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).
I HAVE TO IF I WANT TO KEEP UP WITH MY FUGITIVE STAG
Nietzsche’s poem ‘Writing with One’s Feet’ in The Gay Science (Fröhliche Wissenschaft):
Not with my hand alone I write: My foot wants to participate. Firm and free and bold, my feet Run across the field – and sheet.
Joseph Beuys 1977 – “I Think Anyway with the Knee”
In his long narrative, “Milton”, Blake describes how the author of “Paradise Lost” returned from heaven and entered Blake’s foot in the form of a comet. Afterwards, the familiar world of the five senses turned into a shoe. Blake tied the shoe and walked with the Spirit of Poetry to the City of Art.
Milton actually entered Blake’s left tarsus bone!
But Milton entering my foot I saw in the nether/ Regions of the Imagination also all men on Earth,/ And all in Heaven, saw in the nether regions of the Imagination.”
Our Braque de Weimar ‘Stormdancer Bendigeidfran’ (The Blessed, Magnificent’One) with our first born, Shem Llewelyn ap Geraint ap Iorwerth – Shem for short!
“To the despisers of the body will I speak” – Nietzsche
YES! THINKING FLESH!
“Body am I, and soul” – thus speaks the child. And why should one not speak like children? But the awakened and knowing say: body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body. The body is a great reason, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a herd and a shepherd. An instrument of your body is also your little reason, my brother, which you call “spirit”- a little instrument and toy of your great reason. “I,” you say, and are proud of the word. But greater is that in which you do not wish to have faith-your body and its great reason: that does not say “I,” but does “I.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra No 4
Genesis Celtic Lovers Sculpture
Nietzsche regarded the idea of a body-independent soul or spirit as a philosophical, religious and moral-theological error. Accordingly, in a fragment from the summer of 1880, Nietzsche wrote: ‘I have always written my writings with all my body and life: I do not know what “purely spiritual” problems are.’
I had that realization many decades ago – the error that is a ‘purely spiritual ‘ problem. Hence, ‘The Fugitive Stag’ is my whole body … body-soul, soulbody …
The Fugitive Stag 