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Interesting and shows why Freud and Schnitzler had besides a nodding acquaintance, a mutual interest in the inner world.
Wie viel Exemplare konnten von der Novelle bis zu Schnitzlers Tod verkauft werden? Wann wurde das Buch verfilmt? Welches unmoralische Angebot wird der Hauptperson unterbreitet? Als welche Gegentendenz wird die Wiener Moderne angesehen?
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Lovely sketches- some 50 years since I visited but not all has changed!!
Here are some sketches of Orkney, made during a visit earlier this month.
This is Stromness:
The seascapes and light were magnificent.
St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall is awe-inspiring.
These drawings are in two sketchbooks:
Lovely sketches – makes me want to visit quiet London from inundated, crowded West Cornwall!
Jolene bakery is on the corner of Redchurch Street and Club Row.
This is a lively corner in a street on various edges: on the edge of the City, at the boundary between a new London and an old one, at the intersection of 21st century entrepreneurial culture and 19th century housing projects.
Redchurch Street is just North and West of Brick Lane. There are restaurants, independent clothes designers, hairdressers, and various 21st century businesses I couldn’t identify but categorised in my mind as broadly “creative”. It’s a good place to walk around, and Jolene is a great place to pause for coffee. They close at 3pm, though, so best be quick.
I arrived there at about 1pm today, and sat outside on one of their benches. Here’s the view looking up Club…
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Tomorrow on Radio 3 at 22.00 “R.S.Thomas:Always Seeking Greater Silence”
The Bright Field
I have seen the sun break through
to illuminate a small field
for a while, and gone my way
and forgotten it. But that was the
pearl of great price, the one field that had
the treasure in it. I realise now
that I must give all that I have
to possess it. Life is not hurrying
on to a receding future, nor hankering after
an imagined past. It is the turning
aside like Moses to the miracle
of the lit bush, to a brightness
that seemed as transitory as your youth
once, but is the eternity that awaits you.
R. S. Thomas (1913 – 2000)
R. S. Thomas was aWelsh poet and Anglican priest; so, it is not surprising that there are religious references. Moses and the ‘burning bush’ was the spectacular interaction where God defined the plan for Moses to lead the Israelites out of…
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New York fascinates
In the early morning hours when between plaster and the crystal of Heaven the elegant skyscrapers stand like gems on the salmon ground
Beautiful is New York in the morning, most beautiful early Sunday when sirens and wheels sleep, little voices from park trees coo to the Hudson adapting to the ocean
A person comes upon you and you see is really a PERSON and you see it is really NEW YORK; a fable beautifully devised subtle and strong
The eight million sleeping Sunday dreamers have not yet shaken off the nightmare of the week. Too late they seek when already shadows embrace the streets, seek the PEOPLE too late, NEW YORK the azure-dreamed fable New York.
New York faszinert
New York fasziniert in den fruehen Morgenstunden wenn zwischen Pflaster und Himmelskristall die eleganten Wolkenkratzer gemmengleich stehn auf lachsrotem Grund
Schoen ist New York am Morgen am schoensten Sonntag frueh wenn Sirenen und Raeder schlafen kleine Stimmen von Parkbaeumen kollern der Hudson sich anpasst dem Ozean
ein Mensch dir begegnet und du siehst es ist wirklich ein MENSCH und du siehst es ist wirklich NEW YORK ein Maerchen schoen ersonnen subtil und stark
Die acht Millionen schlafenden Sonntagstraeumer haben noch nicht abgeschuettelt den Alpdruck der Woche
Zu spaet suchen sie wenn schon
Schatten die Gassen umarmen den MENSCHEN suchen
zu spaet NEW YORK
das blaugetraeumte Maerchen New York
I really like the sense of place in this poem of a stranger awaking to a new environment and its fairy tale quality. The word “kollern” apparently can mean goobled up – presumably by the flowing Hudson entering the sea. Derek Mahon and of course, W.H.Auden give voice to similar sensations too.
Lovely structure in a very lovely setting
A lovely and evocative image!
Margarett Williams Sargent (August 31, 1892-1978) was a painter in the Ashcan School; she exhibited as Margarett Sargent and as Margarett W. McKean.
Biography on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margarett_Sargent
Woman in Striped Chair by Margarett Sargent
1932 / Oil on canvas / 28-3/8″x22-2/8″ / Collisart LLC, NY, NY
Margarett Sargent on Artnet: http://www.artnet.com/artists/margarett-w-sargent/
Further reading:
https://www.margarettsargent.com/biography
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16417513/chicago-tribune/
http://www.artoftheprint.com/artistpages/sargent_margaret_seated_woman.htm
Fascinating – apparently in Burgenland today, the voting age is just 16.
Today 8,000 Austrian troops entered the disputed province of Burgenland, which we reported on two days ago. Armed Hungarians had seized the town of Oedenburg in contravention of the Versailles treaty. The Austrian aim was to drive out the unauthorized intruders, but they have so far failed to dislodge them.
Thousands of coal miners are on strike in West Virginia, and the mine-owners have hired strikebreakers. Both sides have armed themselves, and blood-shed seems imminent. In response, President Harding has delivered an ultimatum to the miners: if they do not disperse by noon on Thursday, the 1st of September, he shall declare martial law in the five affected counties, and Army troops will be deployed.
NO LACK OF STRENGTH
Bill (to sick friend, who, with lots of others, is suffering from nausea on ship board): “What’s the matter? Weak stomach?”
Sick Friend (Indignantly): “What makes you think I’ve got a…
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I had a similar conversation with a 25 year old about Harold Wilson. She is reasonably well educated and quite interested in politics. What I find particularly concerning is the way films are unreliable as sources- yet much of my own recent knowledge of American History comes from films like “The Post” and “Chicago Seven”!
At some point this weekend, I had a discussion which left me reeling for a multitude of reasons.
There’s this game I play. The alliance I’m in has a WhatsApp chat group. Mostly we discuss our new creatures and raids. Sometimes we get more personal. One of our newer members is a youngling. He recently acquired a macaw. From the things he was saying, it very quickly became evident that he’s got this new family member without knowing a single thing about the creature he’s bringing in.
There were a few things which had my sirens blaring, like the fact this little featherling will be indefinitely caged because of the household’s dog and cats. In my personal opinion, if you have a dog and cats you think will go for the bird, why get the bird unless you can guarantee you can shut everything out for enough time each day…
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