winter, must come spring
Everything is everything
Everything is everything
What is meant to be, will be
After winter, must come spring
Change, it comes eventually
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The old pond;
a frog jumps in —
the sound of the water.
Basho (transl. Robert Aitken)
The old pond!
Bashô jumps in,
The sound of the water!
Sengai (transl. Robert Aitken)
this old head : Jackson
Pollock said 'I am nature'
drip drip drip drip drip
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Sengai (1750-1837) figure with shovel and seedling
Piet Mondrian, Composition Trees 2, c.1912-13 
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Observed in the calm,
Performed in the Storm -
Free China/Free Tibet 
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