L’ange du silence sur la tombe du comte Robert de Montesquiou à Versailles (Wikipédia)
L’Ange du Silence
Category Archives: Art
Un Poète Pensif
A.E. Housman drawn in charcoal by Francis Dodd, 1926 (National Portrait Gallery)
On entre, on crie,
Et c’est la vie.
On baîlle, on sort,
Et c’est la mort. — Ausone de Chancel (1808-78)
Bagina Dentata
Norman Weaver’s cover for The Freedom Trap (1971) by Desmond Bagley (image from Morgan’s Rare Books)
Kit-Bits
Use a straight-edged object against the screen to confirm that these are straight lines
Perfect circles, despite what your eyes say
Concentric circles, not a spiral
The optical illusions above are by the Japanese psychologist Akiyoshi Kitaoka via SYFY.
Tri + Eye = Troculus
Troculus, a fractal Lovecraftian entity created by dividing-and-discarding parts of a triangle
Troculus converted into a circle
Troculus switching between forms (animated gif)
Elsewhere Other-Accessible…
• Circus Trix — how to create Troculus & Co.
Performativizing Papyrocentricity #74
Papyrocentric Performativity Presents…
• A Big Book about Books – The Penguin Classics Book, Henry Eliot (Penguin 2018)
• Wrecks & Drugs & Rock & Roll – Bodies: Life and Death in Music, Ian Winwood (Faber 2022)
• In the Bland of the Blind – An Unexplained Death: The True Story of a Body at the Belvedere, Mikita Brottman (Canongate 2018)
• Hu Thru Mu – The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth, Michael Spitzer (Bloomsbury 2021)
• A Bit of EngLit – The Power of Delight: A Lifetime in Literature: Essays 1962-2002, John Bayley (Duckworth 2005)
• Chrome Tome – The Secret Lives of Colour, Kassia St Clair (John Murray 2018)
• Cannonball Corpse – AC/DC: The Story of the Original Monsters of Rock, Jerry Ewing (Carlton Books 2015)
• Chimpathy for the Devil? — Oasis: Supersonic: The Complete, Authorised and Uncut Interviews, curated by Simon Halfon (Nemperor 2021)
• D for Deviant, K for Korpse… — Doktor Deviant’s Diary of Depravity: Kandid Konfessions of a Kompulsive Korpse-Kopulator, ed. Dr David Kerekes and Samuel P. Salatta (Visceral Visions 2022)
Or Read a Review at Random: RaRaR
Ivanix
Иван Шишкин, Зима (1890) / Ivan Shishkin, Winter (1890)
(click for larger)
• nix, nivis f., snow — Latin vocab
Tête avec Texte
Above you can see the Peacock on a Platter, or Robert de Montesquiou posing as the severed head of John the Baptist and flanked by relevant lines of his own poetry. But there’s a better version of the poetry, as you can see by comparing the photo with this:
J’aime le jade,
Couleur des yeux
D’HérodiadeEt l’améthyste,
Couleur du sang
De Jean-Baptiste. — from “Robert de Montesquiou: The Magnificent Dandy” (1962) by Cornelia Otis Skinner
I love jade,
Color of the eyes
Of HerodiasAnd amethyst,
Color of the blood
Of John the Baptist.
Elsewhere Other-Accessible…
• Portrait of a Peacock — Cornelia Otis Skinner’s excellent essay on Montesquiou
• Le Paon dans les Pyrénées — review of Julian Barnes’ not-so-good book partly about Montesquiou
Fernandhörer
Fernand Khnopff, En écoutant du Schumann / Listening to Schumann (1883)
• Fernhörer, “telephone receiver”, “earphone” ← Fern, “far”, + -hörer, “listener”, “receiver”
Forty Thousand Līchs
Faster Than Lichen #6 (front cover)
Faster Than Lichen #6 (back cover)
Elsewhere Other-Accessible…
• Songs from the Center of the Sun — an interview with Faster Than Lichen
Overlord In Terms of Core Issues Around Maximal Engagement with Key Notions of the Über-Feral 