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Blessay 21: High Rise Living | vastland
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Blessay 20: Nice People, Getting on Well. Blessay 22: It’s All Right Ma, I’m only Dreaming →. Blessay 21: High Rise Living. And the building, along with four other high rises along the road, was purchased by Camden Council. Noise travels up. If the window is open a cry from the street can disturb me afpter midnight. Though it’s rarely a single cry but several. A conversation ensues. ‘Gerry! You’re going the wrong way / What? The wrong way / I’m not / You are / No way! You are, man. You are! Dickens descr...
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Blessay 34: Calvino, Fellini and Making Images. Calvino started off with realistic novels like. The Path to the Nest of Spiders. About wartime Italian partisan life). Finding it difficult to remain a realist he wrote. About a 17th century viscount cloven in two by a cannonball). He did produce short story collections of a neo-realist tone,. Adam, One Afternoon. But his fictional trajectory became fantasy with such works as. The Castle of Crossed Destinies,. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler. Films matter...
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July | 2015 | vastland
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Blessay 25: Planetary States. Suite is an astrological not an astronomical conception of the planets. It’s concerned with planetary psychic influences and mental states. No Earth, Moon or Sun was composed by Holst. Pluto was discovered after The Planets had been composed and shortly before Holst’s death. In 2000 Colin Mathews wrote an ‘appendix’ to. Played by the BBC Philharmonic and conducted by Susanna Malkki. 2001: A Space Odyssey. On the train going home, some famous lines from Tennyson’s poem. An in...
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February | 2014 | vastland
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BLESSAY 3: Grim Reaper, just practising. There’s a wonderful troubling part of a sentence in Camus’s. In the first English translation of the novel it reads as “I was conscious only of the cymbals of the sun clashing on my skull…” This is said just before the protagonist Meursault shoots the Arab man on the beach. Since reading the book, in my teens, I’ve often been prone to imagine death as a dazzling sun and those clashing cymbals as the sound of its approach. It got louder and closer. An aircraft?
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Blessay 28: On Violence | vastland
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Blessay 27: An Afternoon at Lourdes. Blessay 29: Sam’s Poetry →. Blessay 28: On Violence. This is a mundane list of violent moments in my life, divided into two parts. 1) Violence as victim/perpetrator. Aged four and being hit hard, repeatedly on my head, by an older child, with a tin bucket, whilst playing in a sand pit in the park. My mother comforted me. Whilst the attacker was spanked by his Mum. Aged thirteen, fourteen and fifteen. Being caned at school for only talking in class. I learnt no...Aged ...
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Blessay 26: La Premiere Nuit | vastland
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Blessay 25: Planetary States. Blessay 27: An Afternoon at Lourdes →. Blessay 26: La Premiere Nuit. From 1949-58 Georges Franju only made shorts. Nine years of documentaries that ended with. Documentary in style but fictionalised. ) If I had to choose my favourite short film ever then it would be this 20 minute film. You can argue that Resnais’s. Or Bunuel and Dali’s. Are more important and influential films. That is probably true. And they are certainly poetic. But for me. Is a film poem. Astruc is seen ...
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Blessay 28: On Violence | vastland
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Blessay 27: An Afternoon at Lourdes. Blessay 29: Sam’s Poetry →. Blessay 28: On Violence. This is a mundane list of violent moments in my life, divided into two parts. 1) Violence as victim/perpetrator. Aged four and being hit hard, repeatedly on my head, by an older child, with a tin bucket, whilst playing in a sand pit in the park. My mother comforted me. Whilst the attacker was spanked by his Mum. Aged thirteen, fourteen and fifteen. Being caned at school for only talking in class. I learnt no...Aged ...
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May | 2015 | vastland
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Blessay 11: Swimming Away. To swim is to renew and acknowledge our beginnings. We evolved out of the oceans. And our life, before birth, is in the amniotic fluid of the womb. I sense a primal connection each time I move through a swimming pool, lake or ocean. That’s not to say that non-swimmers can’t know that as well. Yet to swim is to physically touch the watery starting point. Between the age of twelve to fifteen I read books where heroic boys and men swam. John Cheever’s short story. 8216;Peter you w...
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Newer posts →. Blessay 27: An Afternoon at Lourdes. Today I was talking to an angry man, on a train to Brighton, who was telling me about a friend who’d just died from prostate cancer. ‘Martin couldn’t get out of bed, and his wife booked a flight for him to travel to Lourdes. She’s a bloody old-fashioned Catholic…insisted he try a miracle cure…hah! Skeptic though I am, I didn’t echo his dismissive ‘hah! All it needed was Rossini’s. Overture from the film’s soundtrack. I caught the 5.30 bus. On ar...8217;...
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