Sunday 13 December 2015
Zurich in Joyce
"O, by the by, lets wee brag of praties, it ought to be always remembered in connection with what has gone before that there was a northroomer, Herr Betreffender, out for his zimmer holedigs, digging in number 32 at the Ram and Puncheon (Branch of Dirty Dick’s were house) in Laxslip (where the Sockeye Sammons were stopping at the time orange fasting) prior to that, A Kommerzial (Gorbotipacco, he was wreaking like Zentral Oylrubber) from Osterich, the U.S.E paying (Gaul save the mark!) 11/- in the week (Gosh, these wholly romads!) of conscience money in the first deal of Yuly wheil he was, swishing beesnest with blesure, and swobbing brogan eerish myth brockendootsch, making his reportage on Der Fall Adams for the Frankofurto Siding, a Fastland payrodicule, and er, consstated that one had on him the Lynn O’Brien, a meltoned lammswolle, disturbed, and wider he might the same zurichschicken other he would, with tosend and obertosend tonnowaters, one monkey’s damages become".
James Joyce, Finnegan's wake (1939) Chapter 3
Tuesday 8 December 2015
the tomb of Joyce in Zurich
The Dublin man came to Zurich in October 1904, only to depart for Trieste with the prospect of employment in the Austro-Hungarian city. He returned to live in the city in 1915 at the outset of the first world war, and in 1939 as the follow-up of the preceding took over, dying there in 1940, for you were almost right, amiable bottined-woolen Kharonnette, his tomb can be found in the Fluntern cemetery near the zoo.
Saturday 21 November 2015
Monday 16 November 2015
November
"I returned to a long strand,
the hammered curve of a bay,
and found only the secular
powers of the Atlantic thundering..." (Seamus Heaney, North)
"Of the first was he to bare arms and a name: Wassaily Booslaeugh of Riesengeborg. His crest of huroldry, in vert with ancillars, troublant agent, a hegoak, poursuivant, horrid, horned. His scutschum fessed, with archers strung, helio, of the second. Hootch is for husbandman handling his hoe. Hohohoho, Mister Finn, you're going to be Mister Finnagain! Comeday morm and, O, You're vine! Sendday's eve and, ah, you're vinegar! Hahahaha, Mister Funn, you're going to be fined again!" (James Joyce, Finnegans wake)
the hammered curve of a bay,
and found only the secular
powers of the Atlantic thundering..." (Seamus Heaney, North)
"Of the first was he to bare arms and a name: Wassaily Booslaeugh of Riesengeborg. His crest of huroldry, in vert with ancillars, troublant agent, a hegoak, poursuivant, horrid, horned. His scutschum fessed, with archers strung, helio, of the second. Hootch is for husbandman handling his hoe. Hohohoho, Mister Finn, you're going to be Mister Finnagain! Comeday morm and, O, You're vine! Sendday's eve and, ah, you're vinegar! Hahahaha, Mister Funn, you're going to be fined again!" (James Joyce, Finnegans wake)
Tuesday 3 November 2015
Sunday 1 November 2015
Thursday 29 October 2015
Monday 19 October 2015
Sunday 4 October 2015
port cities: nantes
La forme d’une ville change plus vite, on le
sait, que le cœur d’un mortel. Mais, avant de le laisser derrière elle en proie
à ses souvenirs – saisie qu’elle est, comme le sont toutes les villes, par le
vertige de métamorphose qui est la marque de la seconde moitié de notre siècle –
il arrive aussi, il arrive plus d’une fois que, ce cœur, ell l’ait changé à sa
manière, rien qu’en le soumettant tout neuf encore à son climat et à son
paysage, en imposant à ses perspectives intimes, comme à ses songeries le
canevas de ses rues, de ses boulevards et de ses parcs. Il n’est pas nécessaire,
il est sans doute même de médiocre conséquence qu’on l’ait vraiment habitée. Plus
fortement, plus durablement peut-être, agira-t-elle sur nous si elle s’est
gardée en partie secrète, si on a vécu avec elle, par quelque singularité de
condition sans accès vrai à son intimité familière, sans que notre déambulation
au long de ses rues ait jamais participé de la liberté, de la souple aisance de
la flânerie. Pour s’être prêtée sans commodité, pour ne s’être jamais tout à
fait donnée, peut-être a-t-elle enroulé plus serrée autour d’elle, comme une
femme, le fil de notre rêverie, mieux jalonné à ses couleurs les cheminements
du désir.
Julien Gracq, la forme d’une ville (1985)
Thursday 1 October 2015
Friday 4 September 2015
Thinking of Rome
"La forme vraie, dans la perspective entrevue, ce n'est plus celle, extérieure, de l'objet, mais celle, toute mentale, qui s'instaure entre des rapports de nombres et de couleurs - il y a là comme un passage de l'ancienne géométrie à l'algèbre, et de Pythagore à Poussin, sauf que la fin n'est pas dans le savoir. Poussin cherche plutôt - au moment même où le baroque tend à subordonner la peinture à l'architecture - à enrichir la première des pouvoirs propres de la seconde. En même temps reparaît, derrière l'artisan d'une société "esthétique", le grand esprit solitaire qui demande orgueilleusement à son seul regard d'être la forme suffisante où se résorbe un destin. C'est un chemin qui lui sera long et apparemment difficile. Mais sur lequel paraîtront un jour ces admirables chefs-d'oeuvre de transmutation en esprit de la richesse sensible: le Paysage avec un grand chemin (de 1658), les Cendres de Phocion (… ) Et peut-être y aura-t-il dans cette oeuvre la plus complexe de la peinture moderne un cheminement de rêve en rêve, où la question de l'amour, comme le baroque la pose, va reparaître, à partie de nouveau de ses expériences premières, jamais éteintes, l'enfance, le vrai lieu, la femme rédemptrice, le destin? (…) On ne peut se passer, dans le contact avec l'être, de la médiation des êtres particuliers."
Yves Bonnefoy, Rome, 1630, l'horizon du premier baroque (1970)
Yves Bonnefoy, Rome, 1630, l'horizon du premier baroque (1970)
Friday 28 August 2015
Monday 24 August 2015
Hampton court
"The palace of Hampton-court was first founded, and built from the ground, by that great statesman and favorite of King Henry VIII, Cardinal Wolsey; and if it be a just observation any where, as is made from the situation of the old babies and monasteries, the clergy were excellent judges of the beauty and pleasantness of the country, and whose always to plant in the best; I say, if it was a just observation in any case, it was in this; for if there be a situation on the whole river between Stanes-bridge and Windsorbridge, pleasanter than another, it is this of Hampton; close to the river, yet not offended by the rising of its waters in floods, or storms, near to the reflux of the tides, but not quite so near as to be affected with any foulness of the water, which the flowing of the tides generally is the occasion of."
William Defoe, A tour through the whole island of Great Britain Letter III (1724)
William Defoe, A tour through the whole island of Great Britain Letter III (1724)
Thursday 20 August 2015
Wednesday 19 August 2015
Sunday 16 August 2015
Above Passo Gavia
About where I decided it was getting a bit challenging for me and decided to bring this ascent to a halt… Summit was another 50m upwards, but from I gathered from the Milanese couple I met there too, you would need to be chained to reach it really.
Saturday 15 August 2015
Wednesday 5 August 2015
Friday 31 July 2015
Monday 20 July 2015
Friday 10 July 2015
Monday 18 May 2015
Monday 6 April 2015
Saturday 14 March 2015
Thursday 12 March 2015
Saturday 31 January 2015
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