Solvitur Ambulando - it is solved by walking. 'I hoard books. They are people who don't leave' - Anne Sexton
London, England
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At the core of Vilhelm Hammershøi's work lies a dissonance between the personal and the anonymous. His interiors are often compared to those of Vermeer, but while they convey similar lighting they are stripped down to combine a sense of intimacy with a feeling of detachment.
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Ravilious for #Remembrance - Dangerous Work At Low Tide, Eric Ravilious, 1940. It depicts a Royal Navy bomb disposal unit on the #Kent coast during his time as an official War Artist in #WW2. The original artwork is in the collection of @I_W_M. #RemembranceDay #RemembranceSunday
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The flowers of Remembrance. Hour after hour an unceasing pilgrimage of bereaved mothers, wives, daughters, and sweethearts lay floral offerings on the Cenotaph. Armistice Day, London, 1920.
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How depressing that it’s impossible to have anything nice anymore. Canaletto’s painting this morning by the canal in London, covered in red spray paint applied by someone devoid of talent, brains and culture.
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Probably my favourite version. It's much less bombastic than Olivier's or Branagh's.
#StCrispinsDay
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As barbarians run amok amongst us once again, a warning from history. #WesternCivilisation teeters on the brink. #KennethClark #Paris #Marseille #Limoges.
“Looking at those great works of western man and remembering all that he’s achieved in philosophy, poetry, science, law making, it does seem hard to believe that European civilisation can ever vanish. And yet, you know, it has happened once. All the life giving human activities that we lump together under the word ‘civilisation’ have been obliterated once in Western Europe, when the barbarians ran over the Roman Empire.”
- Sir Kenneth Clark
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on Oct 14, a black bear entered the Mammoth Lakes Library at 6 am. it was the 100th anniversary of the publication of Winnie-the-Pooh.
the bear went right to the employees' food supplies. i know what you're thinking, and yes: he ate a pot of honey.
this was a pilgrimage.
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Six pro-Pals were arrested today for criminal damage after the Battle of Britain memorial was attacked. Wreaths lie broken and smashed at the feet of the monument dedicated to those brave warriors who defended us against the Nazis. Utterly shameful.
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October 7 2023 is the most documented and intensely filmed crime of mass murder and atrocious sadism in all of human history. Those who celebrated it on that day, October 8 2023 and the following weeks shocked us all.
Today should only be a sorrowful day. Those who march today of all days in London or elsewhere are not only rejecting and mocking the most elementary decency but celebrating the killing, torture and rape of ordinary people. It is hard to think of anything more degenerate and depraved.
The decision to allow this march today is unconscionable, cowardly and despicable @metpoliceuk @ShabanaMahmood, an abuse and degradation of our values of free speech and assembly, particularly after countless demonstrations that have already taken place. I am afraid it reveals a saddening and alarming void at the moral centre of this government and police that should worry us all.
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This little girl is Adelaide Springett, one of Horace Warner’s Spitalfields Nippers, photographed around 1901 when she was eight years old.
Warner pictured Adelaide in what he called “all her best clothes”, but she was barefoot. Her boots were in such a terrible state that she was too embarrassed to wear them for the photograph. Warner also photographed them and tagged them “Little Adelaide’s best and only boots.”
Adelaide knew real poverty. In 1901 she and her mother were living in a Salvation Army shelter in Hanbury Street, Spitalfields.
But the barefoot little girl survived those desperately hard beginnings. Adelaide lived until 1986, reaching the age of 93.
Two photographs that tell an extraordinary story of childhood poverty, and survival.
#EastEnd #SocialHistory #EdwardianLondon
This will never be topped 👏 #DavidNiven
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Marilyn Monroe’s witty response to a rude reporter asking her about her weight and clothing in 1956.⭐️ #happybirthdaymarilyn
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One thing no one mentions about being an adult is how much time you debate over keeping a cardboard box because it's a really good box.
#goodbox
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No messing around at the Green Party conference. Straight in with the batshit nonsense.
