Mountains, photograph, walks, nature, reading, I Ching & philosophy. "Find beauty. Be still" (W.H. Murray) also when unpleasant code has broken your web site.
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Sunset and pink in the sky, blackbird alarm and mist. Cold, and my phone says seven, but feels colder starting with eyes, hands, feet.
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"Pro patria mori" but they had no choice. Wilfred Owen wrote his famous poem October 1917-March 1918 while serving as a British Army officer on the Western Front. Killed in action November 4th 1918, one week before the Armistice.
'One minute after the hour. All guns silent.'
At 11am on 11 November 1918, the guns fell silent on the Western Front. This document from IWM's collections visualises the silence, showing artillery activity for one minute before and one minute after the Armistice.
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I find books are generally better than the film or TV version. Sometimes worse, for example with Mario Puzo's The Godfather. Sometimes different, and equal, for example with A Month in the Country, The Remains of the Day, and this.
"It was as though someone had switched off the wireless, and a voice that had been bawling in my ears, incessantly, fatuously, for days beyond number, had been suddenly cut short; an immense silence followed"
- Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)
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Coffee, M and S Italian. Mug, Greece, probably Crete maybe 20 years ago. I never thought The Bacchae would make me laugh. It does, and Anne Carson is a genius.
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Tu as vu la Lune en entier. Viste la Luna entera. Hai visto la Luna per intero. This version, far away from the others (thanks @riosdeltiempo). youtube.com/watch?v=3dZ5KjFL…
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James Lomax retweeted
"To wound the earth, he answered earnestly, is to wound yourself, and if others wound the earth, they are wounding you. The land should be left untouched: as it was in the Dreamtime when the Ancestors sang the world into existence" - Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines.
The Grapes of Wrath is one of the most powerful books I've ever read. Says 16 year old me. But I trust his instinct, and know what he felt. Don't remember if I read this, but I'm about to find out.
netflix.com/gb/title/8161185…
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Chasing light, colours, juxtapositions, standing in the rain. Out and about for other reasons but it kept being there, so what can you do?
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But don't unweave the rainbow said Keats.
"Do not all charms fly
At the mere touch of cold philosophy?"
Although this is not the problem. More like the rainbow is mathematics and will be replicated with lasers.
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There's a mood for Greece, partly because of The Odyssey. Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger & Fukuyama knew Greek ideas. Uηδὲν ἄγαν is pronounced mēdèn ágan & means nothing in excess. Which is why Athena/Minerva is my favourite god/dess. She arbitrates from the centre & Has An Owl.
A stunning line from Hegel:
"The owl of Minerva takes its flight only when the shades of night are gathering"
- sunset in Snowdonia.
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The View With An Idea. Small stream I hear but cannot see. A large tree behind me, covered in red berries. Sun, sandals, and "the smile of philosophy."
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