ENDGAME 2020 – DIOLCH THANKSDOROTHEA TANNING, WHO CELEBRATED THE ‘UNGIRDING’ EVENT IN HER OWN UNIQUE WAY IN THIS BRILLIANT PAINTING
Dorothea Tanning Endgame (1944)
“The Queen is represented by the white satin slipper that is literally stomping out the Bishop. The Queen dominates—not the King … It is nice Surrealist trope, because they’re (Dorothea and Ernst) against the traditional family. And you have a trompe l’oeil detail in the corner, as if the chessboard has been ripped open and you have a landscape where the Queens is going to run away to.” – Javier Pes 4 March 2019
‘Blake-Milton’ steps away from us and into his book and its ‘vortex’. His right arm and hand also cut his name in two, suggesting that the route to his inner apocalypse is blocked by a ‘Selfhood’ that must be self-annihilated.’
Ha! Ha! Ha!
” The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when he wrote of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true Poet and of the Devil’s party without knowing it ” – so wrote William Blake in 1868
THAT MANY OF US ENDURE IN THE CULTURE TO WHICH WE WERE BORN – A REAL LESSON IN FORGIVENESS BELIEVE YOU ME.
I arose, and sought for the mill, & there I found my Angel, who surprised, asked me how I escaped? I answer’d: ‘ All that we saw was owing to your metaphysics; for when you ran away, I found myself on a bank by moonlight hearing a harper, But now we have seen my eternal lot, shall I shew you yours?’ he laugh’d at my proposal. So the Angel said: ‘thy phantasy has imposed upon me, & thou oughtest to be ashamed.’ I answer’d: ‘we impose on one another, & it is but lost time to converse with you whose works are only Analytics.’ William Blake
I always assumed until recently that Milton here was strangling ‘God’
One memorable page (Plate 16) shows Milton as he “took off the robe of the promise, & ungirded himself from the oath of God” (15:13):
UNGIRDED! GOOD WORD THAT! 15 AUGUST 2020 FAST OF THE UNGIRDING –
Apocalypse Now was honored with the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, where it premiered unfinished before it was finally released on 15 August 1979 by United Artists.
Robert Duvall still going strong at 89 years of agePoster
Been following this story for many a decade! Shameful.
An interesting link with the iconic ‘Apocalypse Now’ – Taghi Amirani worked with Walter Murch, sound designer on F F Coppola’s masterpiece, and a three time Oscar winner.
Directors Taghi Amirani and Walter Murch speak during the Filmmakers Afternoon Tea at the 63rd BFI London Film Festival at The May Fair Hotel on October 04, 2019 in London, England.
Taghi Amirani
Tomris Laffly writes: The most notable achievement of “Coup 53” is daring the viewer to imagine a different Middle East today — what would have happened had Mosaddegh (whom Amirani sees as a Gandhi-like figure for Iran) not been overthrown? What would a flourishing and fair democracy in the region mean for the future of the Middle East? The world would perhaps have been a different place, Amirani imagines, knowing that mankind will never live in that version of the globe.( 4 September 2019)
Larushka Ivan–Zadeh is Chief Film Critic at Metro, the UK’s most read daily newspaper. She is also a broadcaster who regularly appears across the BBC as well as Sky News.
There were approximately more than 580,000 bombing missions on Laos between 1964 and 1973, that’s one every eight minutes, every day, for NINE YEARS, making it the most bombed country on planet earth.
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The USA dropped over 2 million tons of cluster bombs over Laos —more than all the bombs dropped during WW2 combined.
A wall made from bomb casings in Na Kam Peng, also called Bomb Village, in Laos. (Credit: Peter Langer/Design Pics/Getty Images)Boats made from fuel tanks seen in a village in Laos. Photo credit: Mark WatsonDefused UXO outside a house in Xieng Khouang. Over 30% of the bombs dropped on Laos by the US failed to explode – leaving literally millions of items of ordinance (many of them tiny mine bomblets from cluster bombs) sitting in villages, buried in rice padddies, and scattered over the hillsides. Casualties from UXO are estimated at 12,000 since 1973. A substantial industry in scrap metal has arisen from the abundance of recoverable (but still fused) bombs, both due to its relative lucrativeness (compared with growning rice), and also out of desperation, as thousands of hectares of land has been rendered unfarmable until cleared of UXO. Once defused, much of this war scrap is also put to practical use; cluster bomb casings are used as planters and house stilts, bomb cases for fencing and jettisoned fuel tanks converted into fishing boats. Evidence of this resourcefulness is everywhere in the Plain of Jars region.( Photo from Mark Watson).
The Fugitive Stag 