Notices by Terry Grundy, FRSA (terrygrundy@mas.to), page 2

MEMORY OF ANCIENT KINGS

“Gallos” (2016), an 8-foot tall bronze statue of an ancient king by Rubin Eynon, stands guard at the faint ruins of Tintagel Castle in Cornwall. The site is thought to have been a summer residence for the kings of Dumnonia between the late 4th and late 8th centuries, i.e., between the end of Roman rule in Britain and the Anglo-Saxon period.

#RubinEynon #Tintagel #Cornwall

“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.” ~ Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

#ItaloCalvino #cities #dreams #Napoli #Naples

Vietnamese photographer Khánh Phan gives us this lovely 2022 shot, “Spring in Bac Ha”.

# KhánhPhan #VietnamesePhotography

The Ubiquity of Sheep

(Photo by François Xavier Lalanne)

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“Very often among a certain highly intelligent type of people, quite paradoxical ideas will establish themselves. But they have suffered so much in their lives for these ideas, and have paid so high a price for them that it becomes very painful, indeed almost impossible, for them to part with them.” ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead

#Dostoyevsky #VasilyPerov #contradiction

During the height of the London Blitz, the Queen was offered safety in Canada. Her reply: “The girls won't leave without me, I won't leave without the King, and the King will never leave."

#QueenElizabeth #TheQueenMother #ElizabethBowesLyon #courage

“It is with heavy hearts that we hear of the passing of the great Professor Peter Higgs. His work on the origin of mass is the keystone of our standard model of particles and forces. Understanding the particle he first predicted in 1964 will be the great mission of particle physics well into the latter half of this century. The Cambridge High Energy Group at the Cavendish Laboratory would like to offer our deepest sympathies to his family and friends.” ~ Professor Tina Potter and Harry Cliff

“I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.” ~ John Steinbeck

#JohnSteinbeck #LostAndFound

A very fine urban nocturne by Spanish painter Alejandro Quincoces (b. 1951) entitled “Lights and Shadows” — Oil on canvas , 140 x 70 cm.

#AlejandroQuincoces #UrbanLandscape

“Most people learn nothing from experience, except confirmation of their prejudices.” ~ Lord Bertrand Russell, Mortals and Others

#BertrandRussell #prejudice

“This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle!… I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself, than this incessant business.” ~ Henry David Thoreau, “Life Without Principle”

#business #AlienationFromSelf

Hagia Sophia

#FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #HagiaSophia #Istanbul

Like the movements of a dance—
The births and deaths of beings,
Vaporous as clouds.
A lifetime: flash of lightening in the sky,
Torrent rushing down a mountain chasm.

#VitaBrevis #MonoNoAware #物の哀れ

#FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #ClubLand

“I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut

#KurtVonnegut #Humanism

“Have I done something for the common good? Then I share in the benefits. Stay centered on that. Don't give up.” ~ Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations (11.4)

#MarcusAurelius #TheCommonGood #Stoicism

There are countless photos of mad King Ludwig’s Schloss Neuschwanstein—most in the nature of travel & tourism posters—but few that give a sense of how carefully and brilliantly it was sited in the magnificent surrounding landscape.

#Neuschwanstein #Bavaria #LudwigII #DerMärchenkönig

In 1985, American photographer Judith Glickman took this intimately elegiac shot on Great Diamond Island, Maine.

#FensterFreitag #WindowFriday

#Beethoven #EdnaStVincentMillay