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❝ I still haven’t figured out how to sit across from you, and not be madly in love with everything you do. ❞

— 𝐱: 𝐙𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐚 & 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫

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INDEX

CLASSICO E ROMANTICO

William Blake, Newton

Jöhan Heinrich Füssli, L'incubo

Étienne-Luoise Boullée, Progetto per il cenotafio di Newton

Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, Casa delle Guardie campestri

John Constable, La chiusa

e il mulino di Flatford

William Turner, Mare in tempesta

Francisco Goya, Fucilazione

Jacques-Louis David, La morte di Marat

Antonio Canova, Monumento di Maria Cristina d’Austria

Jean-August-Dominique Ingres, La bagnante di Valpingon

Théodore Géricault, La zattera della Medusa

Eugène Delacroix, La Libertà guida il popolo

Lorenzo Bartolini, Monumento funebre della contessa Zamoyska

François Rude, Rilievo dell'Arco di trionfo di Parigi Camille Corot, La cattedrale di Chartres

Théodore Rousseau, Temporale; veduta della piana di Montmartre

Honoré Daumier, Vogliamo Barabba

Constantin Guys, Per la strada

Honoré Daumier, Il vagone di terza classe

François Millet, L’Angelus

Camille Pissarro, Sentiero nel bosco in estate

LA REALTA' E LA COSCIENZA (l’Impressionismo; La fotografia; Il Neo-impressionismo; Il Simbolismo; L’architettura degli ingegneri)

Gustave Courbet, Ragazze in riva alla Senna (Estate)

Edouard Manet, Le déjeuner sur l'herbe

Alfred Sisley, Isola della Grande Jatte

Claude Monet, Regate ad Argenteuil;

Claude Monet, La Cattedrale di Rouen

Auguste Renoir, Le Moulin de la Galette 

Edgar Degas, L'absinthe

Paul Cézanne, L'asino e i ladri

Paul Cézanne, La casa dell'impiccato ad Auvers (Non Aversa)

Paul Cézanne, I giocatori di carte

Paul Cézanne, La montagna Sainte-Victoire 

Georges Seurat, Una domenica pomeriggio all’isola della Grande-Jatte

Paul Signac, Ingresso del porto a Marsiglia

Paul Gauguin, Te Tamari No Atua

Vincent van Gogh, Ritratto del postino Roulin 

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, La toilette

Henri Rousseau detto il Doganiere, La Guerra 

Odilon Redon, Nascita di Venere

Gustave Moreau, L'apparizione 

Pierre Bonnard, La toilette del mattino

Auguste Rodin, Monumento a Balzac

Medardo Rosso, Impressione di bambino davanti alle cucine economiche

I pittori della cerchia di Mallarmé

Edouard Vuillard, La pappa di Annette.

James MeNeill Whistler, Notturno in blu e oro: il vecchio ponte di Battersea

L' OTTOCENTO IN ITALIA, IN GERMANIA, IN INGHILTERRA

1. Giovanni Fattori, In vedetta

IL MODERNISMO (Urbanistica e architettura moderniste; Art Nouveau; La pittura del Modernismo; Pont-Aven e Nabis)

1. Antoni Gaudí, Casa Milá a Barcellona

2. Adolf Loos, Casa Steiner a Vienna

3. Antoni Gaudi, Il Parco Güell a Barcellona

L’ARTE COME ESPRESSIONE (Espressionismo; La grafica dell’Espressionismo)

1. Edvard Munch, Pubertà

André Derain, Donna in camicia

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Marcella

Henri Matisse, La danza

Emil Nolde, Rose rosse e gialle

Oskar Kokoschka, Chamonix, Monte Bianco

L’EPOCA DEL FUNZIONALISMO (Urbanistica, architettura, disegno industriale; Pittura e scultura; Der blaue Reiter; L’avanguardia russa; La situazione italiana; École de Paris; Dada; Il Surrealismo; La situazione in Inghilterra; La situazione italiana: Metafisica, Novecento, anti-Novecento)

Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye a Poissy

Le Corbusier, Cappella di Nötre-Dame-du-Haute a Ronchamp

Walter Gropius, La Bauhaus a Dessau

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Plastico di un grattacielo in verro per Chicago

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Seagram Buildings a New York

Tre progetti per il Palazzo dei Soviet. Le Corbusier e Pierre Jeanneret,

Walter Gropius, Bertold Luberkin,

Teo van Docsburg e Hans Arp, Cinema-ristorante L'Aubette a Strasburgo.

Thomas Gerrit Rietveld, Poltrona con elementi in nero, rosso, blu

Pier Mondrian, Composizione in rosso, giallo, blu

Aivar Aalto, Sanatorio a Paimio - Poltrona

Frank Lloyd Wright, Casa Kaufmann a Bear Run 

Pablo Picasso, I saltimbanchi; Les demoiselles d’Avignon; Natura morta spagnola

Georges Braque, Narura morta con l’asso di fiori

Robert Delaunay, Tour Eiffel

Juan Gris, Natura morta con fruttiera e bottiglia d’acqua

Georges Braque, Natura morta con credenza: Café-bar

Marcel Duchamp, Nu descendant un escalier n. 2

Umberto Boccioni, Forme uniche nella continuità dello spazio

Giacomo Balla, Automobile in corsa

Vasili; Kandinsky, Primo acquerello astratto; Punte nell'arco

Paul Klee, Strada principale e strade laterali

Anton Pevsner, Costruzione dinamica

Naum Gabo, Costruzione nello spazio; Il cristallo

Fernand Léger, Composizione con tre figure

Joan Miró, La lezione di sci; Donne e uccello al chiaro di luna

Giuseppe Terragni, Progetto dell'Asilo Sant'Elia a Como

Atanasio Soldati, Composizione

Constantin Brancusi, La Maiastra 

Amedeo Modigliani, Ritratto di Léopold Zborowski 

Georges Rouault, Cristo Deriso

Marc Chagall, A la Russie, aux anes et aux autres

Pablo Picasso, Guernica

René Magritte, La condizione umana Il

Man Ray, Motivo perpetuo 

Henry Moore, Figura sdraiata

Alexander Calder, Mobile

Ben Nicholson, Feb. 28-53 (Vertical Seconds)

Francis Bacon, Studio dal ritratto di Innocenzo X di Velázquez

Diego Rivera, L'esecuzione dell'imperatore Massimiliano

David Alfaro Sigueiros, Morte all'invasore

Giorgio De Chirico, Le Muse inquietanti

Carlo Carrà, L'amante dell'ingegnere 

Alberto Savinio, Nella foresta

Osvaldo Licini, Amalasunta su fondo blu

Giorgio Morandi, Natura morta con fruttiera

7. LA CRISI DELL'ARTE COME "SCIENZA EUROPEA" (Urbanistica e architettura; La ricerca visiva; La pittura negli Stati Uniti)

Ellsworth Kelly, Verde, blu, rosso

Morris Louis, Gamma Delta

László Moholy-Nagy, Composizione Q XX

Julius Bissier, 25 settembre 1963?

Josef Albers, Omaggio al quadrato

Arshile Gorky, Giardino a Sochi 

Jean Fautrier, Nudo

Jean Dubuffet, Orateur

André Masson, Les Chevaliers

Hans Hartung, Composizione 

Jackson Pollock, Sentieri ondulati

Mark Rothko, Rosso e blu su rosso

Albero Burri, Sacco B. 

Antoni Tápies, Bianco e arancione 

Giuseppe Capogrossi, Superficie 114

Lucio Fontana, Concetto spaziale: attesa 

Alberto Giacometti, Figura

Ettore Colla, Officina solare 

Mark Tobey, Circus transfigured

Georges Mathieu, Cast 

Victor Vasarély, Composizione. 

Kenneth Noland, Empireo 

Clyfford Still, 1962-D

Emilio Vedova, Plurimo n. 1; Le mani addosso 

Robert Rauschenberg, Letto

Mimmo Rotella, Marilyn 

Roy Lichtenstein, Il tempio di Apollo

Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe

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riverrun. Yes, probably the writer Aaron Gwyn, who's done two threads now—one, two—and amusingly replied to someone who self-righteously asked how reading Finnegans Wake made one "a better human."

I can't be much help, however. I've certainly read some of FW over the years. In Colin MacCabe's Joyce seminar back in the year 2001 we read the Shem and Shaun part and the conclusion with Anna Livia Plurabelle; in graduate school I was in an FW reading group for a few months where we did the first 100 pages or so. But I've never read the whole thing, whatever "reading" here means.

I didn't enjoy the reading group, through no fault of theirs, because they quite correctly leaned in to the aspect of the book—maybe the only real aspect the book has in the end—that calls for a cross-word puzzler's head full of verbal trivia. This tends not to be the level on which I enjoy literature.

MacCabe, on the other hand, persuaded me of book's weight with his psychoanalytic classroom gloss on lines like

If you spun your yarns to him on the swishbarque waves I was spelling my yearns to her over cottage cake.

A cursory Google turns up MacCabe's interpretation here:

As Anna thinks back over her past life, she remembers how much her husband (the ubiquitous figure who is indicated by the letters HCE) wanted a daughter, hoping for a female in the family who would believe his stories, who would give to him the respect that he feels is his due. But the father is inevitably disappointed for the mother teaches her daughter that beneath the stories and the identities lies the world of letters and desire. While the father tells the son stories, the mother teaches the daughter the alphabet: “If you spun your yarns to him on the swishbarque waves I was spelling my yearns to her over cottage cake” (FW, 620). The father’s yarns (stories) are displaced by the mother’s yearns (desires); telling gives way to spelling. It is this struggle between meaning and sound, between story and language, between male and female that Finnegans Wake enacts, introducing the reader to a world in which his or her own language can suddenly reveal new desires beneath old meanings as the material of language forms and reforms.

Is this enough to make me proceed through the verbal thicket? I can't shake the feeling that Joyce here demands too many public rights for a purely private fixation. Updike, introducing Nabokov's Lectures on Literature:

For Nabokov, the world—art's raw material—is itself an artistic creation, so insubstantial and illusionistic that he seems to imply a masterpiece can be spun from thin air, by pure act of the artist's imperial will. Yet works like Madame Bovary and Ulysses glow with the heat of resistance that the will to manipulate meets in banal, heavily actual subjects. Acquaintance, abhorrence, and the helpless love we give our own bodies and fates join in these transmuted scenes of Dublin and Rouen; away from them, in works like Salammbô and Finnegans Wake, Joyce and Flaubert yield to their dreaming, dandyish selves and are swallowed by their hobbies.

This may also by true of VN's Ada, which I never finished. We each draw the line in a different place. I'm sure I'm only denying myself an advanced form of pleasure. This is, after all, what I'd tell people who with a truculent and phony populism would spurn the incomparable joys of Ulysses.

Re: Flaubert and Joyce—I'm too lazy to hunt for it, but I think I actually said that Ulysses breaks the sentence free. Flaubert immobilized prose by turning it into blocks of precision reportage—granted, this is not quite fair to Flaubert—but Joyce loosened it up again by turning it into poetry, "poetry" implying both euphony and polysemy. Pound, quoting a German to Latin dictionary in ABC of Reading: "Dichten = condensare." Finnegans Wake is, I can't deny it, the logical-teleological next step in the Hegelian process, making every single word a whole world, Blake's "heaven in a grain of sand."

(Some of what's said against FW could be said against Pound's Cantos—of which I've read some—and Blake's Jerusalem—of which I've read all, whatever [again!] "reading" here means.)

Since I am not actually barred from this promised land, why do I still content myself with what Stephen Dedalus calls, with unsurprising reference not only to a book everybody knows but also to a book nobody does, "A Pisgah Sight of Palestine"? Is it time for me to give the Wake another try?

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JOAN OF ARC

1. Joan of Arc by John Everett Millais; 2. Jeanne d'arc écoutant les voix by François-Léon Benouville; 3. Joan of Arc by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; 4. Joan of Arc by William Blake Richmond; 5. Joan of Arc's Death at the Stake by Hermann Anton.

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🖼️  and 🌧️ for the moodboards!!!

Thank you, anon!

Ev’s favourite weather

Dry heat. The hotter, the better.

Ev’s favourite art

This was actually hard.

Ev would have quite diverse (and self-contradicting) art taste, admiring both academism and minimalistic modern art. New things and styles excite her. What she likes most in paintings are colours, sense of texture and the hidden symbolism. So the artists featured are:

William Blake

top right - “The Ancient of Days”, top left - “The Conversion of Saul”

Dark, highly original, full of symbols and references to other art and often created solely for the purpose of communicating personal views. Ev would adore Blake.

Impressionism

top middle - Claude Monet "Impression, sunrise"; middle left - Armand Guillaumin "sunset at Ivry”; in the centre - Joaquin Sorolla "The Bathing hour”; bottom right - Claude Monet “Rouen Cathedral, Study Of The Portal”

Moving away from the traditional methods, unusual visual angles and inclusion of movement and light in their changing qualities.

Lawrence Alma-Tadema

middle right - “Silver favourites”, bottom left - “The Women of Amphissa”

Ancient folks (mostly women) leisurely laying on the cool marble is pretty much the most visually pleasing thing Ev can imagine. So she will adore Alma-Tadema too.

Yves Klein

Anthropometrie

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Uniworld Paris to Paris River Cruise Recap

Hey everyone, today I’m finally sharing my Uniworld Paris to Paris River Cruise Recap. Blake and I went on our first river boat cruise through Paris and Normandy  this past October on the B ship, which is one of Uniworld’s newly renovated ships. We had an absolute blast exploring Paris, Rouen, Versailles and more with our U hosts. What are U hosts? They’re two fun and knowledgable hosts that work…

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Artists & Designers associated with the Arts & Crafts Movement

1. Maxwell Armfield

Birthplace: Ringwood, United Kingdom

Nationality: English

Education: Birmingham School of Art, Académie de la Grande Chaumière

Movements: Arts and crafts movement, Birmingham Group

Art Forms: Painting, Tempera

Maxwell Ashby Armfield (1881 – 1972) was an English artist, illustrator and writer. In 1887 he was admitted to Birmingham School of Art, then under the headmastership of Edward R. Taylor and established as a major centre of the Arts and Crafts Movement. There he studied under Henry Payne and Arthur Gaskin and, outside the school, received instruction in tempera painting from Joseph Southall at Southall's studio in Edgbaston.

Oh! Willo! Willo! Willo! 1902 

How?

According to Alexander Ballard, the artist sold T.1902 to a private collector who afterwards exchanged it for another painting by Armfield, a flower piece; Charles and Lavinia Handley-Read; Thomas Stainton.

What? 

The title relates to the late sixteenth or early seventeenth-century song of lost love, ‘Willow Song’, by an anonymous composer and used, with alterations, by Shakespeare in Othello. 

Oil paint on canvas, 445 x 289 mm. 

Who?

Artist Maxwell Ashby Armfield

When?

Inscribed ‘June to August 1902 AD’ and monogram b.l. 

Purchased from Thomas Stainton through the Fine Art Society Ltd (Benson Fund) 1974.

Where?

Published in The Tate Gallery 1974-6: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions, London 1978

Why?

Nope

2. Joseph Southall

Birthplace: Nottingham, United Kingdom

Nationality: United Kingdom, England

Education: Birmingham School of Art

Movements: Arts and crafts movement, Birmingham Group

Art Forms: Mural, Painting, Tempera, Political, Cartoons, Decorative arts

Joseph Edward Southall (1861 – 1944) was an English painter associated with the Arts and Crafts movement. After an education at Quaker schools including Ackworth School and Bootham School in York, Southall returned to Birmingham in 1878 and was articled as a trainee with the leading local architects' practice Martin & Chamberlain, while studying painting part-time at the Birmingham School of Art. Both institutions were steeped in the spirit of John Ruskin and the Arts and Crafts movement: architect John Henry Chamberlain was a founder and trustee of the Guild of St George, while the Principal of the School of Art, Edward R. Taylor, was a pioneer of Arts and Crafts education and a friend of William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. Southall however was frustrated by his architectural training, feeling that an architect should have a broader understanding of craft disciplines such as painting and carving. With this in mind he undertook several tours in Europe. In 1882 he visited Bayeux, Rouen and Amiens in Northern France. The following year, having left Martin & Chamberlain, he spent thirteen weeks in Italy, visiting Pisa, Florence, Siena, Orvieto, Rome, Bologna, Padua, Venice and Milan.Italy was to have a profound impact. The frescoes of Benozzo Gozzoli were to inspire a deep admiration for the painters of the Italian Renaissance who - before the practice of oil painting spread to Italy from Northern Europe in the sixteenth century - worked largely in egg-based tempera.

Cinderella 1893–1895

How?

After studying architecture from 1878 until 1882, Joseph Southall decided to devote himself to art. He was largely self taught and much influenced by Ruskin's ideas and early Italian paintings, notably Carpaccio's. He was helped first by Sir William Blake Richmond, and later by Burne-Jones who was born in Birmingham where Southall spent all his life from the age of one.

During the 1880's and early '90's Southall taught himself to paint in tempera. It was during the course of the necessary research that he painted T.1930, a watercolour, the first work he exhibited at the Royal Academy.

What?

In painting ‘Cinderella’ Southall took his subject from what is probably the most popular fairy story in Britain. (See Iona and Peter Opie, The Classic Fairy Tales, London 1974). In T01930, as in many Italian quattrocento paintings, more than one action is depicted in the same picture. Cinderella is shown, dressed in kitchen clothes, waving goodbye to her step-sisters, who are departing for the ball, from a first floor window in the house in the right background. She is also depicted in the left foreground after her kitchen rags have been transformed into fine clothes suitable for a ball.

Watercolour on paper, 543 x 384 mm.

Who?

Artist Joseph Edward Southall.

When?

Inscribed ‘JES’ (monogram) 1893–5 b.l. 

Purchased at Sotheby's (Grant-in-Aid) 1974 

Where?

Published in The Tate Gallery 1974-6: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions, London 1978

Why?

Nope

3. Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt

Birthplace: Birmingham, United Kingdom

Nationality: United Kingdom

Movements: Aestheticism, Arts and Crafts movement, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Symbolist literature

Art Forms: Painting

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt (1833 – 1898) was a British artist and designer closely associated with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, who worked closely with William Morris on a wide range of decorative arts as a founding partner in Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. He attended Birmingham's King Edward VI grammar school from 1844 and the Birmingham School of Art from 1848 to 1852, before studying theology at Exeter College, Oxford. At Oxford he became a friend of William Morris as a consequence of a mutual interest in poetry. The two Exeter undergraduates, together with a small group of Jones' friends from Birmingham known as the Birmingham Set, speedily formed a very close and intimate society, which they called "The Brotherhood". The members of the Brotherhood read John Ruskin and Tennyson, visited churches, and worshipped the Middle Ages. At this time Burne-Jones discovered Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur which was to be so influential in his life. At that time neither Burne-Jones nor Morris knew Rossetti personally, but both were much influenced by his works, and met him by recruiting him as a contributor to their Oxford and Cambridge Magazine which Morris founded in 1856 to promote their ideas.

King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid 1884

How?

Burne-Jones first attempted the story in an oil painting of 1861–62 (now in the Tate Gallery, London). He was working out a new composition around 1874 or 1875, and began the painting in earnest in 1881. He worked on it through the winter of 1883–84, declaring it finished in April 1884.

The composition is influenced by Andrea Mantegna's Madonna della Vittoria (1496–96). Several studies for the final work survive. A small gouache (bodycolour) of c. 1883 (now in the collection of Andrew Lloyd Webber) shows the king and the beggar maid much closer together, and a full-scale cartoon in bodycolour and coloured chalks of the same year (now in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery) features an entirely different approach to lighting the figures.

What?

Burne-Jones’s painting of the African king Cophetua and his love for the beggar Penelophon was based on an Elizabethan ballad and Tennyson’s poem The Beggar Maid. The painting became famous for its technical execution and theme of love and beauty transcending power and material wealth. It was regarded as one of the finest paintings ever produced by a British artist and was widely admired on the Continent. The picture’s egalitarian story has also been connected with the socialism of Burne-Jones’s close friend William Morris.

Oil paint on canvas, 2934 x 1359 mm (3885 x 2200 x 220).

Who?

Artist Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt

When?

Inscribed in April 1884.

The painting was purchased by the Earl of Wharncliffe (d. 1899) and acquired by public subscription through the Burne-Jones Memorial Fund from his executors in 1900. 

Where?

Tate Britain, London

Why?

Nope

SOURCE: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell_Armfield

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Southall

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Burne-Jones

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/armfield-oh-willo-willo-willo-t01902

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/southall-cinderella-t01930

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/burne-jones-king-cophetua-and-the-beggar-maid-n01771

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Koestler, Dufour, le Golem et moi

Je sais ce que je faisais précisément le lundi 6 octobre 2014 à 20h00. Je rentrais de Paris, après un saut à Gibert, les oreilles branchées sur France Musique. Débutait un concert de musique contemporaine. « Pfff, que je me dis, encore un truc qui va me prendre la tête ! » (Oui, je me parle comme ça intérieurement, je suis très familier avec moi-même.)

Je continue de râler : « Bon, j’écoute 5 mn, et je remets TSF, Radio Nova ou au pire, France Culture... » Arnaud Merlin présente le concert. Le musicien ? Hugues Dufourt. « Connais pas. » L'ensemble ? Les percussions de Strasbourg. « Là, je vois un peu. » La pièce s'intitule Burning Bright, le sous-titre : Voyage au cœur de la matière. « Ouah. » Elle s'inspire du poème Tyger de William Blake. Durée annoncée : 65 mn. « Bon courage ! » Tandis que mon train file dans la nuit, je sors de mon sac un livre trouvé à Gibert, une biographie d'Arthur Koestler, L'homme sans concessions, par Michel Laval. Je lis les premières pages pendant que la musique de Dufour s'égrène. Mais est-ce qu'on peut parler de musique ? Des nappes ou des vagues de sons qui se propagent, des trucs qui tintinnabulent. Ça explose, mais pas trop. ça oscille comme des vagues, on a envie de se laisser porter, d'ailleurs c'est ce qu'on fait. Jamais rien entendu de pareil. Et au lieu d'être largué ou assommé, je suis envoûté. Dans ma tête, le râleur s'est tu. Il n'y a plus que la musique. Qui m'emporte.

Les mots de Michel Laval s'y mêlent, le siècle de Koesler nous happe comme une tornade, le train, ses passagers, le livre et moi. Bientôt, les gens autour disparaissent, la rame se transforme en une rue de Budapest et j'avance sur des pavés luisants. J'arpente les rues et l'histoire de la ville à mesure que Laval la restitue. On est en septembre 1905. Citant Musil, il écrit : « On reconnaît les villes à leur démarche. » « Budapest où Arthur Koestler passa les premières années de sa vie, s'avançait en courant au centre de l'Empire. »

J'y suis. La ville, en pleine ascendance, est paradoxale... modernité, volonté de s'affranchir de la tutelle de Vienne, et aussi nostalgie des tribus hongroises d'Arpad et de Kurzsan qui la fondèrent mille ans plus tôt. « Une légende prétendait que la famille Koestler descendait du grand rabbin et savant kabbaliste Elijah de Chelm ou Loeb, qui avait créé le personnage d'argile du Golem pour protéger les juifs de Prague des persécutions. » Je change de trottoir, de peur de croiser le Golem (*). On n’est pas à Prague, mais quand même. A tous les coups, ça me remonte d'un vieux Woody Allen.

Plus loin, Laval décrit la naissance de l'auteur du Zéro et l'infini : « Le premier cri d'Arthur Koestler s'échappa de la chambre où il venait de naître, bouscula les hommes qui entouraient son père sur le pas de la porte, dévala quatre à quatre les escaliers (sic) remonta l'avenue Andrassy, parcourut la place de l'Octogone, flâna à la terrasse du café Jàpan, franchit le Danube, traversa l'espace et s'évanouit dans la rumeur du monde. »

La sonnerie du RER me tire un instant du concert, et tandis qu'un flot de voyageurs descend à Bourg La Reine, je me fonds moi aussi dans la rumeur du monde. La musique de Dufour me reprends et me perd à nouveau dans le passé...

...Deux ans plus tard, une version de Burning Bright est sortie en cd (enregistrée en 2016 alors que mon concert date du 25.09.2014) et récompensée par la presse musicale. En lisant le Diapason n°650 d'Octobre 2016, j'appris que les musiciens de Burning Bright n'étaient qu'au nombre de six ! Ils méritent qu'on les cite : Claude Ferrier, Bernard Lesage, Keiko Nakamura, Minh-Tâm Nguyen, François Papirer et Olaf Tzschoppe. Le critique, Pierre Rigaudière, dit à leur propos : « Dans cette forme longue, comme en risquent peu de compositeurs, ils préviennent toute rupture de l'influx nerveux : ils ne se contentent pas de nous projeter dans une écoute contemplative, mais veillent à nous y maintenir. »

Effectivement. Je ne sais pas comment, j'arrive à ma station sans la rater. J'ai fermé le livre, demeure la musique. Je sors de la gare comme un somnambule et me retrouve sur le pas de ma porte. Je suis réveillé par les applaudissements du concert qui s'achève.

Un extrait ici : https://vimeo.com/117315819

Depuis, j'ai réécouté le disque, sans Koestler, et bien  que ce soit une captation différente, la magie opère toujours. Pour finir, je découvre en écrivant ces lignes le poème de William Blake, Tyger dont voici les premiers vers, suivis de ma modeste traduction (J'ai pris des libertés en introduisant un athanor, mais l'alchimiste des sons qu'est Dufour ne m'en voudra peut-être pas ? Quant à Blake...) :

Tyger tyger, burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare seize the fire?

                        *

Tigre, Ô Tigre! Flamme qui luit Dans des forêts de la nuit, Quelle main, quel œil, quel génie Traça ton effrayante symétrie ?

Dans quels gouffres ou de quels cieux Puisa-t-il le feu de tes yeux ? Brûlant ses ailes à tant d'Athanors Quel bras fit de ce feu cet or ?

Je ne sais pas si Fred de Rouen, qui m'a fait l'amitié de parcourir ce blog, y trouvera son compte ? Je sais par ouï-dire que la musique coule dans ses veines et que la littérature le tient debout. Ce billet lui donc est dédié.

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Romantic Tarot Card Pairings

Tagged by @aceghosts to do this quiz!

Lorelei Capulet x Luna Pajeot

the tower + the lovers

meeting this person shook your whole world. crumbling down is everything you thought you knew about life and love. their warmth, their generosity, their naivete, their knowing...! you don't know how anything made sense before them. all you know is that nothing will make sense afterwards. deck: the tarot of the divine by yoshi yoshitani.

Basil O'Malley x Eike Breisacher

the two of cups + the star

your romance is a wish granted. finally, finally, they're here. finally, *it's* here! the time where you don't have to feel lonely anymore - you'll never feel that way ever again. laughter, joy, sweetness, kisses - be at ease. all of these are things you have found someone to share with. your love is a dreamy fantasy of love and devotion and miracles. at first, your chest gets too tight when they're around - until they become as natural as the air in your lungs. deck: ethereal visions tarot.

Rouen Blake x Zofia Bosak

the devil + the emperor

there's only one religion for the two of you, and that religion is the other. you two are very nearly unhealthily obsessed with one another, and that's just how you like it. when they touch you, they can feel the blood pumping under the surface of your skin. your hearts beat for one another. when the day comes that one stops, the other will soon after. until then, you both will live out your lives in perfect, gothy paradise. deck: the tarot of vampyres.

Helena x Geras

knight of pentacles + the magician

if there's something you want, you will GET IT. nothing escapes your fingertips. after all, you're the power couple. your pairing sparks pure cosmic energy. you're fiercely driven to your goals - whether that be status, fortune, or power. you're also fiercely protective of one another. with the knight's earthy energy, you both prefer to purposefully make your way towards your ambitions, rather than playing cards too early or acting too loosely. meanwhile, the magician's half makes gives you a little fire. if they get too close, onlookers and threats to your relationship may get burned. deck: modern witch tarot.

Tagging: @shegetsburned @scentedcandleibex @voidika @jillvalentinesday @jinfromyarikawa @inafieldofdaisies @unbindingkerberos

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Tagged by @poisonedtruth

Ōkami

APPEARANCE

i'm over 5'5' // i wear glasses/contacts // i have blonde hair // i prefer loose clothing to tight clothing // i have one or more piercings // i have at least one tattoo// i have blue eyes // i have dyed or highlighted my hair// i have gotten plastic surgery // i have or had braces // i sunburn easily // i have freckles // i paint my nails // i typically wear makeup // i dont often smile // i am pleased with how i look // i prefer nike to adidas // i wear baseball hats backwards

HOBBIES AND TALENTS

i play a sport // i can play an instrument // i am artistic // i know more than one language // i have won a trophy in some sort of competition // i can cook or bake without a recipe // i know how to swim // i enjoy writing // i can do origami // i prefer movies to tv shows // i can execute a perfect somersault // i enjoy singing // i could survive in the wild on my own // i have read a new book series this year // i enjoy spending time with friends // i travel during school or work breaks // i can do a handstand

RELATIONSHIP

i have been in a relationship (quite a few) // i have been single for over a year // i have a crush // i have a best friend i have known for ten years // my parents are together // i have dated my best friend // i am adopted (by family) // my crush has confessed to me // i have a long distance relationship // i am an only child // i give advice to my friends // i have made an online friend // i met up with someone i have met online

AESTHETICS

i have heard the ocean in a conch shell // i have watched the sun rise // i enjoy rainy days // i have slept under the stars // i meditate outside // the sound of chirping calms me // i enjoy the smell of the beach // i know what snow tastes like // i listen to music to fall asleep // i enjoy thunderstorms // i enjoy cloud watching // i have attended a bonfire // i pay close attention to colors // i find mystery in the ocean // i enjoy hiking on nature paths // autumn is my favorite season

MISCELLANEOUS

i can fall asleep in a moving vehicle // i am the mom friend // i live by a certain quote // i like the smell of sharpies // i am involved in extracurricular activities // i enjoy mexican food // i can drive a stick shift // i believe in true love // i make up scenarios to fall asleep // i sing in the shower // i wish i lived in a video game // i have a canopy above my bed // i am multiracial // i am a redhead // i own at least three dogs 🐶

Haemon

APPEARANCE

i'm over 5'5' // i wear glasses/contacts // i have blonde hair // i prefer loose clothing to tight clothing // i have one or more piercings //i have at least one tattoo// i have blue eyes // i have dyed or highlighted my hair// i have gotten plastic surgery // i have or had braces // i sunburn easily // i have freckles //i paint my nails // i typically wear makeup // i dont often smile // i am pleased with how i look // i prefer nike to adidas // i wear baseball hats backwards

HOBBIES AND TALENTS

i play a sport // i can play an instrument // i am artistic // i know more than one language // i have won a trophy in some sort of competition // i can cook or bake without a recipe // i know how to swim // i enjoy writing // i can do origami // i prefer movies to tv shows // i can execute a perfect somersault // i enjoy singing // i could survive in the wild on my own // i have read a new book series this year // i enjoy spending time with friends // i travel during school or work breaks // i can do a handstand

RELATIONSHIP

i have been in a relationship // i have been single for over a year // i have a crush // i have a best friend i have known for ten years // my parents are together // i have dated my best friend // i am adopted // my crush has confessed to me // i have a long distance relationship // i am an only child // i give advice to my friends // i have made an online friend // i met up with someone i have met online

AESTHETICS

i have heard the ocean in a conch shell // i have watched the sun rise // i enjoy rainy days // i have slept under the stars // i meditate outside // the sound of chirping calms me // i enjoy the smell of the beach // i know what snow tastes like // i listen to music to fall asleep // i enjoy thunderstorms // i enjoy cloud watching // i have attended a bonfire // i pay close attention to colors // i find mystery in the ocean // i enjoy hiking on nature paths // autumn is my favorite season

MISCELLANEOUS

i can fall asleep in a moving vehicle // i am the mom friend // i live by a certain quote // i like the smell of sharpies // i am involved in extracurricular activities // i enjoy mexican food // i can drive a stick shift // i believe in true love // i make up scenarios to fall asleep // i sing in the shower // i wish i lived in a video game // i have a canopy above my bed // i am multiracial // i am a redhead // i own at least three dogs 🐶

Reaper

APPEARANCE

i'm over 5'5' // i wear glasses/contacts // i have blonde hair // i prefer loose clothing to tight clothing // i have one or more piercings //i have at least one tattoo// i have blue eyes // i have dyed or highlighted my hair// i have gotten plastic surgery // i have or had braces // i sunburn easily // i have freckles //i paint my nails // i typically wear makeup // i dont often smile // i am pleased with how i look // i prefer nike to adidas // i wear baseball hats backwards

HOBBIES AND TALENTS

i play a sport // i can play an instrument // i am artistic // i know more than one language // i have won a trophy in some sort of competition // i can cook or bake without a recipe // i know how to swim // i enjoy writing // i can do origami // i prefer movies to tv shows // i can execute a perfect somersault // i enjoy singing // i could survive in the wild on my own // i have read a new book series this year // i enjoy spending time with friends // i travel during school or work breaks // i can do a handstand

RELATIONSHIP

i have been in a relationship // i have been single for over a year // i have a crush // i have a best friend i have known for ten years // my parents are together // i have dated my best friend // i am adopted // my crush has confessed to me // i have a long distance relationship // i am an only child // i give advice to my friends // i have made an online friend // i met up with someone i have met online

AESTHETICS

i have heard the ocean in a conch shell // i have watched the sun rise // i enjoy rainy days // i have slept under the stars // i meditate outside // the sound of chirping calms me // i enjoy the smell of the beach // i know what snow tastes like // i listen to music to fall asleep // i enjoy thunderstorms // i enjoy cloud watching // i have attended a bonfire // i pay close attention to colors // i find mystery in the ocean // i enjoy hiking on nature paths // autumn is my favorite season

MISCELLANEOUS

i can fall asleep in a moving vehicle // i am the mom friend // i live by a certain quote // i like the smell of sharpies // i am involved in extracurricular activities // i enjoy mexican food // i can drive a stick shift // i believe in true love // i make up scenarios to fall asleep // i sing in the shower // i wish i lived in a video game // i have a canopy above my bed // i am multiracial // i am a redhead // i own at least three dogs 🐶

Coyote

APPEARANCE

i'm over 5'5' // i wear glasses/contacts // i have blonde hair // i prefer loose clothing to tight clothing // i have one or more piercings //i have at least one tattoo// i have blue eyes // i have dyed or highlighted my hair// i have gotten plastic surgery // i have or had braces // i sunburn easily // i have freckles //i paint my nails // i typically wear makeup // i dont often smile // i am pleased with how i look // i prefer nike to adidas // i wear baseball hats backwards

HOBBIES AND TALENTS

i play a sport // i can play an instrument // i am artistic // i know more than one language // i have won a trophy in some sort of competition // i can cook or bake without a recipe // i know how to swim // i enjoy writing // i can do origami // i prefer movies to tv shows // i can execute a perfect somersault // i enjoy singing // i could survive in the wild on my own // i have read a new book series this year // i enjoy spending time with friends // i travel during school or work breaks // i can do a handstand

RELATIONSHIP

i have been in a relationship // i have been single for over a year // i have a crush // i have a best friend i have known for ten years // my parents are together (his "parents") // i have dated my best friend // i am adopted // my crush has confessed to me // i have a long distance relationship // i am an only child // i give advice to my friends // i have made an online friend // i met up with someone i have met online

AESTHETICS

i have heard the ocean in a conch shell // i have watched the sun rise // i enjoy rainy days // i have slept under the stars // i meditate outside // the sound of chirping calms me // i enjoy the smell of the beach // i know what snow tastes like // i listen to music to fall asleep // i enjoy thunderstorms // i enjoy cloud watching // i have attended a bonfire // i pay close attention to colors // i find mystery in the ocean // i enjoy hiking on nature paths // autumn is my favorite season

MISCELLANEOUS

i can fall asleep in a moving vehicle // i am the mom friend // i live by a certain quote // i like the smell of sharpies // i am involved in extracurricular activities // i enjoy mexican food // i can drive a stick shift // i believe in true love // i make up scenarios to fall asleep // i sing in the shower // i wish i lived in a video game // i have a canopy above my bed // i am multiracial // i am a redhead // i own at least three dogs 🐶

Tagging: @shegetsburned @scentedcandleibex @jillvalentinesday @voidika

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What DnD class is your oc?

Tagged by @voidika & @unbindingkerberos

Manat

Rogue

You are a Rogue, a skilled adventurer who uses guile and expertise to your advantage. You are often seen as stealthy and precise, aiming for your opponent's weakest points, but you can master various other skills to aid you on your journey. While you tend to be underhanded and greedy, you can also be daring, clever, insightful and charismatic.

Reaper

Paladin

You are a Paladin, a warrior sworn to an Oath, whether it be to a god, a king, an ideology or oneself. As a divine soldier, you are well equipped to strike down evil, but must follow a code of your choosing to retain this power. While you are limited somewhat by these bonds, you are also the most driven and determined member of your group.

Ōkami

Druid

You are a druid, a spellcaster whose power stems from nature. Generally peaceful, you are removed from society and tend to feel more comfortable around wildlife than people. Nevertheless, people are part of the natural world, and when called upon to protect that world you do so with the fury of a storm and the strength of a fire.

Tagging: @scentedcandleibex @lunar-cherries @sstewyhosseini @captmactavish @jillvalentinesday @shegetsburned

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Careful

Word Count: 711

        Jody turns his head away from the gauze, his eyes narrowed at the brunette in warning. 

“ If you don’t let me do this-I will make sure you’re ordered to take time off.” Rouen promises, returning the nasty expression. “ That shit doesn’t work with me.”

“ What. Shit.” The enraged man grits his teeth; with his hair being so disheveled and the mixture of dirt and blood that covers him, it’s no wonder why Reaper’s the only one who offered to deal with him. 

Instead of answering him, the brunette places the gauze back in its packaging and turns on her heel; she’s ready whenever Jody reaches out for her, yanking her arm so he won’t be able to prevent her from leaving. “ Hey!” He barks when she makes a break for the door, “ Rouen please-”

“ Please what?” The Canadian spat at him in the same threatening tone he spoke in before. 

“ Please fucking help me, alright?! Please it…it hurts.” Jody gestures to his head, the fingers on his right hand just as bloodied from being stomped and grinded on. “ It hurts so bad.” 

Rouen tilts her head forward. Her friend returns to the seat and she opens a new pack of gauze, this time not waiting to press it on his head wound. “ What were you thinking…” She wipes some of the running blood, then tosses the stained material and opens another, this time neatly taping it down on the wound. “ These people-they’ll kill someone if enough of ‘em agree on it, you know what. You, J, nor I have made the best impression, so we need to be careful.”

She washes his injured hand and works on bandaging that, wrapping each finger before the palm of the hand. “ Go on-” Rouen’s eyes flicker up at Jody, “-what she’d say? What did you say? How’d the fight happen?” 

Jody goes silent upon hearing the question. The French Canadian glances to his friend’s left, then to her right and his gaze remains on whatever is across the room. “ Roze made a comment, and I got upset.” He decides to answer. “ I’ll give credit where credit’s due-I know no ranger is someone to screw with, but she’s such an asshole, Rouge. Fuck-the other day when she shoved J because he was gonna grab her rifle by mistake? I don’t do shit like that.” 

“ It’s not easy to be around her,” Rouen agrees. “ But, do you remember what Evan said?”

Jody narrows his eyes at her. “ We’re not here to make friends, we’re here to do our jobs.” He repeats mockingly. “ But I can’t do my job if I’m too busy having to worry about watching my own back, can I?” His brows raise when Rouen rolls her eyes at him. “ Go on-tell me I’m wrong and Stiletto totally didn’t try to slice you up two weeks ago. Tell me, Rouge, go on-you know you wanna.” 

The brunette shushes him and places her fingers over his mouth. Jody immediately licks them, earning him a slap on the slap on the shoulder. “ Idiot!” Rouen scolds him before collecting her supplies. “ Listen, I know it’s tough-we all do-but you just gotta try and adjust okay? You find yourself near someone you think will get on your nerves-”

“ I gotta distance myself.” The brunet looks Rouen in the eyes while recalling the line. “ I get, I get it, I get it.”

He runs his fingers through his hair, roughs it up as much as possible, somehow always managing to forget that he gets it cut before going back out into the field. “ Thanks for patching me up, Rouge.” Jody mumbles, letting out a heavy sigh after. “ We should…”

“ Go before they say something, right.” Rouen nods, though it takes her a minute to process what they’re actually doing. She, too, does not want to return among the soldiers that she has to force herself not to return a glare at, not to open her mouth when they converse about her when she’s in the room, to always double check that her gun is with her before she goes to sleep at night. 

She eventually leaves, and it doesn’t take Jody long to follow her out. The only thing worse than having to go undercover is doing it alone.

Tagging: @voidika @shegetsburned @jinfromyarikawa @scentedcandleibex

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WIP whenever

Tagging: @poisonedtruth @unbindingkerberos @voidika @scentedcandleibex @shegetsburned​

Just as Olivier’s fingers grazed the rifle, the brunette reached for the gun, slinging it over her shoulder without even turning in the Frenchman’s direction. “ C’est quoi ce bordel? What are you doing?!” The Frenchman slammed his locker shut and reached for the weapon, only to fail to grab it once again when the Canadian turned to face him. The two appeared to be almost frozen, eyes locked in a quiet battle of sorts; fortunately for the two, neither particularly preferred the “quiet” fight. “ I usually don’t mind repeating myself-but I won’t repeat anything for you because I can already tell you’re a fucking idiot.” Reaper finally answered him. “ So listen well. I’m not here to be anyone’s enemy, just to do my job. And the last thing I need is you running your big mouth and telling me what to do-you do your job and I do mine, motherfucker, understand? If I want advice or orders, I’ll go to Six or Zero. Or someone who’s actually worth respecting. So unless you’ve got something worth saying to me, you can keep your mouth shut, got it?”

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Ship: Your Blood is On My Hands

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