Rooftop Guardians
From the Casà Mila, Barcelona. Designed by Antonio Gaudí. I took these pictures some years ago. The "knights" are chimneys and air vents.
Kayerts and Carlier from Joseph Conrad's "An Outpost of Progress"
"There were two white men in charge of the trading station. Kayerts, the chief, was short and fat; Carlier, the assistant, was tall, with a large head and a very broad trunk perched upon a long pair of thin legs." "Kayerts had been in the Administration of the Telegraphs, and knew how to express himself correctly....He regretted the streets, the pavements, the cafes, his friends of many years; all the things he used to see, day after day; all the thoughts suggested by familiar things--the thoughts effortless, monotonous, and soothing of a Government clerk; he regretted all the gossip, the small enmities, the mild venom, and the little jokes of Government offices." "Carlier, an ex-non-commissioned officer of cavalry in an army guaranteed from harm by several European Powers.." "Society, not from any tenderness, but because of its strange needs, had taken care of those two men, forbidding them all independent thought, all initiative, all departure from
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Another great interview-podcast. This time a interesting gaialogue with with Miriam Sagan
Miriam Sagan is the author of over twenty books, including a memoir, Searching for a Mustard Seed : A Young Widow’s Unconventional Story (Winner best Memoir from Independent Publishers, 2004). Her poetry includes Rag Trade, The Widow’s Coat, and The Art of Love.
In this interview she talks about literature as defiance, community, and her experience of writing in close relationship to Nature, among other topics...
http://www.futureprimitive.org/interviews/120
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