“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
Written by Allegra Printz : “The Ring (Wagner’s opera and the ancient stories) speaks to such current experiences as the need for the old order – “ancient fires” – of the Piscean Age to recognise and yield to the incoming qualities of the Aquarian Age in an energetic transition due to the precession of the […]
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Oh. I may’ve got sidetracked somewhere today. Back to me, me, me. I’ve reached the Synopsis.v Do not get me on that subject. Writing a synopsis Hurts one’s brain! Anyhoos Plot Synopsis of the four part Ring of the Nibelung Prologue. What? Get on with the juice!! Oh, The Rhinegold. Or Rheingold, Or…. Scene One […]
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Finally. After almost 2 hours. I get to open my new delivery. The first thing I read is… Prophesy of Völuspá – The Seeress Hear me, all you hallowed beings, Both high and low, THE FATES I FATHOM, YET FARTHER I SEE Icelandic Poetic Edda – 9th -11th Cent. C.E. I have sooooo […]
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I work every morning for my eldest son’s business (unpaid) But every now and again he shows his appreciation with an Amazon voucher. So I bought the above tarot. For me, this gift will teach more than any books, TV, theses etc And – to top it all – the illustrations are by one of […]
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The illustration above comes from the original epic poem (which is really prose) that I’m reading now. I have Never come across this before but it is a beautiful gift that’s a bit (!) addictive :o) The TBR pile just fell over. M’eh! The poem, strangely enough, is not set in Georgia, but in […]
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Even as a very young child, I loved this film. Used to watch it with Nan. Not screened much now.
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I was given this book as a gift. It’s a bit tatty now yet still loved. It’s the kind of thing a pathetic, worthless HOUSEWIFE enjoys. Jane Brocket delights in domesticity. Lively, curious and creative, she takes inspiration from her surroundings, from art, literature and nature and, through the gentle arts of knitting, baking […]
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When you go to sleep thinking of something. Wake up thinking of something. It’s a sure sign that “something” is bothering you. Here (I think) I see — The Moon. The Sun. Judgement. The World. The Fool. A Page. A King. The Hierophant. ? Is there anyone out there who knows this deck or can […]
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Do the REsearch yourselves. Christ Crucified on the mast of a ship. Very cream-crackered now. WikiM;eh : Ghost Ships Neverendingstory.
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Odilon Redon’s c. 1914 oil painting of Pandora as an innocent Eve REwind. REpeat. Sorry to be SOOOOO Boring. I love Odilon Redon’s work. A banner/header or two above shows that. REwind. REpeat. The first story in the book was Pandora. SlickiWiki : Pandora
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Always the Bard! What, man! ’tis a night of revels: the gallants desire it. It took me a long time to read the book. And David Suchet a long time to film this episode. Even though Ms Christie had written it quite early in her career. She uses the Iago character So Very Well! It’s […]
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I’ve been looking at his pictures. Along with the V&A, I need to re-visit the National Gallery. I could spend a whole month there just gazing, wide-eyed and breathless. But I always seem to go with peeps on fast forward. Sigh. Wiki : Paolo Caliari Adoration of the Magi
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