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I just hate this guy and I hate the Office
peurile, asinine, ludicrous rubbish“I detest the smug twat” – Sonia
[img]https://i.imgur.com/jCI9UEs.jpg?1[/img]
(Of course, if you think differently you have the right of reply
please see thread intro for details)When You Are Old
W.B. YeatsWhen you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.[img]https://i.imgur.com/P0fvrs9.jpg?2[/img]
I must say you are not as easy as Corina was
The Three Graces is a 2nd century AD Roman copy of the original Greek statue
and the French currently have it in the Louvre plundered by that tyrant Bonaparte.The contours of the three figures are perfectly formed. I know nothing about the
Three Graces (without looking it up) except that it's incredibly lifelike and that
one of them had a chariot drawn by lionesses which roared out in pain as she
used her whip on them. (Maybe her name was Corina)[img]https://i.imgur.com/eVo3Gky.jpg?1[/img]
No.12
A big chubby sub called Tiffany
Gave me a sudden epiphany
It was made very clear
she was ancient, and dear
She'd claimed she was twenty, Oh Infamy !!My Darling Lucy Schwartz Backyard Sessions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mGUb-ZeMrg
[img]https://i.imgur.com/kkcJ7nU.jpg?1[/img]
Sigebert of Liege (1030 – 1112)
No lily for me, violet or rose,
Lilies for purity, roses for passion denied,
No violets wan, to show with what pure fire
The bride for the bridegroom burns,
I know not how to gild my marigolds,
Proud poppies and narcissus not for me,
Nor flowers written with the names of kings
All that this blockhead zeal of mine could find
Was privet blossom, falling as I touched it,
That never boy or girl would stoop to gather,
And of it, badly woven, ill-contrived,
I twisted these poor crowns,
will you but deign to wear them,
Hide neath the victor's laurel, this poor wreath –
Clumsy the work, a silly weight to carry,
And yet revile it not, for it is love.[img]https://i.imgur.com/35YoADi.jpg?1[/img]
(translated from the Latin)
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c.1525-1530 – 1569)
Winter Landscape with Ice-skaters and Bird-trap (1565)Bruegel's winter scenes always have ravens in them.
(He was in the first generation of painters not to make
religion the natural subject of painting & never painted portraits-
-from wiki)[img]https://i.imgur.com/xsTKRif.jpg?2[/img]
One Art
Elizabeth BishopThe art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.I lost my mother’s watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn’t a disaster.—Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan’t have lied. It’s evident
the art of losing’s not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.[img]https://i.imgur.com/AIzZx2b.jpg?2[/img]
detail from The Marriage at Cana by Veronese c.1563
The detail of this painting is incredibly clear and the colours just brilliant …
the clothes of the man standing on the right have such fine details.
The painter, Veronese, is the man seated dressed in white with fine
yellow leggings playing the stringed instrument. His master, Titian is sat
next to him playing the bass and dressed in bright red.
The detail of this painting is as clear as a photograph.[img]https://i.imgur.com/ywCKoLV.jpg?1[/img]
the subject of this limrick has no qualms about it's publication
No.9
Sonia went down to Bude
To appear on the stage in the nude
A man in the front
Shouted out cunt !
Just like that, bloody rudeA jazz trio .. remember chatting about trios ?
leave it on, let it playYes! Trio Escalier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XoPmQIenCQ[img]https://i.imgur.com/WycCinJ.jpg?1[/img]
Ali Jackson, Aaron Goldberg, Omer Avital (Drums, Piano, Bass)Mbalaxis is the intricate dance music of Senegal.
Cheik Lo softens the hard edges of Mbalax adding
elements of salsa, Zairean/Congolese rhumba, folk & jazz.
(courtesy of spotify)
Cheikh Lô — Jamm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K63CjCHxy3U[img]https://i.imgur.com/22v9Jpi.jpg?1[/img]
Published with the permission of Corina
who is here expressing herself admirably ![img]https://i.imgur.com/A3gh1wW.jpg?2[/img]
Fatou Diawara Sowa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK680uD7qQI
[img]https://i.imgur.com/R1JakC8.jpg?1[/img]
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