…any who take pride in their nationality merely reveal their own morbid love of decay…
Patrick Keiller, Stonebridge Park.
ragged
Month: October 2013
fruit
a re-devised piece from a year back.
urchins ii
The radicals assumed that acting was more important than speaking. Talking and writing books, [Gerard] Winstanley insisted, is ‘all nothing and must die; for action is the life of all, and if thou dost not act, thou dost nothing.’ It is a thought worth pondering by those who read books about the seventeenth-century radicals, no less than by those who write them. Were you doers or talkers only? Bunyan asked his generation. What canst thou say?
Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down.
from dirt xxvi
from dirt xxv
something rather lovely – https://soundcloud.com/acornavi/robert-wilson-crickets-audio
urchins
Popular revolt was for many centuries an essential feature of the English tradition….
Christopher Hill, Introduction; ‘The World Turned Upside Down’.
fossilized urchin.
beauty
There is something beautiful in seeing the poor accept their lot, to suffer it like Christ’s Passion. The world gains much from their suffering
Mother Teresa (cited by Christopher Hitchens).
a quote i found drifting around the internet.
photographed at recent open studios by Luigi Vanzan.
from dirt xxiv
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