Monday 18 July 2016
Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative (TS Eliot)
"For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning."
Friday 20 May 2016
Pebbles that make a good road
Friedrich Mohs, a German mineralogist, developed the Mohs scale of hardness in 1812. He selected ten minerals of distinctly different hardness that ranged from a very soft mineral (talc) to a very hard mineral (diamond). With the exception of diamond, the minerals are all relatively common and easy or inexpensive to obtain.
Saturday 14 May 2016
Friday 13 May 2016
When the heart is full, the eye overflows אַז דאָס האַרץ איז פֿול, גייען די אויגן איבער
Thursday 12 May 2016
Wednesday 11 May 2016
Tuesday 10 May 2016
Monday 9 May 2016
Sunday 8 May 2016
Saturday 7 May 2016
Thursday 31 March 2016
The Strength of Steel
What might have been is an abstraction
Remaining a perpetual possibility
Only in a world of speculation. (Eliot)
Saturday 26 March 2016
Blackfriars Vortex
An image (slightly processed) of Blackfriars Station - the most interesting station on Thameslink - with an unbeatable view
Thursday 24 March 2016
Ceci n'est pas Calder
Many artists made contour line drawings on paper, but Alexander Calder was the first to use wire to create three-dimensional line "drawings" of people, animals, and objects. These "linear sculptures" introduced line into sculpture as an element unto itself.
Tuesday 22 March 2016
More about Xerxes the First
Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus who reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces, when he sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace, in the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants; all the powerful of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him. So he shewed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honour of his excellent majesty many days. When those days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace.
Monday 21 March 2016
One, two, three, four
Far a land, a velt, a naye, vu es lebn mentshn fraye, arbetsloz iz keyn shum hand in dem nayem frayn land
(Mordechai Gebirtig)
There will be time, there will be time
And would it have been worth it, after all,
Would it have been worth while,
After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets,
After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor—
And this, and so much more?—
Dayenu.
(T S Eliot and Rav Amran)
Sunday 20 March 2016
Deposuit potentes
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, and was one of the five Fireside Poets.
When he wrote, Longfellow wore a traditional Uraguayan-style shaman cap made of Thai silk. Silk is produced year round in Thailand by two types of silkworms, the cultured Bombycidae and wild Saturniidae. Thai silk textiles often use complicated patterns in various colours and styles. Most regions of Thailand have their own typical silks. A single thread filament is too thin to use on its own so women combine many threads to produce a thicker, usable fiber.
Friday 18 March 2016
Avoid it like the plague
http://maynbilder.blogspot.co.uk/
Thursday 17 March 2016
Wednesday 16 March 2016
If...
If I were to have enough strength, I would run around in the streets, and I would scream out: ...
If I were to have enough strength, I would run around in the streets, and I would scream out.
So?
Monday 14 March 2016
Hug a bag
The Daily Telegraph and Courier was founded by Colonel Arthur B Sleigh in June 1855 in order to air a personal grievance against the future Commander-in-Chief of the British Army.
Sunday 13 March 2016
The Munificent Gesture
'A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
And the dry stone no sound of water. Only
There is shadow under this red rock'
(Bin gar keine Russin, stamm' aus Litauen)
T S Eliot and Miss Jessie Weston
Friday 11 March 2016
Wednesday 9 March 2016
I can scarcely expect bread (Thomas Jefferson)
On the fields, on the horizon
On the wings of the birds
On the windmill of shadows
I write your name (Paul Eluard)
Tuesday 8 March 2016
Long live the fountain...
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. (GBS)
Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it. (GBS)
Monday 7 March 2016
Take a Pebble (E,L&P)
In the course of things, the interaction we have with the massive processing power that is a PC is channelled through a keyboard and a mouse in one direction and through a monitor and speakers in the other. It would be quite feasible to remove the clump of electronics between these realities and replace them with a resident of Chongqing on a camping holiday. The gentleman (or lady) in question would then pretend to be reading a biography of Alan Turing. In this simple thought experiment (actually a simple thought scenario as no variables were harmed in the process) we have thus disposed of the questions of speculative statistical tests, transcendentalism and artificial life in one politically unprovocative posting.
Saturday 5 March 2016
Pebbles on the Beach
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool. (Joseph Roux)
Thursday 3 March 2016
Tuesday 1 March 2016
Monday 29 February 2016
Saturday 27 February 2016
Unfold your own myth
Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever. (Rumi)
Friday 26 February 2016
Thursday 25 February 2016
A Word in Your Ear
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. (Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban PC KC)
Wednesday 24 February 2016
Tuesday 23 February 2016
The Future Tense
The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land (Emma Goldman)
Monday 22 February 2016
The Parting of the Ways
Future editions of the Primer in Hermeneutics have been suspended, and interested parties are being referred to the Maynbilder Gallery.
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