tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21748972293527417292024-03-17T07:52:04.728-07:00Ransen's BlogUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger218125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174897229352741729.post-1140234819212798602024-03-04T23:33:00.000-08:002024-03-04T23:33:11.219-08:00Martin Amis the agnostic<p> From Wikipedia:<br /></p><h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Agnosticism" style="font-family: georgia;">Martin Amis and Agnosticism</span></h3><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">In
2006, Amis said that "agnostic is the only respectable position, simply
because our ignorance of the universe is so vast" that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism" title="Atheism">atheism</a>
is "premature". Clearly "there's not going to be any kind of
anthropomorphic entity at all", but the universe is "so incredibly
complicated", "so over our heads", that we cannot exclude the existence
of "an intelligence" behind it.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-139"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Amis#cite_note-139">[134]</a></sup></span>
</p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">In 2010, he said: "I'm an agnostic, which is the only rational
position. It's not because I feel a God or think that anything
resembling the banal God of religion will turn up. But I think that
atheism sounds like a proof of something, and it's incredibly evident
that we are nowhere near intelligent enough to understand the universe
... Writers are above all individualists, and above all writing is
freedom, so they will go off in all sorts of directions. I think it does
apply to the debate about religion, in that it's a crabbed novelist who
pulls the shutters down and says, there's no other thing. Don't use the
word God: but something more intelligent than us ... If we can't
understand it, then it's formidable. And we understand very little."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-140"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Amis#cite_note-140">[135]</a></sup></span>
</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174897229352741729.post-15037541214517027752024-02-26T23:55:00.000-08:002024-02-28T08:38:02.654-08:00You can't take it with you<p> Most religions have a way of saying that death is just a passage to another world, another way of being. There's "<i>go beyond the veil"</i>, "<i>pass over"</i> (or the more ridiculous abbreviation "<i>pass</i>"), and "<i>go to a better place</i>" etc. etc. Even some Buddhist meditations on death talk about "<i>not being able to take it with you</i>" (body, possessions etc.), which implies that the dead person is <i>going </i>somewhere.</p><p>The Japanese have two ways of expressing death. shinimasu (<span class="copyable"><ruby><rb>死</rb><rp>(</rp><rp>)</rp></ruby><ruby class="desktop"><rb></rb></ruby>に<ruby class="desktop"><rb></rb></ruby>ま<ruby class="desktop"><rb></rb></ruby>す</span>) and nakunarimasu (<span class="copyable"><ruby><rb>亡</rb><rp>(</rp><rp>)</rp></ruby><ruby class="desktop"><rb></rb></ruby>く<ruby class="desktop"><rb></rb></ruby>な<ruby class="desktop"><rb></rb></ruby>り<ruby class="desktop"><rb></rb></ruby>ま<ruby class="desktop"><rb></rb></ruby>す</span>). This latter seems more real, though it is politer than shinimasu. Nakunarimasu can be interpreted as "to become nothing". Which is a more honest expression of the reality.</p><p>I had a shock after reading <i>Bad Blood</i> by Lorna Sage...</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3za9jlBsJXE5sAphfDwQJQR_4Ys90ct2V0VIUFYqjkiEp9yuSfzmpYHsoWjCrJbe1o0gOPDqlEq42n5G9CygtV7BeL9105epR9ucAHDDGsP47yJgOZSsoTOwnISxxNKzNbcTo5YHy2PjP5vxw2PmAuNXhwvhP93LDlmKQbDPXqzBjhGFSsI5Lj9esp_qg/s500/Lorna_Sage_Bad_Blood.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="324" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3za9jlBsJXE5sAphfDwQJQR_4Ys90ct2V0VIUFYqjkiEp9yuSfzmpYHsoWjCrJbe1o0gOPDqlEq42n5G9CygtV7BeL9105epR9ucAHDDGsP47yJgOZSsoTOwnISxxNKzNbcTo5YHy2PjP5vxw2PmAuNXhwvhP93LDlmKQbDPXqzBjhGFSsI5Lj9esp_qg/s16000/Lorna_Sage_Bad_Blood.jpg" /></a></div>...she had become nothing. The book was so good I looked for more writings by her, but discovered she had died in January 2001 and did not leave any similar works to Bad Blood. I am not interested in literary criticism.<p></p><p>And doesn't Martin Amis look young here?</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbjQdVlpwvb4YPxXM_hyphenhyphenh6yJQ9drGRUWFIlstJlwocfyaRzJ___DgKyDoc1FY7OAkFBLQdFvGSLTYsRuKy4AG69tte7TIn8wSqFoQqLwSWgVnnbl_hMjE-RyIgUnojNecUnWs-47gkMcV-dkKfFhb_pFTEzWuQgWPi51-BRXL80k0mMTGfhlvj15zukDwx/s477/Martin-Amis-The-Information.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="477" data-original-width="324" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbjQdVlpwvb4YPxXM_hyphenhyphenh6yJQ9drGRUWFIlstJlwocfyaRzJ___DgKyDoc1FY7OAkFBLQdFvGSLTYsRuKy4AG69tte7TIn8wSqFoQqLwSWgVnnbl_hMjE-RyIgUnojNecUnWs-47gkMcV-dkKfFhb_pFTEzWuQgWPi51-BRXL80k0mMTGfhlvj15zukDwx/s16000/Martin-Amis-The-Information.jpg" /></a></div><p><br /> It is the photo (1995) on the back of <i>The Information</i> (<a href="https://owenransen.blogspot.com/2024/02/getting-rid-of-books.html" target="_blank">one of the fiction books I won't throw away</a>). But he became nothing in May 2023.</p><p>And Ricky Gervais in Armageddon said that he is not worried about his "legacy" because he'll be dead (have become nothing) and not know anything about it.</p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDkEuGISrJ21z4IjyCKx5wfvpOoMzb0oZSDnb7_EK_Zrw9qGafwcanvmDQU2wSMvBvS28GWWRPF6CTxCZsclZrRdTgX0r_arFrLtb_8MrHnBFVf6f7odcS9TxRyiwoi4KcLUUQbi8fL8PSwtHbmAXKYxzq_E4EvYA6xvIdhd0Zb6LV2xlbspHyIJ_rs-DA/s342/Ricky_Gervais_Armageddon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="192" data-original-width="342" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDkEuGISrJ21z4IjyCKx5wfvpOoMzb0oZSDnb7_EK_Zrw9qGafwcanvmDQU2wSMvBvS28GWWRPF6CTxCZsclZrRdTgX0r_arFrLtb_8MrHnBFVf6f7odcS9TxRyiwoi4KcLUUQbi8fL8PSwtHbmAXKYxzq_E4EvYA6xvIdhd0Zb6LV2xlbspHyIJ_rs-DA/s16000/Ricky_Gervais_Armageddon.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p></p><p>I was listening to Bach's <i>The Art Of Fugue</i>...</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkt8wnMs7JvJLSwf2ej-FdqyL_QeLqGc3mmoQVlRW5wAtLrbK7xzzG3VQGJAq4XK4jpMZifV9TPNhgGnLQTdajqdWnweypZJWzCQzUjgZ9NcaNhX-4BspYlxQO5wmgNEivHmLJPJPsgCpiVAs7PA4cSZl0fCVwByYlnL-KWbquOL0yiRJ2fGtW1zJRb2C1/s324/The-Art-Of-Fugue.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="322" data-original-width="324" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkt8wnMs7JvJLSwf2ej-FdqyL_QeLqGc3mmoQVlRW5wAtLrbK7xzzG3VQGJAq4XK4jpMZifV9TPNhgGnLQTdajqdWnweypZJWzCQzUjgZ9NcaNhX-4BspYlxQO5wmgNEivHmLJPJPsgCpiVAs7PA4cSZl0fCVwByYlnL-KWbquOL0yiRJ2fGtW1zJRb2C1/s16000/The-Art-Of-Fugue.jpg" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p>...and when it suddenly and abruptly came to an end (it is an unfinished work, Bach became nothing) I was reminded that I too will one day become nothing. <a href="https://owenransen.blogspot.com/2022/08/dont-be-idle-now.html" target="_blank">So don't be idle now...</a><br /></p><br /><p> </p><p> <br /> <br /></p><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174897229352741729.post-17950136205830775932024-02-10T01:59:00.000-08:002024-02-26T23:43:59.580-08:00Getting rid of books<p> Too many books, not enough space. And, in the end, how many of the books you own will you ever read again? I've decided to start a cull, the latest victims...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRRbkbVPl8nGsAtjussOu-QE__eJtWOYYELXyAkoWW1rb3WKc-tPxsm4jo0_9oZrMyaObf4JsiIfMxUiuiZSWHdwvMZ29PJkph5LUPTjXgE-omf74J5y5j5Rab6clmX3yB45t0-ZX11QaqGxhdmdHGwfGWpWzXilX6fcTl_YypmknB9a0FetH2XDBgpO3y/s401/A_Mind_To_Murder.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="401" data-original-width="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRRbkbVPl8nGsAtjussOu-QE__eJtWOYYELXyAkoWW1rb3WKc-tPxsm4jo0_9oZrMyaObf4JsiIfMxUiuiZSWHdwvMZ29PJkph5LUPTjXgE-omf74J5y5j5Rab6clmX3yB45t0-ZX11QaqGxhdmdHGwfGWpWzXilX6fcTl_YypmknB9a0FetH2XDBgpO3y/s16000/A_Mind_To_Murder.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG57nQzb7ffDRfXRgc1mtS0RcIE1M19zjqfLFp1Ri1xrc6cQbyqnwGcri-SloGRGW2lpe0ldC_gjVWMpxhSG9pNLtbwoZUtiHdlY7gSIeNFNyRggJELih-TgzrdY_KJirX54HJbW5G_BIGwSG6WdvVVGH3iMWtIQb5_6Bf8oiKXYE9630N5OdDayFg1hwB/s383/A_Study_In_Scarlet.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="383" data-original-width="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG57nQzb7ffDRfXRgc1mtS0RcIE1M19zjqfLFp1Ri1xrc6cQbyqnwGcri-SloGRGW2lpe0ldC_gjVWMpxhSG9pNLtbwoZUtiHdlY7gSIeNFNyRggJELih-TgzrdY_KJirX54HJbW5G_BIGwSG6WdvVVGH3iMWtIQb5_6Bf8oiKXYE9630N5OdDayFg1hwB/s16000/A_Study_In_Scarlet.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtcbJbmPSUsuGHIKYBnn3hpOlItR0DSf9QlPA6tRqSlXbOJGmk_SEnFQtXB6dbR06yLBHQta7STKCzWCdU1SmbRFW0wDMZ1nxgK94jamcmbsbHpaHvi7sE9y21wpt_bQhuMiTRGOsPgY5ZJp-p7Kb4GW9kEHaIu-qxu4Yd-OoJNYi0O6ypfLnRwz7SG_qU/s404/The_Memoirs_Of_Sherlock_Holmes.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="404" data-original-width="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtcbJbmPSUsuGHIKYBnn3hpOlItR0DSf9QlPA6tRqSlXbOJGmk_SEnFQtXB6dbR06yLBHQta7STKCzWCdU1SmbRFW0wDMZ1nxgK94jamcmbsbHpaHvi7sE9y21wpt_bQhuMiTRGOsPgY5ZJp-p7Kb4GW9kEHaIu-qxu4Yd-OoJNYi0O6ypfLnRwz7SG_qU/s16000/The_Memoirs_Of_Sherlock_Holmes.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixtM9JuAbOF95IAEhvmWUqklpIAsWSWLRRG54u_dheBNj4NxYT6OioIpuxWAOk91xM_iU-P97A9Y0_FzxBnNI159MhYowlDy_b8qEUCfe74Q2RvDHPL4agAifTgHtL5IRbkHHLLA6FFHPSbz8CIBuj1wbSRAvfdi7llywoqNdnDNdWmvNpA-Dcv-T5H_eA/s400/The_Old_Curiosity_Shop.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixtM9JuAbOF95IAEhvmWUqklpIAsWSWLRRG54u_dheBNj4NxYT6OioIpuxWAOk91xM_iU-P97A9Y0_FzxBnNI159MhYowlDy_b8qEUCfe74Q2RvDHPL4agAifTgHtL5IRbkHHLLA6FFHPSbz8CIBuj1wbSRAvfdi7llywoqNdnDNdWmvNpA-Dcv-T5H_eA/s16000/The_Old_Curiosity_Shop.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p>Those that have so far survived the cull have done so because <i>they have pictures</i> in them:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56898992-the-devil-s-atlas" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="323" data-original-width="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioRKpytohtCcrfflRDSTRcxF2oMzD1Za_7s_fEWNmHKQbFanJWHSx5uxJQzkKxWysW87vbErAqEMSjCxOZCjuvhIjHzP4UxIFlHpQkUiqMhvwj4ikPOrp0aftNp-xznCYQg4kWV0eKejwMo9oPUrlOMEubJfN4adLh3NJtOGnl0JUNz82oUdnhisFCeCWW/s16000/To_Keep_5.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-phantom-atlas-review-maps-with-gaps-1522960010" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="312" data-original-width="248" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjStHpZ-aWD3n-mcV__Yayo77D9krhJlLsswnB4NalVa6ZEt4muWQOSKgNLmqACxo6lhZh7RxHAfmWz4WTjk1NUw132STaRDrv1sm4Qn1y1wB_ILYCjTtEJHQVXUVCDbk3WT4ReM0PkjeSMQRZ6BNP9ecwFXl9bPOL_z8cWcpLjVgfR4P3Yj-nTUF55-tu2/s1600/To_Keep_1.jpg" width="248" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Lives_of_Colour" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="377" data-original-width="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8xdrbgAjH73DM4GJTae-VpRl_L4Gjs_s5m7Vk4DPjfCUpgIy78q3XdUin8Uq6ooM2xHT78JQHACnkXifcLpqYmYXyDrKtKAPtfOhzxT5EHWtRu1Q1EkrvU1wGuJHTx57dOc4d1g16cWwu-Qe7ohq-26HhV2O1HbyijiaLIW8K4rAODdlbQ-Beq2iYvgeU/s16000/To_Keep_4.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/why-astrologers-were-the-original-data-scientists/2020/02/20/058b21ba-478d-11ea-ab15-b5df3261b710_story.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="355" data-original-width="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8N71wJIpTWX7GOFpL8z-e0eBLSeLQOjxSq7Z4kdwGYDT-PL1ZSVydCs9jfg4MEQKsoHnXPfDLYYzfhvX3TBwX8mM9AUZX_yJyWEpO0KSgH-e7GtUb8iS1YytIsvUTdXQRcmGK8iHkeDvO_Dr-mChJqop_CxbkJiXap67L18dbxVWoTcRfLJFKbpRIOe29/s16000/To_Keep_2.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://fonsweer.blogspot.com/2024/02/wednesday-3rd-july-1935-where-is-my.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="358" data-original-width="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZs0Qw02hJjAS87XBNjANgxh0Cw89z2N-8DDc4_SoZPe7MrX3fL4Pd6NRbEfU56rpD3bkQt4z-8GVK6k3FUole_E2ANkHDByZzGPC_nbCQl0_mkm6vjxKDbEx_xYLF4yA8VTIOItuF3t2zCDPNmkHqVQSbAwVMvAwiBmOh0hSQCKIRy5MnyNClKO6KudG8/s16000/To_Keep_3.jpg" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://goodreads.com/book/show/225313.Leonora_Carrington" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="285" data-original-width="248" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiagWp7fvP4F32Nvjj72u7PXhLRqc-qOhdaO5Ba3yamSgl0-RydC0ZLMzxZWSdNakvTxs9J1JJl_0uxW6s9o8nebRRikdSP8lbZEEG90t4tHRuVGsEdMhyphenhyphenntyyvHF3yzMA3hB9cKgwuye6vTLci0jiO2pkBiipPh_LV3wXaeujLgcks2Y4o92AqP0YNY2x4/s1600/To_Keep_6.jpg" width="248" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: left;"> Though there are some fiction books I'll never get rid of, multiple reads always give pleasure...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPd48Xhhu1mYOcPvD1yQkd4zFvpkICmby6ilRfX42Yf0OS_UdsyYqLccEZOYyRPbuHgN9M5oBe9_JvfKKcTSi7D9E3EM1OfFbiAEjYqcipKLFMMemC0dcaS9OQr0PnWZoWSd76PTulQX_hktTXVEU4-jh9QuIsFoU4Ez7n_2pKEe1QgHVeSrIp1G6wMcQ3/s381/Tom-Wolfe-The-Bonfire-Of-The-Vanities.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="381" data-original-width="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPd48Xhhu1mYOcPvD1yQkd4zFvpkICmby6ilRfX42Yf0OS_UdsyYqLccEZOYyRPbuHgN9M5oBe9_JvfKKcTSi7D9E3EM1OfFbiAEjYqcipKLFMMemC0dcaS9OQr0PnWZoWSd76PTulQX_hktTXVEU4-jh9QuIsFoU4Ez7n_2pKEe1QgHVeSrIp1G6wMcQ3/s16000/Tom-Wolfe-The-Bonfire-Of-The-Vanities.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: large;"> Settembre 1997, Biennale di Venezia, Unimplosive Art<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj72yjWXKbWifdMFS9BpFk0_g86cSg7w0MsxFi3kzO67fNHQC-LPKIhzvO103FvLVmiBdnMZEWHXa2BSoU5O-fwk9pOKjZHBnSyJw7drfhc6kumaaCffDw-1dWl6ugwx93GgYl_3Qj_gDd45C4v9arKsSRr9erDpWQRe-NNKjxR4Q6RyUOE9lBpMFvRyu8d/s1228/Ransen-Sleepy-Clock-Biennale-di-Venezia.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1228" data-original-width="786" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj72yjWXKbWifdMFS9BpFk0_g86cSg7w0MsxFi3kzO67fNHQC-LPKIhzvO103FvLVmiBdnMZEWHXa2BSoU5O-fwk9pOKjZHBnSyJw7drfhc6kumaaCffDw-1dWl6ugwx93GgYl_3Qj_gDd45C4v9arKsSRr9erDpWQRe-NNKjxR4Q6RyUOE9lBpMFvRyu8d/s16000/Ransen-Sleepy-Clock-Biennale-di-Venezia.png" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; 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font-size: small;"> </span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;">6 quadri, 12 immagini...</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiovnf3ktqtkyR7U_hNBBtdt8cmU-H5ipKY2gVtxZ37MkM1TtjvNT4xXbG2BGjd0Wl2EzLp89d8jcuRy1kMrKhjbaYRivAMHQWtez7cuWChpbZs7_ebUigIUSSoNGs-UKW8XGY7le0RU8QZfmVOEibjykH7nOEveXV-bi1jNMz1Vbxtir0KUcnb-pCS8cI2/s786/Ransen-2-side-images-exhibition-2009.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="380" data-original-width="786" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiovnf3ktqtkyR7U_hNBBtdt8cmU-H5ipKY2gVtxZ37MkM1TtjvNT4xXbG2BGjd0Wl2EzLp89d8jcuRy1kMrKhjbaYRivAMHQWtez7cuWChpbZs7_ebUigIUSSoNGs-UKW8XGY7le0RU8QZfmVOEibjykH7nOEveXV-bi1jNMz1Vbxtir0KUcnb-pCS8cI2/s16000/Ransen-2-side-images-exhibition-2009.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="HwtZe" lang="it"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">Le stesse opere da diversi punti di vista</span></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: large;"><br /> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Ottobre 2010, con Silvia Menuzzi, Spazio Zero, Gallarate.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHxfG6HdOxqolFL9ZXjGdh21gUg0SQBErqPKtYmUrJ5hZXvu6HXASCpTqMgUxIF3OJatRT7f2tOPgulcfROL1OshAaL2WcYk09PYGSI5qYMJY9-1ZI_5XnBWr1FujZYk9TKkgpjt6z7xyijB3OnFrys114zPaUtO7kPGcg3b_ImlupYdHt1J93B48WNbnp/s786/Mostra-Owen-Ransen-Silvia-Menuzzi-Spazio-Zero-ottobre-2010-B.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="762" data-original-width="786" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHxfG6HdOxqolFL9ZXjGdh21gUg0SQBErqPKtYmUrJ5hZXvu6HXASCpTqMgUxIF3OJatRT7f2tOPgulcfROL1OshAaL2WcYk09PYGSI5qYMJY9-1ZI_5XnBWr1FujZYk9TKkgpjt6z7xyijB3OnFrys114zPaUtO7kPGcg3b_ImlupYdHt1J93B48WNbnp/s16000/Mostra-Owen-Ransen-Silvia-Menuzzi-Spazio-Zero-ottobre-2010-B.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="HwtZe" lang="it" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tu-tqlAj_4" target="_blank">Video delle sculture (1)</a> </span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="HwtZe" lang="it" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8gLxXLhpSw" target="_blank">Video delle sculture (2) </a></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="HwtZe" lang="it" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb"><a href="https://owenransen.blogspot.com/2020/12/drawings-2020.html">Disegni 2020</a> <br /></span></span></span></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174897229352741729.post-51290668432503590652024-01-25T05:55:00.000-08:002024-01-25T07:41:09.853-08:00Verifone still the worst customer support in the world<p> </p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1OcuXPjxvjd3cYNi3z3VBWlU-quLoQdwYYMO6TyVeM60P6mtH_pau6I8s6KNAPTPfP73YaDNktCb8cu1KCaumuAZmYaI_qjkZ9paESb2iNzeGg4T42RrF2XemWYtUIQjVPhxivMIVd47PMV-zsN-pDPFU62BKJKJZuYvzJ2WQqOYIHTuUhqh6XJOUQlLm/s1000/V2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="283" data-original-width="1000" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1OcuXPjxvjd3cYNi3z3VBWlU-quLoQdwYYMO6TyVeM60P6mtH_pau6I8s6KNAPTPfP73YaDNktCb8cu1KCaumuAZmYaI_qjkZ9paESb2iNzeGg4T42RrF2XemWYtUIQjVPhxivMIVd47PMV-zsN-pDPFU62BKJKJZuYvzJ2WQqOYIHTuUhqh6XJOUQlLm/s16000/V2.jpg" /></a></div><br />I
sell software on line. Avangate was my credit card handler. It was
bought by 2 CheckOut and then Verifone, <a href="https://ransenstechstuff.blogspot.com/2022/01/verifone-worlds-worst-customer-service.html" target="_blank">who spent months ignoring my requests for support more than a year ago</a>.<p></p><p>Now they are at it <b>again</b>.
I realised that they had stopped sending me emails with every order I
got. I contacted support, no reply. I contacted support again, no reply.
I must say though that I got this email three times:</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9R3QmnQ157QtCj_wGHyqPcB8ItRQD2kvzt9U4wZwR8YIzVFlCjJkuq3L2f_QPAbd2xhZRuFUYDKR6ZSymh2B2WSmIIB_lX7mLTBujCX8riKMC2AheGNFi8t4-PKT8XG2VDy6zpBp7kcLLHSTCW-1UUTNq28ZFtWrrnbFRUcvdC_CdG2av92pMh69YZYz9/s1082/Your-feedback.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="813" data-original-width="1082" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9R3QmnQ157QtCj_wGHyqPcB8ItRQD2kvzt9U4wZwR8YIzVFlCjJkuq3L2f_QPAbd2xhZRuFUYDKR6ZSymh2B2WSmIIB_lX7mLTBujCX8riKMC2AheGNFi8t4-PKT8XG2VDy6zpBp7kcLLHSTCW-1UUTNq28ZFtWrrnbFRUcvdC_CdG2av92pMh69YZYz9/s16000/Your-feedback.jpg" /></a></div><p><br />So they are unable to resolve problems or email me with help but they are able to send surveys. <br /></p><p></p><p>My reply was this:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipfntYSrI831WEJiSU9wVhcqPqHH9YjsmTB6OLLnsHDyZkgZ-FS5JrkghIrukqd4hsxW-PwplYOVnsOk_LTDumKnnvi5kuvRhWdHHsxD3t7TzFAXNJiQwmxcnubzVb269uY9cJE67IV_3r9o7S8yMUyTigymsDrkktQ5kVOr57XGZI6RJEbOXgiJEir0SE/s979/reply.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="736" data-original-width="979" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipfntYSrI831WEJiSU9wVhcqPqHH9YjsmTB6OLLnsHDyZkgZ-FS5JrkghIrukqd4hsxW-PwplYOVnsOk_LTDumKnnvi5kuvRhWdHHsxD3t7TzFAXNJiQwmxcnubzVb269uY9cJE67IV_3r9o7S8yMUyTigymsDrkktQ5kVOr57XGZI6RJEbOXgiJEir0SE/s16000/reply.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p>And while Verifone are not able to offer support Verifone are able to chastize you about not replying to their non existent emails:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXzGshF0dNqSbMa9cPpDq7Wx8kt5fS6i2rzBDUpycfzq6Y3jlRjm6eG2VEsXdtkrewK-bMG8X6pmKGNISBBdt73GJrFSj-9cgOylsdH4I0CxzV-gdnzMZzA5D1DmcTbKttLMqcAiEgIp8OBS61WMbdxuCNqej7zEqY8eMRgV1q4GtDM21YXrOQGKocHFDb/s1010/cheek.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="372" data-original-width="1010" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXzGshF0dNqSbMa9cPpDq7Wx8kt5fS6i2rzBDUpycfzq6Y3jlRjm6eG2VEsXdtkrewK-bMG8X6pmKGNISBBdt73GJrFSj-9cgOylsdH4I0CxzV-gdnzMZzA5D1DmcTbKttLMqcAiEgIp8OBS61WMbdxuCNqej7zEqY8eMRgV1q4GtDM21YXrOQGKocHFDb/s16000/cheek.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174897229352741729.post-83112021813501296022023-07-04T09:15:00.011-07:002023-07-04T09:46:04.263-07:00Can a machine read my mind?<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The program <span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csz1tx" target="_blank">Can a machine read my mind?</a> confirmed my opinion that concepts are above, at a higher level, than language.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: normal;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFZsRiRJrOiLfOwhD-JkY_qLY76CL12s9CqveqfddmaRZ8Qi6iUV9vW7tXkBByl9hyrgoxej_-64GXVYo4ANyReX3wJZC2SWVFlrEKwEipwtOwyI03D7vaNL3RTQAentPXl9_u5w9Tdw8jMu3vL8FtmDVEWeKDW633bXxl_iVVfSBgM8I29eJGVnF6viWT/s640/Can-a-machine-read-my-mind.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFZsRiRJrOiLfOwhD-JkY_qLY76CL12s9CqveqfddmaRZ8Qi6iUV9vW7tXkBByl9hyrgoxej_-64GXVYo4ANyReX3wJZC2SWVFlrEKwEipwtOwyI03D7vaNL3RTQAentPXl9_u5w9Tdw8jMu3vL8FtmDVEWeKDW633bXxl_iVVfSBgM8I29eJGVnF6viWT/s16000/Can-a-machine-read-my-mind.jpg" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: normal;"><br /> In the program <a href="https://sites.pitt.edu/~nminshew/just.html" target="_blank">Marcel Just</a> explains that there is a universal language of the brain, and concepts are stored identically in brains which use different languages. He gave the example of "An old man throws a stone into a lake." That idea activated the same areas of the brain in people who spoke different languages.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: normal;">And this is just the beginning.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: normal;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;">See also <a href="https://owenransen.blogspot.com/2014/12/concepts-before-language.html" target="_blank">Concepts before Language</a>. <br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174897229352741729.post-20182135210898372202023-06-29T07:48:00.001-07:002023-06-29T07:48:22.598-07:00More great audio stuff to listen to<p> There is a ton of podcast/audio dross out there, so be guided by me, search out these programs:</p><p><a href="https://www.npr.org/podcasts/381444775/k-c-r-w-s-the-business" target="_blank">KCRW's The Business</a> is about the movie business, mainly in the US, with comments on Hollywood news and interviews with key artists/producers etc. Always interesting:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji67q4REa4eE0aFXhqc6XlMf14Pxy3s1xvXT9y0oLoWQpIzwt6q029u4m_MKa4AAWE0BLQ_IqAbU6YBJEfvQV1D5Ki0KrNMeq-arzNDmKN-tFzZSY1zoSA30uCU-SRcMytYVv-gUuTZ0Z6UrQ6K60TI8VmvEGAlAZKRZQGxcUo05hgs63rE1bXVLW-8gQW/s640/KCRW_The_Business.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="261" data-original-width="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji67q4REa4eE0aFXhqc6XlMf14Pxy3s1xvXT9y0oLoWQpIzwt6q029u4m_MKa4AAWE0BLQ_IqAbU6YBJEfvQV1D5Ki0KrNMeq-arzNDmKN-tFzZSY1zoSA30uCU-SRcMytYVv-gUuTZ0Z6UrQ6K60TI8VmvEGAlAZKRZQGxcUo05hgs63rE1bXVLW-8gQW/s16000/KCRW_The_Business.png" /></a></div><p></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0frw494" target="_blank">Call Jonathan Pie</a>, a BBC podcast, a comedy which uses extremely bad language, is sometimes politically incorrect, and very funny:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikrjR5_CiH8xwUMAqcBCYTZZ0OHvgMz8Ou7LLsClGXZeGV1-47wWTo_jjXDcH6xF9tFsoBZCEVsvAN4Ig5VzUUjnnMUpW0e_jT9ZyuXpqm5lajwSgGlC1sM3PXWpH9_63EuZ-5SjhByTdCggy1LeTVZfvTMJtCyV_J1Hkhmum81c9Ap51pLgaQxZkeKVQ6/s640/call-jonathan-pie.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikrjR5_CiH8xwUMAqcBCYTZZ0OHvgMz8Ou7LLsClGXZeGV1-47wWTo_jjXDcH6xF9tFsoBZCEVsvAN4Ig5VzUUjnnMUpW0e_jT9ZyuXpqm5lajwSgGlC1sM3PXWpH9_63EuZ-5SjhByTdCggy1LeTVZfvTMJtCyV_J1Hkhmum81c9Ap51pLgaQxZkeKVQ6/s16000/call-jonathan-pie.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p> </p><p>The <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08p6rn4" target="_blank">Beef And Dairy Network</a> a BBC comedy podcast. I have to admit that the first time I listened to it I did not "get it." Impossible to describe, so just give it a couple of episodes before deciding if you like it or not.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG0oyPppuQAVSZxNJW2fe9R9e4m6qXwPAZdBD24IHOuXfFz_cjjedWeqg4DpFeLWpfwEo0GDsA8DNpamPDFh48-0ZucFoL4e2kpkI7MGqVnMzwqZfAGO_LTwzu3ioUcGygrO53vnXs0a_LzmcoC8WgNt1_7zqpvyR1029VEODGUY451I_mP8OLhpy-IfzZ/s480/Beef-and-dairy-network.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG0oyPppuQAVSZxNJW2fe9R9e4m6qXwPAZdBD24IHOuXfFz_cjjedWeqg4DpFeLWpfwEo0GDsA8DNpamPDFh48-0ZucFoL4e2kpkI7MGqVnMzwqZfAGO_LTwzu3ioUcGygrO53vnXs0a_LzmcoC8WgNt1_7zqpvyR1029VEODGUY451I_mP8OLhpy-IfzZ/s16000/Beef-and-dairy-network.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p> </p><p>Last and not least <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07dx75g">The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry</a> , a science podcast which is actually fun. Wonderful.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTtA_iA-Air8_pZe50gxTuQpJ8B68lF8v9k_oSsAoLKJbtU2D35rEz-NNPZOij43Xs4rMYnSVVIN2O5U4XsqKk2FQSFmaJM2IAY3pRaJ0jmzofx7FLYagnzMaSz02tw9KxaH51KgYZV6OXiPtSHtHKq4DuPU3nwIvMrP-wOFuDk1pZ9ueIO2XYQlry425J/s640/Rutherford-fry.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTtA_iA-Air8_pZe50gxTuQpJ8B68lF8v9k_oSsAoLKJbtU2D35rEz-NNPZOij43Xs4rMYnSVVIN2O5U4XsqKk2FQSFmaJM2IAY3pRaJ0jmzofx7FLYagnzMaSz02tw9KxaH51KgYZV6OXiPtSHtHKq4DuPU3nwIvMrP-wOFuDk1pZ9ueIO2XYQlry425J/s16000/Rutherford-fry.jpg" /></a></div><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174897229352741729.post-53196501892694890752023-06-03T00:30:00.007-07:002023-06-03T23:52:13.335-07:00Odd bloke that Kandinsky<p> I read <i>On The Spiritual in Art</i>, by Kandinsky interested to see what he meant. He was the first famous abstract painter and I do like his paintings.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfa06zSzrANWncuSnv90MDalRUsnVp-IZSh64UXZjEZiomqw5iU-jg67RICATDYZ9aicG8yWfNqjN1EwdOib1HTka198Ya_Msh-tBRKhO4674DnEBziZrUayzmVI53j3NahXGjvzDdysZ-cJxUEruCvDSKLklTJ-8qG3F2LCFqVRNZUs-W2KtELYnFmA/s641/White-Kandinsky.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="641" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfa06zSzrANWncuSnv90MDalRUsnVp-IZSh64UXZjEZiomqw5iU-jg67RICATDYZ9aicG8yWfNqjN1EwdOib1HTka198Ya_Msh-tBRKhO4674DnEBziZrUayzmVI53j3NahXGjvzDdysZ-cJxUEruCvDSKLklTJ-8qG3F2LCFqVRNZUs-W2KtELYnFmA/s16000/White-Kandinsky.jpg" /></a></div><br /> The book is as odd as he is. He says (and I agree with him, 100 years later) that: <br /><p></p><p>"<i>The observer these days is incapable of emotion when looking at a work of art. The observer looks for objective reality or interpretation. Thus the observer misses the whole point.</i>"</p><p> Elsewhere in the book though he goes into <i>mechanical </i>detail of how to construct colors and images to have this emotional effect. Here is a small selection:</p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><i>Black mixed with any other color evokes tragedy</i>. (Does it? Really?)<br /></li><li><i>Green contains yellow and blue as paralyzed forces which can be reactivated.</i> (Here he shows he does not understand light mixing.)</li><li><i>Blue evokes the infinite.</i> (That seems true if you only think of skies. But why not black as well? A dark night sky full of stars for example)</li><li><i>Yellow never contains a profound meaning.</i> (A bit of an arbitrary statement that Wassily)</li><li><i>A triangle directed upwards has a quieter, more steadfast, stable appeal than the same triangle set obliquely on it's side.</i> (Hmm. Maybe)<br /></li><li><i>Sharp colours sound stronger in sharp forms (for example, yellow in a triangle)</i>. (Should road sign designers follow these sort of ideas? Do they already? )<br /></li></ul><p> All the above sounds to me mechanical and sometimes arbitrary. He thinks the effects he describes are universal for all humanity, ignoring cultural differences. He also was a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theosophy" target="_blank">Theosophist</a>, following Madam Blavatsky.</p><p>And that complaint about modern viewers not responding with emotion....so why does he tell us that all that stuff about colors? We now "know" how to "interpret" his paintings, with or without emotion.<br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174897229352741729.post-4138687819771941412023-04-01T05:56:00.008-07:002023-04-03T09:50:50.103-07:00Untitled<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioJRAkPUMRozeKsL8tFuDL8sfErB45K9W8T5p3NzcKcuadCcIwtIE1mGiBM_Sdxye1MOCLPWNithxVo6ewv2xnNpeuO30C9GsadTRZ-uqapuSBs91WYVcafDBrHZ8m6nKnVvDADDye6fX4waTRm5uuf9EmDJeYNkjR9vm04zd7MD5dO3kCDFPV_UIrQQ/s750/Owen_Ransen_2023-B.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="531" data-original-width="750" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioJRAkPUMRozeKsL8tFuDL8sfErB45K9W8T5p3NzcKcuadCcIwtIE1mGiBM_Sdxye1MOCLPWNithxVo6ewv2xnNpeuO30C9GsadTRZ-uqapuSBs91WYVcafDBrHZ8m6nKnVvDADDye6fX4waTRm5uuf9EmDJeYNkjR9vm04zd7MD5dO3kCDFPV_UIrQQ/s16000/Owen_Ransen_2023-B.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="740" data-original-width="660" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje0kNA94V6yZR5JlPIq8uw-x5TK_bs165WxWh1RPfLlpwX3kkPtpT36sD0VeX5bOR0azkErWmEucJ4IaEhHW-eiuIwxPRaizCzs98b-CyNuYze9hJTxNYa_DJSAVW7lTwlAB4RS1VBTpLa2Y5v-kMQglmDB29LHtq09kRYVmKK-YKiFpxWo3XJ3Tc78w/s16000/Radio-Incarnathan.png" /></a></div><p></p><p>If you are interested in film history here's one for you:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyevHiJ1C8ghq93uTfvUkkrfddCRAEd2FBcQYSFgaMSPWT39Izhs77GcB4SYF-8EmBszFFDiCN-dM9M77JAQ7cdfYHn9fWin6BS5G6r1DCuBEHvVN5K9JRaILiet8FPmVyNkysF1mcHfUv4La-M9jWwRrlxpYVNIM7pYlU_P_mE9gILLFr2PF1QtFe1A/s705/Radio-Benny-And-Hitch.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="705" data-original-width="665" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyevHiJ1C8ghq93uTfvUkkrfddCRAEd2FBcQYSFgaMSPWT39Izhs77GcB4SYF-8EmBszFFDiCN-dM9M77JAQ7cdfYHn9fWin6BS5G6r1DCuBEHvVN5K9JRaILiet8FPmVyNkysF1mcHfUv4La-M9jWwRrlxpYVNIM7pYlU_P_mE9gILLFr2PF1QtFe1A/s16000/Radio-Benny-And-Hitch.png" /></a></div><p></p><p>Even if you are not interested in classical music, Mozart in particular, this is a good play:<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Each story told by a different aspiring star:<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrz_RStaMHnsTBFPE9w6NszhLxyXFCUjaxH_3JRdKtdQ3xVyFATmfnUuta7rUlIFf2_SM1B8OxNSdmdh-AU_XCUxf4IWp8QUysHmgSFNL3NHK2yyuDYjrUs_7-aepHqx74j7cj53_5yL0pQE_-yv_Hx2AuNdPqR5ePK6YdBDDR_TvGiKCjolfxxhXITg/s981/Radio-The-Circus.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="716" data-original-width="981" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrz_RStaMHnsTBFPE9w6NszhLxyXFCUjaxH_3JRdKtdQ3xVyFATmfnUuta7rUlIFf2_SM1B8OxNSdmdh-AU_XCUxf4IWp8QUysHmgSFNL3NHK2yyuDYjrUs_7-aepHqx74j7cj53_5yL0pQE_-yv_Hx2AuNdPqR5ePK6YdBDDR_TvGiKCjolfxxhXITg/s16000/Radio-The-Circus.png" /></a></div><p></p><p>An interesting adaption of a book in 10 short episodes<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDxQxiJK6f6h-c5u_J942fHtQI6vTjrZ_yzys4MPbE7NtJCPZuxH5yKFlP5UiNhx7T6HeoxcCRL_-OKyM023wPiXvW1ZCsaYpAf61A1ZHSE5qHSHs8Uia92oo5Ea0ynYT7KV1GT-yx6So0clY30bX2Yl0VUXe5Q6hYQJmA8hCHyLZ2-Q_Yvgsfio06zg/s1003/Radio-Lessons-In-Chemistry.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="295" data-original-width="1000" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQAazM2UQ12AiEv3hlVrfAvt5BfT2erR2NyUnBTVZe3IyBsiz0S8ic39pR7FAskrnqEoAVEupkScHG4wfkIG3HWumf5T1zqyeJwUzbhlt40wqctDMDPkG691qAvlQp7-vaTc2T3ArFDPl-FvA2Axvle6aeOOz4gBmd4wcSNf5kQcBoDJ490Nh_Vx5ozw/s16000/Mostra-7.jpg" /></a></div>...and the opening is always the best part. <p></p><p>Then there are the <a href="https://owenransen.blogspot.com/2022/12/potential-visitors-passing-by.html">days of emptiness</a>!</p><p>(There are two YouTube videos of one part of the exhibition, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tu-tqlAj_4">Video 1</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8gLxXLhpSw">Video 2</a>.)</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p></p><p><br /></p><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174897229352741729.post-56172224620496619142022-12-15T09:11:00.009-08:002022-12-31T08:16:34.042-08:00Potential Visitors Passing By<p> After the <a href="https://owenransen.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-opening-of-exhibition-is-always.html">opening of an exhibition</a> I've done enough exhibitions to know that much of the time is spent watching people walking passed the entrance.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://www.atelierferioli.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="177" data-original-width="497" height="114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV6VBfxpPR7kaYmtIKERN24oUqgwlmcDw_Pa0L_6j7LzC6OEnrQcT-V6PcbLtrPQKpOqjVTEFJintM0-VFbduoGCZJah81ZcBzEtmofKr2CHsBi_v8Gqw9jsByoN6GaoeyuZRf2EzEY4vsFVSLt1ZHufX2cKqfRQ9iIsS0syDWsT2Mn-oLOd_QII7GHw/w320-h114/Atelier_Ferioli.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Piazza+S.+Magno,+3,+20025+Legnano+MI/@45.5948322,8.9182263,"><span style="color: #01ffff;">Mappa: Atelier Ferioli, Piazza San Magno 3 , Legnano</span></a></span> <br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj38o_OD8FzezNfqu9naKZMEgq-pgHNXdq7dZZuHpR6dua_rjpZtKsxFE0bzfMQetEH7oGI8iwGJBj4BzGWgcMHhmU6NVfsNnCY1QssLWqazc2mmFU2l9T2VnV2TgSAnFhMpLhP4rXJq1ZC97CuWyRJxP32XTsR9pJcQR1NfLhV8Y7AWEWRUKbOxifEsw/s1441/Pura_Vanita_Owen_Ransen_Legnano.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="980" data-original-width="1441" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj38o_OD8FzezNfqu9naKZMEgq-pgHNXdq7dZZuHpR6dua_rjpZtKsxFE0bzfMQetEH7oGI8iwGJBj4BzGWgcMHhmU6NVfsNnCY1QssLWqazc2mmFU2l9T2VnV2TgSAnFhMpLhP4rXJq1ZC97CuWyRJxP32XTsR9pJcQR1NfLhV8Y7AWEWRUKbOxifEsw/s16000/Pura_Vanita_Owen_Ransen_Legnano.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5vfNctLTz1sgiHhM41PTMfrf2g35IWCtTLvnpADpsEpIxCrgmNQyHvtHza-kctPIH7-vbq41T-EC_fL8fq6xdozChD2qM1f2TDVSyVT-rATVmoYy-7nJl6e0fxDn-XK3Zx07TYBziLl_TB2htVXYzMsoj2hsAY39CnZr6uxrcKXS8iKwwxO7e-4JtDg/s1198/Poster_Pura_Vanita_Owen_Ransen_Legnano.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1198" data-original-width="900" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5vfNctLTz1sgiHhM41PTMfrf2g35IWCtTLvnpADpsEpIxCrgmNQyHvtHza-kctPIH7-vbq41T-EC_fL8fq6xdozChD2qM1f2TDVSyVT-rATVmoYy-7nJl6e0fxDn-XK3Zx07TYBziLl_TB2htVXYzMsoj2hsAY39CnZr6uxrcKXS8iKwwxO7e-4JtDg/s16000/Poster_Pura_Vanita_Owen_Ransen_Legnano.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ransensoftware.com/Deplian-Vanita-Pura.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://Deplian-Vanita-Pura.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Deplian (PDF):</span></a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1202" data-original-width="900" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRX4T2qxPlkbAwo5BTsBWLyqmRzdnRWdBoP2xnJWjqlYKxAJxCuU2n2LT23JV3D1OlQfA7pNJ5Yy0sCYR7jL4QqWUE86_2cdGe9JCsk8HbWSTbgORSKNk-ICNtA7sXvEUIPr_CLtHteqAcSmYPaPNDf9_9yaM5L7ZxqSmMuIdl4qlbZKBALCnlTkXM6Q/s16000/Vanita-another-look.jpg" /></a></div><br /></span></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8gLxXLhpSw">You Tube</a></span><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174897229352741729.post-28736208051660629822022-10-29T23:17:00.018-07:002022-11-05T23:07:09.899-07:00The Museum Of Bad Art (MOBA) has no abstract works<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://museumofbadart.org/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="100" data-original-width="333" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXUF57B-gF8lUcTHqZSQv-WqlA67F8bPqoUF2MYKJ2tRdcZg6eqba6nskmDYvEN_5DJh0mwI2Ev6-dedet3Ua4Ybh30fE__xP-JhOxXSLbyfvVAUncia-RyZBr84vHthRjeXWr9a55y3xlDxdVpKm9j7UvpzBcwxX9l2IeUfwVo4Gfg3QqMbGjoP5A6Q/s16000/Museum-Of-Bad-Art-MOBA.gif" /></a></div><p><br /> The <a href="http://museumofbadart.org/" target="_blank">Museum Of Bad Art</a> (MOBA) has no abstract works. Could this be because it is impossible to tell if an abstract work is any good or not?</p><p> The abstract artist makes you "work hard", and after you have worked hard the only thing which remains are meaningless words like dirty dust in your mouth. You start coughing in unbelief.</p><br /><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174897229352741729.post-33752434953444338992022-10-29T23:11:00.001-07:002022-10-29T23:11:46.835-07:00I'm beginning to see ghosts<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> I'm beginning to see ghosts. Not often, only sometimes. They usually appear during the day. A man or woman standing nearby listing to the conversation I'm having with a human or animal. They are like standing up shadows, or dark slowly moving sculptures. I turn to look and they are gone. They are neither menacing nor friendly, just <i>slightly</i> disquieting. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Years ago I heard a doctor talking about an oldish woman who kept seeing the Manchester United football team in her kitchen. She asked the doctor if she was going mad. He knew she had problems with her eyes, and knew she was sane and intelligent, and so gave this explanation: "The brain, when not getting all the data it needs, will invent things, dragging from memory images which might possibly fit the poor data from old eyes and/or in poorly lit rooms."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">So it is an interesting phenomenon, and that is all.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(But <i>who </i>are they, and <i>what do they want</i> with me?)</span><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174897229352741729.post-54665541942703804922022-10-29T23:00:00.000-07:002022-10-29T23:00:17.424-07:00Malicious Guiding Rainbows<p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I had a trick for falling asleep when I woke at 2:30 am as I often do. I would set myself a destination and would, <i>in my imagination</i>, drive from my place to a friends house, or a shop or where I work. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">So I'd pass the green grassy area where dog walkers went, then under the railway bridge in Canegrate, passed Marylin's Bar, down the hill towards San Vittore Olona. I usually fell asleep before I got to my destination. <br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">For a few months it worked, and then I noticed rainbows appearing in the middle of the road. Longways, as if guiding me. Pretty things, but unreal. A month or so after the rainbows came colorful flat irregular polygons floating around and inside the buildings I'd been using as markers. Like huge panes of colored glass rotating in space, o hovering above gardens. Sometimes like ghosts they could enter into the buildings as if they were just a strange sort of light.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">These polygons did not seem less friendly. And now I wonder if the guiding rainbows were really my friends.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">So I no longer use that technique to fall asleep. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">(It was tempting to try to create and image of what I've described here, but I think your imagination can do a much better job.)</span></span></p><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174897229352741729.post-17044286104058488782022-08-28T04:42:00.011-07:002022-09-18T21:59:10.001-07:00Don't be idle now<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> – Anthony Burgess.</span></p><p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR3ixwHLlHe4vsnBa4CdRmquuEpFz_ZS8Clr9IjpbeO-EhdnrZplNUEDb8D2Q3no8iJZjYu1qebKZWXcwLd-qe-our116kISiKp6PS65OACxvUhOpebc00-g68PM-MofMBnJDmXslQQwydMgTNwa5AtrhsPg_HYVgVtkrjuLRiQ47QqODmuQb6p5xkFQ/s926/Don't-be-idle-now.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="926" data-original-width="909" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR3ixwHLlHe4vsnBa4CdRmquuEpFz_ZS8Clr9IjpbeO-EhdnrZplNUEDb8D2Q3no8iJZjYu1qebKZWXcwLd-qe-our116kISiKp6PS65OACxvUhOpebc00-g68PM-MofMBnJDmXslQQwydMgTNwa5AtrhsPg_HYVgVtkrjuLRiQ47QqODmuQb6p5xkFQ/s16000/Don't-be-idle-now.png" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj50wttGzP4mU-jDRM5wMubwSWqKsXISJIGVwiZYepZiyB6DeZOyPJ1oty8cpnhCsTwRDA0ry3oAmJxAGYFJKHQx-kfl1DtZXq-urrJgI_87oaUuaQWua-yAU5bMd0ijolhv77MPbhvL50DdkygzGL7FJaF3ZYm0OCcZpTDEskv3Wj8teWVKt-OKRf9sA/s909/Burgess-A.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="805" data-original-width="909" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj50wttGzP4mU-jDRM5wMubwSWqKsXISJIGVwiZYepZiyB6DeZOyPJ1oty8cpnhCsTwRDA0ry3oAmJxAGYFJKHQx-kfl1DtZXq-urrJgI_87oaUuaQWua-yAU5bMd0ijolhv77MPbhvL50DdkygzGL7FJaF3ZYm0OCcZpTDEskv3Wj8teWVKt-OKRf9sA/s16000/Burgess-A.png" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwFiMDED7LDmFZ-1vVHUU-K_fbS0U5WUlqhg-Ukibqeskendmg9dNqTfjjodpNSmFFUIuwjnIDAR9Fv7zWwvvRfX_ds1mnnjW3LNwcOtJB1rgg6bjFz0LiyS7sibJKpm6IIBsc7qUYmIq9YYoYvFfN0Gb5GBqc8u5sflR_bMDFTzPz8W17_cN1TaJNkQ/s909/Anthony__Burgess.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="677" data-original-width="909" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwFiMDED7LDmFZ-1vVHUU-K_fbS0U5WUlqhg-Ukibqeskendmg9dNqTfjjodpNSmFFUIuwjnIDAR9Fv7zWwvvRfX_ds1mnnjW3LNwcOtJB1rgg6bjFz0LiyS7sibJKpm6IIBsc7qUYmIq9YYoYvFfN0Gb5GBqc8u5sflR_bMDFTzPz8W17_cN1TaJNkQ/s16000/Anthony__Burgess.png" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">"Not how long but how vividly, happily, helpfully you have lived" - Alpha F</span><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174897229352741729.post-18447363147783849472022-08-20T09:45:00.002-07:002022-08-21T22:05:51.851-07:00Reduce Gas Bills When Boiling Water For Pasta etc....<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> I'd heard on the Elis James and John Robins Podcast...</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir0AO2Bswz5B1A1dg512awcc_wNmT7nujNLqhZVS_8gw9uApSY-E5z9gvOZQevyDpQyobzNtUHiOxPm4XIPL8GJ5sOHaHsaeVJnBaAmHLBKwP9IS12cFSE4js4xY0FMV9MN0xkK9S4IpKxRhIr31AZbn7B-5BmZF5VNIF69UrlMVmMzWgyJ1MH8Fd5Tg/s850/Ellis-James-And-John-Robins-Podcast.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="850" data-original-width="850" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir0AO2Bswz5B1A1dg512awcc_wNmT7nujNLqhZVS_8gw9uApSY-E5z9gvOZQevyDpQyobzNtUHiOxPm4XIPL8GJ5sOHaHsaeVJnBaAmHLBKwP9IS12cFSE4js4xY0FMV9MN0xkK9S4IpKxRhIr31AZbn7B-5BmZF5VNIF69UrlMVmMzWgyJ1MH8Fd5Tg/s16000/Ellis-James-And-John-Robins-Podcast.png" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />...that boiling water without the saucepan lid on wastes 40% of the gas used. For a few months I just accepted it, but then, I don't know why, I decided to test this assertion...</span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEjejHlCHIKP50WNZe4xjMUIC7T4LSi9lgkZmREJInfUCPubZF8UkX9Xbqfp8Wa0D_W5WRc5kjebpDqs79sZ22eoWIBPODMDki5UcM1Xr_t_W2X8klBY04JodPTZRJ5typPre2LbYqNeb1IopSKSpEmI4XjYz-VHxxtrMRjkIrvYap1tlXmh0xHakQ2g/s850/Save-gas-when-boling-water.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="258" data-original-width="850" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEjejHlCHIKP50WNZe4xjMUIC7T4LSi9lgkZmREJInfUCPubZF8UkX9Xbqfp8Wa0D_W5WRc5kjebpDqs79sZ22eoWIBPODMDki5UcM1Xr_t_W2X8klBY04JodPTZRJ5typPre2LbYqNeb1IopSKSpEmI4XjYz-VHxxtrMRjkIrvYap1tlXmh0xHakQ2g/s16000/Save-gas-when-boling-water.png" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I tested boiling 300ml, 600ml and 900ml and here are the results in time to get to boil in seconds.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuqXTGDIxQ0jPl2UPfUthlOUqnyoV9HpauoBjU5srdLaD32uaFRo8Bf1O-oDaEPauthzZKEs-MjJmWw3Ec-02z3_5y5FXcWZQCWjxSrX5xCMxAzEd5J-EWw99qI857bOdeBl-SrpEmKcyJErWmoT4rev3Hj5FhrUfgPzcW3UkgORaY00GGBoIeSbJ1eQ/s769/Save-gas-with-lid.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="241" data-original-width="769" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuqXTGDIxQ0jPl2UPfUthlOUqnyoV9HpauoBjU5srdLaD32uaFRo8Bf1O-oDaEPauthzZKEs-MjJmWw3Ec-02z3_5y5FXcWZQCWjxSrX5xCMxAzEd5J-EWw99qI857bOdeBl-SrpEmKcyJErWmoT4rev3Hj5FhrUfgPzcW3UkgORaY00GGBoIeSbJ1eQ/s16000/Save-gas-with-lid.png" /></a></span></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">It was a very rudimentary test, but it shows that there is a speed up in boil time (and so a diminution in gas consumption) if you put the lid on. It is nowhere near 40%, but if your gas supplier offered to cut you bills by 13% you wouldn't refuse would you?</span></p><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174897229352741729.post-20476311853333782252022-08-19T09:53:00.036-07:002022-08-21T22:02:15.958-07:00Emblems<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> I was listening to "The Verb" on BBC Radio 3 and heard a poet describe how her new book was inspired by another book nearly 500 years old, "Emblemi" by Andrea Alciato. I bought it because I'm always interested in <i>odd</i> illustrated books.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigjkByJBJZcp2j02ILvkaPpgyPQiBzbvFl1Bqqncho1WlJtCpCXeC20cxyLaj0kl6wbRFlU341L0U0GlS1_XCyy0DxZfEDjkipm_fkW0INFuYX-BN2aB-w-AOZFfnm-GgcDd4wYM8xMJ_cwv7soLADt7wwCt9-uY4jux5yxMcWc3PTjuc2-RDsPo6NLQ/s865/Emlbemi-cook-cover.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="865" data-original-width="557" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigjkByJBJZcp2j02ILvkaPpgyPQiBzbvFl1Bqqncho1WlJtCpCXeC20cxyLaj0kl6wbRFlU341L0U0GlS1_XCyy0DxZfEDjkipm_fkW0INFuYX-BN2aB-w-AOZFfnm-GgcDd4wYM8xMJ_cwv7soLADt7wwCt9-uY4jux5yxMcWc3PTjuc2-RDsPo6NLQ/s16000/Emlbemi-cook-cover.png" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> What I actually bought was a heavily documented and commented version by Mino Gabriele, it has 700 pages whereas the original had less than 50.</span><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>The original started off in 1531 as a text without illustrations, a list of mottos, aphorisms, sayings and nuggets of advice. Alciato (a famous Italian lawyer) hoped that artists would be inspired to illustrate the text. I won't go into the history of it but that is what happened. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>Here are a few of the pages.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">--o0o-- <br /></span></p><h4 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">"A ruler must protect his subjects"</span></h4><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihZ5w2gYYWPQOtb_CVxAbOq-MNs7wUQuTP5BvsmxVmTyUm-gRQtVKSlWN2ZZgmZP2vKAHiY6DO8Wb5-fcM6vFVvdgjkhZ_6FLGLbWuza2N7CgnTBCIcseTESSBbkVdMRplDSfXRC8GYOvXjSwYmhTbwDWMLm1PPD-2CILo78VY6YNKy60J7fou37En3Q/s600/Emblemi-Dolphin-2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="582" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihZ5w2gYYWPQOtb_CVxAbOq-MNs7wUQuTP5BvsmxVmTyUm-gRQtVKSlWN2ZZgmZP2vKAHiY6DO8Wb5-fcM6vFVvdgjkhZ_6FLGLbWuza2N7CgnTBCIcseTESSBbkVdMRplDSfXRC8GYOvXjSwYmhTbwDWMLm1PPD-2CILo78VY6YNKy60J7fou37En3Q/s16000/Emblemi-Dolphin-2.png" /></a></div><br /> The anchor symbolizes un-moving solidity, and the dolphin speed. A good ruler must have both of these properties.<p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">--o0o--</span></p><h4 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">"Neither by word nor deed should you offend anybody"</span></h4><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl_6yClsuZ3xxOQGWrfbvVKD9WixcKGSfqt87YN18_VvwRDjy-mi19LrsUexnHj9VN9mX7WyzoUt_c2yxwBtBXmEdU_QumwOzxwM1DOsNvQc-tYzFl8sbIZveuzV_QUJEiyCtD9qEBKXRIYUmyb83MDjk2y2RGWd18WxgYQBZLoR-sZf-_73cFOnYkHw/s600/Emblemi-Nemesis.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl_6yClsuZ3xxOQGWrfbvVKD9WixcKGSfqt87YN18_VvwRDjy-mi19LrsUexnHj9VN9mX7WyzoUt_c2yxwBtBXmEdU_QumwOzxwM1DOsNvQc-tYzFl8sbIZveuzV_QUJEiyCtD9qEBKXRIYUmyb83MDjk2y2RGWd18WxgYQBZLoR-sZf-_73cFOnYkHw/s16000/Emblemi-Nemesis.png" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">That lady there is Nemesis, "the goddess who enacts retribution against those who succumb to hubris, arrogance before the gods" (Wikipedia). And I'd always thought that nemesis was a <i>thing </i>not a <i>goddess</i>.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">--o0o--</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">There are many strange and even impossible aphorisms in the book, but this is one of the strangest:</span></p><h4 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">"In marriage respect is necessary"</span></h4><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1vG1BvuYV2jcwWBoMFWTe9doxgle2GyVNXIxAi5H4Tcq1ry2YFXNbPX7dPQrVQAfyUCOXtIeNEp_5MtWpDNbHaqDM5TDXidkTj_u3mdIV5eJxRs-BXzwcx2f6PvHv7CIhFIM6OHBdEl5jfUgPTccopsDsNFx0fpgHlJuEkMVSlpRNuxpz6hkvxXqXJg/s661/Respect-in-marriage.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="661" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1vG1BvuYV2jcwWBoMFWTe9doxgle2GyVNXIxAi5H4Tcq1ry2YFXNbPX7dPQrVQAfyUCOXtIeNEp_5MtWpDNbHaqDM5TDXidkTj_u3mdIV5eJxRs-BXzwcx2f6PvHv7CIhFIM6OHBdEl5jfUgPTccopsDsNFx0fpgHlJuEkMVSlpRNuxpz6hkvxXqXJg/s16000/Respect-in-marriage.png" /></a></div><br /> I don't mean the saying is strange, but the illustration. Apparently it used to be believed that male snakes and female fish could mate and have offspring. It presumably was thought that biting happens during snake-fish sex and the poison of the snake would kill the fish. So the snake spits out his venom on the river bank before the act, and sucks it back in after the act. Thus showing respect for his lady fish, keeping her safe.<p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-small;">As to the modern poems "inspired" by the emblems, they are like many these days. "Emblems" by Lucy Mercer contains a jumble of words which sound deep and mysterious, but aren't. For example:</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghCo54ugIUHda4Qi3Z1H74lUpSI60PY7A1Sgl8MhcH8RP2NkzJ958CVn9ugT1CdL5hzQL0h71nNMqELoIT63FLt6Y71P5woW7lPif2mdn2ad264S7zEFJRXlU6UMWnWqhH_WAYXObyi51wLJhZdAkeWFNEWQQe_awEhSm8t2M1_oz8socXZ_kOuzm0HA/s376/Emblemi-2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="312" data-original-width="376" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghCo54ugIUHda4Qi3Z1H74lUpSI60PY7A1Sgl8MhcH8RP2NkzJ958CVn9ugT1CdL5hzQL0h71nNMqELoIT63FLt6Y71P5woW7lPif2mdn2ad264S7zEFJRXlU6UMWnWqhH_WAYXObyi51wLJhZdAkeWFNEWQQe_awEhSm8t2M1_oz8socXZ_kOuzm0HA/s16000/Emblemi-2.png" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">"The Verb" used to be interesting before Ian Macmillan got hypnotized by poets and poems like the one above. And after one of these readings he'll <u><i><b>always</b></i></u> ask one of the other guests on the program: "Bob (or Sue or John), what did you like best about that poem?", ignoring the possibility that Bob or Sue or John did not like it at all.<br /></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174897229352741729.post-71915891356535776532022-08-07T09:25:00.000-07:002022-08-07T09:25:24.113-07:00Plump Grey Pigeon<p> When I go for a walk I pass a metal litter bin and my brain immediately sees a plump grey pigeon. Or it did the first twenty times.</p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJx1fOeg5SuPIFwtNEKRkdiWSVdgmAfv0Jus6O9nUPfLtF8nG5QWIpIGxhPlM8EmgTu4KLcqryUlTI7rBhpPWgGmSwQoTowANtrSPrPcNWn1y_YaZ67RBiKPjUdpLyqueXzkaBNMFZHV4-iVQtkaqw4ql6rM3QUYOJdJymqadaURZDbrQA_s2upg4MMA/s845/plump-grey-pigeon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="688" data-original-width="845" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJx1fOeg5SuPIFwtNEKRkdiWSVdgmAfv0Jus6O9nUPfLtF8nG5QWIpIGxhPlM8EmgTu4KLcqryUlTI7rBhpPWgGmSwQoTowANtrSPrPcNWn1y_YaZ67RBiKPjUdpLyqueXzkaBNMFZHV4-iVQtkaqw4ql6rM3QUYOJdJymqadaURZDbrQA_s2upg4MMA/s16000/plump-grey-pigeon.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p> The odd thing is that even though my conscious slow thought brain knew it was two metal spheres, my unconscious fast processing brain continued to tell me it was a fat grey pigeon.</p><p>And that phenomenon gives the title to Anne Tyler's "Redhead by the Side of the Road" novel.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPIqMW6yXABtaJ5-sYCbogIA6fqAht7i136gj9zjshz1Og8vqOuiQwpBuOSwd7GY8amh9uNv1r3Rlc27fFXj6zSN76JX7fZ78M_qesdKK8AxC2DfulGojvFaHbZ1IZOLEYZFDlyy1gJUHb5iv-hsDASGIYGxv7_BdmxCHqy3_0-nAjIPYDTq3kxplfRw/s845/redhead-by-side-of-road-Anne-Tyler.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="845" data-original-width="845" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPIqMW6yXABtaJ5-sYCbogIA6fqAht7i136gj9zjshz1Og8vqOuiQwpBuOSwd7GY8amh9uNv1r3Rlc27fFXj6zSN76JX7fZ78M_qesdKK8AxC2DfulGojvFaHbZ1IZOLEYZFDlyy1gJUHb5iv-hsDASGIYGxv7_BdmxCHqy3_0-nAjIPYDTq3kxplfRw/s16000/redhead-by-side-of-road-Anne-Tyler.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><p> The main character runs passed a fire hydrant on his daily run and always initially identifies it as a redheaded woman (sitting?) by the side of the road. Even though he knows it isn't.</p><p>Our brains our brains, so creative and fallible.<br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174897229352741729.post-4437555126488366262022-08-06T05:44:00.003-07:002022-08-07T06:06:39.761-07:00My mind mixes fantasy and reality (maybe yours does too...)<p> I was watching the BBC TV series Gentleman Jack one day, and there was a scene in which she gets up and walks briskly around a table...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzeTZ496is8h6CP7KJdtWrkDrZKYqVAl3_GiZ5nzgHs9ubAwv9FTWHwIWTo4qnVnDTvqt600u9BZITmZqxMES-3P3pWsY2cl4im2yZxSRjSOtGedhfdVvxczY0LyRzdNLSs1lab1i44yQLHMfuCKzCjl9-ouv48T3PCogTjb0brEk9RGrf_g_FheqsNg/s863/Gentleman-Jack-Walks-Around-A-Table.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="485" data-original-width="863" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzeTZ496is8h6CP7KJdtWrkDrZKYqVAl3_GiZ5nzgHs9ubAwv9FTWHwIWTo4qnVnDTvqt600u9BZITmZqxMES-3P3pWsY2cl4im2yZxSRjSOtGedhfdVvxczY0LyRzdNLSs1lab1i44yQLHMfuCKzCjl9-ouv48T3PCogTjb0brEk9RGrf_g_FheqsNg/s16000/Gentleman-Jack-Walks-Around-A-Table.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p>...and at that very moment I'd connected my cell phone to its charger...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxmE3d2SHe6c2p0ingjiUpume__Z2jPr-iE-iJMOH6HJLGpiwYZqubG53MKoiqmRJ21F9lMljPQgGa-9_CSNX-t_jwsa_g8F3qOQ1GTzWWb3zWvKWhI_5GYe1dSvnXxXvsVOpKcgC5dAcxNE6lvm908GDcY9FRy7GhbjzyN4PdvGsSWBX-DbbRAQZXrg/s863/Gentleman-Jack's-Cell-Phone-Charging.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="409" data-original-width="863" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxmE3d2SHe6c2p0ingjiUpume__Z2jPr-iE-iJMOH6HJLGpiwYZqubG53MKoiqmRJ21F9lMljPQgGa-9_CSNX-t_jwsa_g8F3qOQ1GTzWWb3zWvKWhI_5GYe1dSvnXxXvsVOpKcgC5dAcxNE6lvm908GDcY9FRy7GhbjzyN4PdvGsSWBX-DbbRAQZXrg/s16000/Gentleman-Jack's-Cell-Phone-Charging.jpg" /></a></div><p>...and I swear I was about to tell her to be careful else she'd trip up over the charging wire.</p><p>How my mind merges reality and fantasy in strange unconscious ways.<br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174897229352741729.post-63026274664309644412022-08-06T03:11:00.004-07:002022-09-09T12:39:02.026-07:00Whatever happened to...?<p> When I was studying in Yokohama, Japan, in the 1980s, Brian Eno came to Tokyo. As part of his visit he was to give a talk.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibtbjVz6inbfNl6oiwBjiNRQy6mwr1yPRg3EeTDi4QdatI7fV3nFfbgwgGheQODoa3oE8j4t91TixvCrYDRoDeigxprTieVkxnfcdFOfe_htmrj1E1MRDuOJE4WjgRU8f8W9BYx56L9nx70BD6t56fN4ehzljVi0Qw8cKIMjQRjADfMcd7bgXYjT3yGw/s1007/Brian-Eno-In-Tokyo-Front.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1007" data-original-width="708" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibtbjVz6inbfNl6oiwBjiNRQy6mwr1yPRg3EeTDi4QdatI7fV3nFfbgwgGheQODoa3oE8j4t91TixvCrYDRoDeigxprTieVkxnfcdFOfe_htmrj1E1MRDuOJE4WjgRU8f8W9BYx56L9nx70BD6t56fN4ehzljVi0Qw8cKIMjQRjADfMcd7bgXYjT3yGw/s16000/Brian-Eno-In-Tokyo-Front.jpg" /></a></div><br />.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiOgQ7yk15ukY1IZZzAP0RIdbjEGqki-vMPEhYi1BbkvWWt7wDQ_ZtB6tJg5KonSsXJ0ualZ-9QJDELlj3B3Pu3IfpuwlCk1dNPjFpLOO2MxdoGlSY2AjS-8N2gaczsrl_ExDAvtejH8LA508Rh0sPp_Cvsasw7efVH7pBYd0jGXEmNl6IKV9kWrgcxA/s1016/Brian-Eno-In-Tokyo-Back.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1016" data-original-width="708" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiOgQ7yk15ukY1IZZzAP0RIdbjEGqki-vMPEhYi1BbkvWWt7wDQ_ZtB6tJg5KonSsXJ0ualZ-9QJDELlj3B3Pu3IfpuwlCk1dNPjFpLOO2MxdoGlSY2AjS-8N2gaczsrl_ExDAvtejH8LA508Rh0sPp_Cvsasw7efVH7pBYd0jGXEmNl6IKV9kWrgcxA/s16000/Brian-Eno-In-Tokyo-Back.jpg" /></a></div><p>I bought tickets for myself, an Australian friend and two Japanese girls. I annoyed the hell out of them by insisting we got there early, then we had to wait around for an hour or so. I sat by the building...</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjpBgrmvFUdeRwsAUOpcQT5F3Ah1aPZBGHZpy7WECWov_TwpRtO9KLSXn9WMwAiIbbiNcTc85nAi0xlaBh2DR16WqLQARyaE0CZkL9xErJF5xXoxx_bbzGuVFQE9iXbQhfEmZHAThHWY82W4s5NjvqGs4yYnIL12iOy16dss-rkhjxgcsl26p9I4p64A/s932/waiting-for-Brian-Eno-In-Japan.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="932" data-original-width="612" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjpBgrmvFUdeRwsAUOpcQT5F3Ah1aPZBGHZpy7WECWov_TwpRtO9KLSXn9WMwAiIbbiNcTc85nAi0xlaBh2DR16WqLQARyaE0CZkL9xErJF5xXoxx_bbzGuVFQE9iXbQhfEmZHAThHWY82W4s5NjvqGs4yYnIL12iOy16dss-rkhjxgcsl26p9I4p64A/s16000/waiting-for-Brian-Eno-In-Japan.jpg" /></a></div><br />...unabashed at the long wait I'd forced on the others.<p></p><p><i>Anyway, </i>of the whole talk I don't remember anything, except when a Japanese bloke asked Brian Eno how he got the atmospheric feeling you hear/feel in the tracks of <i>On Land</i>.</p><p> <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguDJIpBxCno2zJ5C1OV3okkDS20p1HGtOqrCJHt3W6j8CnP9bOfBeC2-XKosctxI3MWjg58HICkhuqLNGAB6XUDGtV6ZMa3Dq2a5Se1RZ5dFYWervelKgWzBzIwvVKIjhNgDoK-Fxj3HUKC1yA0820lrdRt_P5in2pJeresnP-LceICF7ynKhyBpZ21w/s640/Brian-Eno-On-Land-Cover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguDJIpBxCno2zJ5C1OV3okkDS20p1HGtOqrCJHt3W6j8CnP9bOfBeC2-XKosctxI3MWjg58HICkhuqLNGAB6XUDGtV6ZMa3Dq2a5Se1RZ5dFYWervelKgWzBzIwvVKIjhNgDoK-Fxj3HUKC1yA0820lrdRt_P5in2pJeresnP-LceICF7ynKhyBpZ21w/s16000/Brian-Eno-On-Land-Cover.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p> The Japanese bloke said he just could not get the same "feel". Brian replied that he could give no advice except to keep on trying and trying and trying.</p><p>And every now and then, sometimes when I listen to <i>On Land</i>, I wonder if the Japanese bloke ever got to create the music he wanted to. And whatever happened to him in the end?<br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174897229352741729.post-80344901188273592232022-02-05T08:52:00.001-08:002022-02-05T08:52:15.860-08:00Pale Fire (on the radio!), and other good stuff...<p><i> Pale Fire</i> by Vladimir Nabokov is a strange and compelling book.</p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhfpWs-iZTmK-x1U4Y-3N750qx7m9LAKo1qNPsSLF7stnwzUfwc2NpHU7nLJqtQ58WXd8qXxBkhYCs0ZigC3PqWf0ZgLitstrZH8iaFwabYJ7C1gqNmE99wG10iteyQyVZDGFNwEeA0CtH8ytG_HNK40qLdr7iQHP7LzchBuJ4OVu1mGCj4WGvurtz2jA=s767" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="767" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhfpWs-iZTmK-x1U4Y-3N750qx7m9LAKo1qNPsSLF7stnwzUfwc2NpHU7nLJqtQ58WXd8qXxBkhYCs0ZigC3PqWf0ZgLitstrZH8iaFwabYJ7C1gqNmE99wG10iteyQyVZDGFNwEeA0CtH8ytG_HNK40qLdr7iQHP7LzchBuJ4OVu1mGCj4WGvurtz2jA=s16000" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>I'd have thought it was impossible to put on as a radio play, but, dramatized by Oliver Emanuel, it comes off very very well. Just as strange as the original, you can find it on BBC Sounds.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjFo4_TsyHmYd6n3oqdyCcM3f31dIYnNhjJoGnG8yWIkX7DFWIife3BmYNLjpdhodS874zKCtmSt5P40AzUnIyOMJRJre9N-W0DDhlyL88_W5Behlez9Q6cZ3edIOkgNoCCCPtsl5CTMHDRtVd7Z5M2V5yxjT_Fv5j3gKy4jZYx20QzRRMqpy5uKMbn8g=s500" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="233" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjFo4_TsyHmYd6n3oqdyCcM3f31dIYnNhjJoGnG8yWIkX7DFWIife3BmYNLjpdhodS874zKCtmSt5P40AzUnIyOMJRJre9N-W0DDhlyL88_W5Behlez9Q6cZ3edIOkgNoCCCPtsl5CTMHDRtVd7Z5M2V5yxjT_Fv5j3gKy4jZYx20QzRRMqpy5uKMbn8g=s16000" /></a></div> <p></p><p>By chance I'd re-read the novel just a few months ago, so I'm not sure how confusing it might be to someone who comes to it fresh. Still, a brilliant adaptation, directed by Kirsty Williams.</p><p> I've neve<span style="font-size: small;">r been able to get passed the first few pages of</span><span style="font-size: small;"> <i>Ulysses </i>by James Joyces, but this adaptation of <i>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man</i>...</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiSbKb2San_QRiuxgL7vbFeFoWtNURhNQNrwzcArdF9BDXo-ieK_cLpPYy2TyYzmPZNVqidd2gWbpMLrwJWek4E2vGLIFCfU-r_7OL-7ljvybJeQQtD4Z8rJqMF3K_o3oRI4cMpi8WFOH_R1V6faQP7HrhA1X_wpjUjX8ezZpRiGJZg5Z_gFDwPPp6FRQ=s831" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="831" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiSbKb2San_QRiuxgL7vbFeFoWtNURhNQNrwzcArdF9BDXo-ieK_cLpPYy2TyYzmPZNVqidd2gWbpMLrwJWek4E2vGLIFCfU-r_7OL-7ljvybJeQQtD4Z8rJqMF3K_o3oRI4cMpi8WFOH_R1V6faQP7HrhA1X_wpjUjX8ezZpRiGJZg5Z_gFDwPPp6FRQ=s16000" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">...was very good, again you'll find it on BBC Sounds. Read by Andrew Scott. Get the two omnibus editions if you can find them.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiMhNgqU9WbBx9lLUQzVtEJzOa-mQaVdT6RxrDcv3CE17KJNiIftALXAKabiHaKGCwj_4XtK9Tz5tfsYrFrxSH6Y5XLoWAUUAElwCqDRnbdVHOoQXP1sSV2Vp5dFvZlQJghV5b5V-6XJQF0UOJDwRS6PNalD6YGuwr8X0RbZNKuyYNwoJ5MqsxQEuXXfQ=s500" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="258" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiMhNgqU9WbBx9lLUQzVtEJzOa-mQaVdT6RxrDcv3CE17KJNiIftALXAKabiHaKGCwj_4XtK9Tz5tfsYrFrxSH6Y5XLoWAUUAElwCqDRnbdVHOoQXP1sSV2Vp5dFvZlQJghV5b5V-6XJQF0UOJDwRS6PNalD6YGuwr8X0RbZNKuyYNwoJ5MqsxQEuXXfQ=s16000" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><br /> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">It has been a good couple of weeks on the radio, because there was also <i>Wunderkind</i>, b</span><span style="font-size: small;">y Sebastian Baczkiewicz. "<i>It's 1770 and Leopold Mozart is taking his
14-year-old son on a much-anticipated trip to Italy to perform for the
great and the good. They hit trouble in Rome when young Wolfgang is
found to have written down the closely guarded and hitherto unpublished
music for Allegri's sacred 'Miserere'. And Cardinal Ucelli sees a chance
to make a name for himself.</i>"</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgsdqtmILZ0uaAO5f66Cd5VNbESDtHuqyS4LHXcKJJkkIXDbb-H7LWenWLwIhOWImd4BLrM6hGy7DsmBfKEkihZTKq0vSptwe7qg89XMNXXlxB41hvKP-lCZKr6HKPvVrLAvhUrurYDrMSHQghNZnG0su_weNV3yHPveVvcmzZ1Ot-6FnyKXnYlFZ0bTg=s500" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="379" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgsdqtmILZ0uaAO5f66Cd5VNbESDtHuqyS4LHXcKJJkkIXDbb-H7LWenWLwIhOWImd4BLrM6hGy7DsmBfKEkihZTKq0vSptwe7qg89XMNXXlxB41hvKP-lCZKr6HKPvVrLAvhUrurYDrMSHQghNZnG0su_weNV3yHPveVvcmzZ1Ot-6FnyKXnYlFZ0bTg=s16000" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><br /> Scary in the way that it illustrates what happens when you give believers in God too much power.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">And as if my cup was not overflowing there is a good new radio comedy (rare these days)</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <i>The Train at Platform 4</i>. Written by High Dennis and Steve Punt, plus a good cast Good stuff.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgBDwxLR8u4BOvYWUSSU8F9aGGFnH397kT4v5Jx3odzKkUK6lO8C65A83H1oWvRIDM_3LURzqooRANtauOXb_VpuCoNxdr1pnHfVqxlAGFb1h8wDm2VNfZq46j86xMsjZZPBZ2R-CRqAYRwEyId_B7MDQJ7JgIXSZ0eRsRMTmPLPVeIhoCbig4CvNYuDQ=s500" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="222" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgBDwxLR8u4BOvYWUSSU8F9aGGFnH397kT4v5Jx3odzKkUK6lO8C65A83H1oWvRIDM_3LURzqooRANtauOXb_VpuCoNxdr1pnHfVqxlAGFb1h8wDm2VNfZq46j86xMsjZZPBZ2R-CRqAYRwEyId_B7MDQJ7JgIXSZ0eRsRMTmPLPVeIhoCbig4CvNYuDQ=s16000" /></a></div><br /> <br /></span><p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <br /></p><h5 class="c-detail__title"><br /></h5>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2174897229352741729.post-1326575008269952242021-12-20T11:24:00.012-08:002021-12-21T20:44:39.237-08:00Winter skies seem to offer more infinity<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> I don't know why but Winter skies seem to offer more infinity (compared with Summer skies).</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi-Ikdv8VbDz70JoESIs3JdBz_e0h7YgcwXXhpkpcN_6gmXfV3ntI_1Vw6TvFW9R-oHIoeEU1FGtXxUc1CvNhqUs4v2vfMXOxe7EwCtPgfRTpvP_RivFjP_JRE0Bd-Vh8umPlXuVZq4GesgJLz2kBF0EwkEin42fm5EtSPiEIn6oKAFd3BsviAsqyLYUQ=s1176" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="746" data-original-width="1176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi-Ikdv8VbDz70JoESIs3JdBz_e0h7YgcwXXhpkpcN_6gmXfV3ntI_1Vw6TvFW9R-oHIoeEU1FGtXxUc1CvNhqUs4v2vfMXOxe7EwCtPgfRTpvP_RivFjP_JRE0Bd-Vh8umPlXuVZq4GesgJLz2kBF0EwkEin42fm5EtSPiEIn6oKAFd3BsviAsqyLYUQ=s16000" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Maybe because I find heat oppressive, and I find the cold clean.</span><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0