The reader and I will preserve the fiction that Monsieur G. does not exist, and we shall concern ourselves with his drawings and his watercolours (for which he expresses a patrician scorn) as though we were scholars who had to pronounce upon precious historical documents, thrown up by chance, whose author must remain eternally unknown… [...]
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Mister G.
Posted in Painting, Writing, tagged charles baudelaire, constantin guys, flaneur, French painting, nineteenth century on September 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
King For A Day
Posted in HY Art, Writing, tagged aesthetics, cigarettes, climate change, coffee, Escher, Matt Kavanagh, music, Nietzsche, Writing on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
L’ordre du jour pour le roi.- The day begins: let us begin to order for this day the business and the festivals of our merciful master who is still deigning to rest. His majesty has bad weather today: we shall be careful not to call it bad; we shall not speak of the weather – [...]
Donnie G. is Bleeding
Posted in HY Art, Opera, Writing, tagged Dionysus, Don Giovanni, ethics, Love, Mozart, Nietzsche, Opera, Victorian opera on March 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mozart’s opera, Don Giovanni, finished playing at the National Theatre Saturday week ago. I caught the last night of the performance with Bella. Through wind and rain we made our way on the tram from Brunswick across the river to St Kilda for a night at the opera. The performance was enchanting. The lyrics were [...]
The Director’s Cut
Posted in Books, Friendship, HY Art, work, Writing, tagged Bataille, danse macabre, death, Derrida, ethics, faith, Henry Miller, Love, Of Grammatology, philosophy, Sexus, Spinoza, Tom Waits, William Burroughs, Writing and Difference on February 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The mechanism of our ordinary knowledge is of a cinematographical kind. Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution The ancient Egyptians postulated seven souls. Top soul, and the first to leave at the moment of death, is Ren, the Secret Name. This corresponds to my Director. He directs the film of your life from conception to death. The [...]
Cool Change
Posted in HY Art, Love, Writing, tagged climate change, Friendship, Greek mythology, Henry Miller, Love, Nietzsche, pomegranates, Sexuality, Sexus, Twilight of the Idols on February 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Slice an opening at the top, then gently pull the halves apart with your hands. A line from a letter by a former lover, my pen pal, a fellow student of Foucault. Attached to a gift, a pair of pomegranates, sent to me in the mail from Anglesea. These bold letters are instructions for opening [...]
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