My Virtual Reading Room

"To live, we must die every instant. We must perish again and again in the storms that make life possible."

Oh my. :)

Oooh, Marianne North's paintings are gorgeous. Thank you for introducing me to her.

Unexamined by Emily Anthes or, apparently, Augustin Lignier: The possibilities that the arts view themselves as agents engaged in interactions-- with the world or with Mr. Lignier. Are they themselves experimenting? Or messaging?

The uninterrogated view taken of social media is of individuals operating transactionally, their behavior going through out-chats and their stimuli coming in via in-boxes.

But that's not the only way to live or to consider living.

Think about small children playing with gravity.

Tangential to Marianne North:

I've long been fascinated by the botanical explorers.

But this time I found myself thinking of the interiority of upper middle class British families from, say, 1800-1940. How often small groups of family members shared a life of the imaginative mind, as North and her father clearly did. And like the Brontes, the Farjeons, the Mitford's, and others. (I am not good at remembering things s lists.)

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