David Jones, artist and poet (1895-1974) begins his PREFACE TO THE ANATHEMATA :

'I have made a heap of all that I could find.' (1) So wrote Nennius, or whoever composed the introductory matter to Historia Brittonum. He speaks of an 'inward wound' which was caused by the fear that certain things dear to him 'should be like smoke dissipated'. Further, he says, 'not trusting my own learning, which is none at all, but partly from writings and monuments of the ancient inhabitants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans and the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Isidore, Hieronymous, Prosper, Eusebius and from the histories of the Scots and Saxons although our enemies . . . I have lispingly put together this . . . about past transactions, that [this material] might not be trodden under foot'. (2)

(1) The actual words are coacervavi omne quod inveni, and occur in Prologue 2 to the Historia.
(2) Quoted from the translation of Prologue 1. See The Works of Gildas and Nennius, J.A.Giles, London 1841.


07 February 2013

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Story Of An Eye (1998) by mOmus
cOncludes...

   "But, sitting here in my eye-patch, I personally hope that the Prosthetic Age will be a lot more than Arnold Schwarzenegger and Pamela Anderson duetting, in the soundtrack to some Post Human blockbuster, 'Thanks for the mammaries... and the memories!' We need to get beyond this paradox of the super-normal, this normal-only-more-so thing of bigger muscles and bigger boobs.

When I get that replacement eye, it's going to look a lot more interesting, and do a lot more things, than the one I lost.

Maybe I'll get them to put it on the back of my head so I can watch the twentieth century slipping away."
    
    - click HERE to read Story Of An Eye
      

      
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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
 someone looks at something ...

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Here is a scene from the controversial 1988 Melbourne production of stOry Of an eye as performed by the Operating Theatre of the Actors of Regard : in which...
    

  
 a crOss Of
 One cut + One lOOp Of knOtted thread 
 hOlds tOgether
 One eye 
 Of the wOrld
          
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And I'm in love with everyone who knows it's hard
To build a way of seeing
Who knows that nevertheless that's the only way
To flame into being

Yeah, I'm in love with everyone who knows it's hard
To build a way of seeing
Who knows that nevertheless that's the only way
To flame into being

- from Flame Into Being, mOmus (1987)
   
     

      
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