Archive for: November, 2015

Uncategorized November 28, 2015

SUSPENDED MOTION

Just a lot of floating seeds to start with, all sorts of seeds. Joyce Carey, The Horse’s Mouth A new limerick sequence:

Uncategorized November 12, 2015

TIME AND TRAIN

I remember carriage interiors very like this, with the leather strap to adjust the window to keep out smoke. I travelled widely as a touring actor before the infamous Dr Beeching axed hundreds of miles of branch lines in the early 1960s. I advise slow trains on branch lines, half-empty trains that go through meadows …

Uncategorized November 11, 2015

ART IN THE RIGHT PLACE

Violent brushwork and strident colour are the manifestation of a desperate intensity of vision, are an act of surrender to the terrible vitality of things. David Sylvester,  Encounter, December 1954 In March 1981, Emily and I were busy. We spent eleven days in a television studio, filming Trevor Nunn’s RSC stage production of Chekhov’s Three …

Uncategorized November 1, 2015

IN THE STILL OF THE NIGHT

The sacred sense of beyond, of timelessness, of a world which had an eternal value and the substance of which was divine had been given back to me today by this friend of mine who taught me dancing. Hermann Hesse A short Halloween reflection in limerick form: