Archive for September, 2009
Sunday, September 27th, 2009
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The soul, he said, is composed
Of the external world.
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There are men of the East, he said,
Who are the East.
There are men of a province
Who are that province.
               - Wallace Stevens, “Anecdote of Men by the Thousandsâ€
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Je suis l’Empire à la fin de la decadence,
Qui regarde passer les grands Barbares blancs
En ...
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
In his much celebrated poem on the death of William Butler Yeats, Auden wrote “Ireland has her madness and her weather still / For poetry makes nothing happenâ€. While the ancient Celtic bards had something of a reputation for controlling the wind and rain with their song, not even the ...
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
Apologies for the long delay since my last post - I have been caught up in the throws of studying for a PhD in art history at Canterbury - the subject is them that were briefly called the Pencil Case artists - Peter Robinson, Seraphine pick, Shane Cotton, Tony de ...
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