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Self-centered
My hair turning grey, I grow old and I cannot help but keep brooding over the unavoidable leap into the bottomless pit of silence.
Such is my nature. I come to a point in my life where hopes (more like illusions) are deserting me. I have plans, I have ideas. But I breathe with difficulty everytime I consider one. I'm tired. I lack the energy. And I lack a stimulating environment.
I will endeavour to dedicate a greater part of my time to the arts. I need not to express, but to find myself in them. I need to paint. I need to fashion. I need to create my own environement.
I feel a bit shameful cose I keep talking about my own little person. One could reasonably argue that I'm self-centered. I'm ready to accept it.
The picture above is the terrace I designed for my mum. A simple one, for a limited budget. Do not mind the colours. Bad scanning.
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The Name of the Rose
So last night I ordered a book on the internet. I'm sure you all have heard of it, as it is one of Umberto Eco's most renowned written work which was successfully adapted for the cinema, i.e. The Name of the Rose. I loved the movie and I have an Italian copy of the novel. My Italian being too rusty, I couldn't pluck up the courage to open it and therefore resolved to opt for an English copy. Can't wait to get it.
I like it because it's kind of an escape from reality. An escape to a world which wasn't better, far from it, but... but what ? Why do I like it ? I think it's the concept. A tower which contains the knowledge of the world, and a world which remains savage, that is pure, not yet bearing the ugly mark (scar) of mankind. In those days, men lived not in harmony with Nature, but according to her principles. Today, the world is a nonsense as it works against her (best translation for contre nature). We are destroying ourselves because our technology enables us to stop complying with Nature. We live a full-scale (grandeur nature in French) tragedy.
Let me raise my glass to it !
The musket balls here above are some other acquisition of mine on Ebay. Dating from the Civil War (from a known battlefield in Yorkshire - 1644), they are a piece of history in themselves. I'll put them in a small glass vase by the chimney. Will look good.
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Bonne année !
Yes, first entry of the year. I've just bought the above coins on ebay. I always wanted to have a coin bearing the features of Medusa, a mythological creature who would literally petrify (i.e. turn into stone) her opponents by simply glaring at them. That one looks particularly expressive, don't you think ? (looks like she's wearing a brace !)
The other coin bears the feature of Julian II, last pagan emperor of the Roman world. Here too, the face is an interesting one. Unusual semitic nose, luscious lips and prominent chickbones which confer relief and vivacity to the face.
Wish you all a happy new year and a good health !
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