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Remembers Robert Crumbs vivid cartoon The Family That Lays Together Stays Together
(worth googling)

A landscape in silhouette - black against an inky blue sky. We see the outline of a church tower in front of a river, with trees and a few houses. Overhead in the starry sky there is a meteor shower

The Night Sky, 1965
The #Perseids
Artist: Robert Ayton

Curtisland not enchanting!😟

Bed hopping. Aging. Falling leaves.

Cheever 4 tha real thing. ( this is Cheever season btw. )

Session is generally 10 days, sesshin an intense 3 day period within those 10 days.

Zen sesshin is not everyone's cup of tea; but I sincerely, in my heart feel everyone should do it. As a way to authentically touch the mind.

They broke the mould...

Bloody fool in it, of course. Bloody fool!

Great film, Mammuth!

32 degrees in the afternoon, 3 o clock, and I was strafted by a bat in the dojo. This is absolutely true.

It's a how many red flagger for you, Rob? Kremlin numbers?

Wilhiem Miester, Goethe?

Italian movie, called Le Pigeon in France and remade as Small Town Crooks by Woody Allen, is, if you like European film, the daddy of them all & a hugely important film in Italian cinema.

'The Sealous Scouts, Lowe! The *Sealous Scouts*. We poach them Lowe! We say: 'you! we've brandy and borewores. You!: we've antibiotics and stamps' and.. so on and so forth. We poach them Lowe. We create a unit of piratical resilience that Rhodesia has never seen'

'You *reckless bloody fool*, Tice'

Beckett has a hedgehog atrocity in Company. A gentler man than grumpy Phil.

Rock star shares débauched life everyone loves it, yet if I shared a few tales I would be looked on with approbation. That's capitalism.

But, as Marxists, do we not ask ourselves the question of the priveleging of individual consciousness & the aestheticisation of experience before everything else, swans, cakes?

The whole of Brexit is there.

The German security officer said politely : " Ve do not usually haf oficer prisoners at Lamsdorf und therefore ve do not haf officers' cells.'" "I can't help that," Bader said. " If I'm to have a cell I demand an oficer's cell. I understand my honour has already been suaicientl disgraced." Look, Ving Commander,'"' the German said wearily, f ve haf had a lot of troubles vith you and vith the Kommand- ant. He vas going to take your legs, but I haf talked to him und he has cooled down. If there are more troubles he vill take your legs."

cover of 70s edition of P Brickhill "Reach for the Sky" v popular postwar biog of Douglas Bader, later a film starring the excruciating Kenneth More

how Germans spoke in British war books

A troubadour weary from walking all night looks up. That castle is his next gig, & hes written a cracking aubade for its Queen.

If Austen was 'on one' one feels it would impair her remarkable facilities of sensibility & discernement, while possibly opening her up to a sense of life freed of the rigidities of class.

Communist!👊

A documentary on Claude Nobs, Montreux born & bred, showing some of the greatest music & performances of last 50 years. The moral of the story? If you stay in your home town, don't leave, stick with your earliest passions and never ever waver, you can achieve the greatest of things.

You charged your Mum?!

- Grumpy cat?! A has been! A superficial cat for superficial times. You, my furry friend, will be a cat for a new, complex, era.

blue sky white bird red hat, yellow ribbon black and white cow, chewing yellow flowers green grass blue canal, reflection of black and white cow distant town

That's nice! From the point of view of someone who thinks in parenthesis - all the time, I think in sub clauses - dashes can be nice as a relief from all the sub clauses. 🤓

It strikes me you can use a dash like Leora said, but why not a bracket? I'll use a dash like that sometimes; but if I ask myself, honestly, am I not using a dash for *aesthetic* reasons rather than ponderous looking brackets. 🤓

I remember getting a day off school in 1977 to talk to the local paper about "how the modern world will look." They completely distorted my words. ( It was a class attack. )