sketch page of owls.

another throwback. Owly shapes
#art #sketch #ink

Unidiversity

Don't be such a moaner, Lisa

Schools are having them removed from classes and libraries. They aren't banned. You can get them if you want.

Outstanding concert
youtu.be/mTyi42VYITw?...

I'm reading this book about mushrooms called Let's Get Fungal. Highly recommend. There's a chapter about different notions of time & linearity, which I really resonate with creatively. But there's a quote here that has been tremendously helpful in shifting my brain in a new and wonderful way:

René Magritte ~ The Menaced Assassin (1927)

Derived from a scene from the Fantomas film of 1912 it depicts figures watching the "murderer" of a mannequin.
Magritte was fascinated by the character who can pass unseen through matter, defy the establishment, and subvert its order
#Magritte #Surrealism

Salvador Dali
#Dali #LewisCarroll #BOTD

Salvador Dali's frontispiece illustration for Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, from 1969.

Salvador Dali
#SalvadorDali #LewisCarroll #BOTD

Salvador Dali's illustration for Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, from 1969.

Alice’s Evidence

Russian Surrealist painter, set and costume designer Pavel Tchelitchew ~ Mercure

One of the fifteen intricate “x-ray” oil paintings (referred to as the "the dancing box” series) the artist created during the last year of his life.
#Surrealism

Cover of the book mentioned in the post. The cover image is a medieval illumination which shows a figure, Saint Wenceslas, carrying a bowl to a group of seated nobles, while Saint Michael the Archangel hovers behind him with his right hand stretched towards the king's head as in benediction. The style of the illumination shows German influence.

I'm starting the week with some self-promotion & a reminder about the open access volume 'The Cult of Saints and Legitimization of Elite Power in East Central and Northern Europe up to 1300', co-edited by Grzegorz Pac, myself, & Jón Viðar Sigurðsson: www.brepolsonline.net/doi/10.1484/....

I'm right that you can still get them and you're right that they are banned from classrooms and school libraries.
So, "Banned" doesn't quite land. I know what you mean, though.

I understand that. But the fact you can order them and read them means that they are not banned. Schools and libraries don't have many books. They aren't banned either. They just don't have them

They aren't. They can be ordered. "Banned" is their brand, I suppose.
They all have a history of subversiveness.

Thinking about Julia in Orwell's 1984 who worked on the "novel-writing machines in the Fiction Department."

"She could describe the whole process of composing a novel, from the general directive issued by the Planning Committee down to the final touching-up by the Rewrite Squad."

Manufacturing Intellect The primary focus of Manufacturing Intellect is to rescue and preserve the greatest intellectual voices and bring them to you. I do this by assiduously searching for rare and unavailable video and aud...

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Well, according to the poem's lyric structure...

Promote
Promote your book
Promoting books is resistance

We're gonna need a bigger boat