No one has ever written or painted, sculpted, modeled, built, invented, except to get out of hell.
-Antonin Artaud
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Sunday, April 18, 2021
Sunday, February 14, 2021
Warty Pig
Oldest cave art found in Sulawesi
To our knowledge, the animal painting from Leang Tedongnge is the earliest known representational work of art in the world.
created at least 43,900 years ago
executed in red or dark red/purplish (mulberry) mineral pigments (ochre)
measuring 136 cm by 54 cm
Friday, December 25, 2020
Thursday, December 24, 2020
a soul you can trust
Joe Biden's love for Seamus Heaney reveals a soul you can trust
You can’t pretend to love Heaney, for he’s too subtle for that
His peace process in language anticipated – and helped bring about – the political peace process of the 90s.
There is a depth in Biden’s response to Heaney that clearly goes beyond mere political convenience. He has suffered terrible losses in his life and perhaps he finds particular solace in this poet who voyages into the underworld and speaks with the departed. This appreciation of one of the wisest and subtlest of poets marks out Biden as a truly rare politician.
In general it is a good thing that poets are not, as Shelley claimed, the true legislators of the world. Would you want the antisemitic TS Eliot, Mussolini-supporting Ezra Pound or petty racist Philip Larkin influencing politics? But Heaney was that truly rare thing: a great imaginative artist who was also a wise and noble human being.
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Kurt Vonnegut
Facsimiles of the letters, along with previously published messages from after Kurt Vonnegut was released as a prisoner of war, comprise the new book "Love, Kurt: The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941-1945"
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