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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #71
Papyrocentric Performativity Presents…
• Clive Drive – Unreliable Memoirs (1980) and Always Unreliable: The Memoirs (2001), Clive James
• Nou’s Who – Art Nouveau, Camilla de la Bedoyere (Flame Tree Publishing 2005)
• Hit and Mistletoe – Through It All I’ve Always Laughed, Count Arthur Strong (Faber & Faber 2013)
• Beauties and Beasts — Shardik, Richard Adams (1974)
Or Read a Review at Random: RaRaR
Bee Here Now
Russian Bee Stamps 2005
British Bee Stamps 2015
Elsewhere other-accessible
• Royal Mail bee stamps designed to raise awareness of species
Down in the Bassment
Cover of Damned to Earth’s self-titled debut
I like the cover and the music.
Previously Pre-Posted…
• Museek — in which I don’t like the cover but do like the music
• A Little Light Night Music — in which I don’t like the music but do like the cover
ConstKunst
John Constable’s Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop’s Grounds (1825, Frick Collection)
Elsewhere other-engageable…
• Discussion of Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop’s Grounds (1823) at Wikipedia
Pavonique
Twin-peacock lamp at the V&A by René Lalique (1860-1945)
Twin-peacock lamp by Lalique (alternative view)
Elsewhere other-accessible…
• Nou’s Who — a review of Art Nouveau by Camilla de la Bedoyere
Lavoro di Leonardo?
I first came across this quote about cats in French:
« Le plus petit des félins est une œuvre d’art. »
• “The smallest of felines is a work of art.”
It’s widely attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, but I can’t find any proof that he ever said it. Here it is in a fuller Italian version:
« Anche il più piccolo dei felini, il gatto, è un capolavoro. »
• Même le plus petit des félins, le chat, est un chef-d’œuvre.
•• Even the smallest of felines, the cat, is a masterpiece.
It’s a good quote, wherever it comes from. But the attribution to Leonardo reminds of another saying in Italian: Se non è vero, è ben trovato — “If it’s not true, it’s a happy invention.”
(From Pinterest)
Leonardo’s Étude du mouvement des chats
Bash the Trash
From George Orwell’s “As I Please” for 11th February 1944, Tribune:
THE FOLLOWING lines are quoted in Anthony Trollope’s Autobiography:
When Payne-Knight’s Taste was issued on the town
A few Greek verses in the text set down
Were torn to pieces, mangled into hash,
Hurled to the flames as execrable trash;
In short, were butchered rather than dissected
And several false quantities detected;
Till, when the smoke had risen from the cinders
It was discovered that — the lines were Pindar’s!
Trollope does not make clear who is the author of these lines, and I should be very glad if any reader could let me know. But I also quote them for their own sake — that is, for the terrible warning to literary critics that they contain — and for the sake of drawing attention to Trollope’s Autobiography, which is a most fascinating book, although or because it is largely concerned with money.
Elsewhere Other-Accessible…
• Pindar (c. 518-438 BC) at Wikipedia
• An Analytical Inquiry Into the Principles of Taste (1806) by Richard Payne-Knight at Archive.org
• An Autobiography and Other Writings (1869) by Anthony Trollope at Gutenberg
Museek
Cover of Albinö Rhino’s Upholder (2016)
I don’t like the music, but I do like the cover.
Cover of Maha Sohona’s Endless Searcher (2021)
I don’t like the cover, but I do like the music.
Previously pre-posted…
Flit Lit
From the arts-sports [like ice-dance] I took heart [about my possible triviality]. They proved that creativity is indivisible. The skaters, the divers and the gymnasts reminded me that what I read in books, saw in pictures and heard in music had all started in a fundamental human compulsion to give dynamism shape. […] There are moments in Shakespeare when he sets three or four ideas all travelling at once through each other’s trajectories. He couldn’t have been thinking of Bach, who wasn’t born yet. But he might well have been thinking of a juggler he stopped to watch on the way to work. — from “Souls on Ice: Torvill and Dean”, Postscript (ii), in Reliable Essays: The Best of Clive James, Picador 2001.
Overlord In Terms of Core Issues Around Maximal Engagement with Key Notions of the Über-Feral 