HPW and Orson on Kafka

A VISION

"One way or another we are going to have to figure out how to make our multi-ethnic realities work, and one of the great intellectual projects facing us - in America and abroad - will be to develop a vision of ourselves strong and supple enough both to acknowledge the lingering importance of inherited group identities while also attenuating, rather than reinforcing, the extent to which such identities are able to define us."

Thomas Chatterton Williams
Self Portrait in Black and White, p.77

What;s Going On?

Vinyl devised and brought together by Jacob and associates at Close Up, in order to raise awareness of the Music Venues Trust's https://saveourvenues.co.uk/#/ campaign.

https://www.blood-records.co.uk/product/mvt/

Also Perfect

SORRY - Perfect

SAD BOYS CLUB - THE MIRROR AND ME

SAD BOYS CLUB - KNOW Part II

ME ON A PODCAST

Here I am discussing the life of Daniel Mendoza with B'nai B'rith CEO Dan Mariaschin

MATTHEW ARNOLD - a stream of fresh and free thought

The whole scope of the essay is to recommend culture as the great help out of our present difficulties; culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world, and, through this knowledge, turning a stream of fresh and free thought upon our stock notions and habits, which we now follow staunchly but mechanically, vainly imagining that there is a virtue in following them staunchly which makes up for the mischief of following them mechanically.

Matthew Arnold

from Culture and Anarchy

VERY SHORT POEMS 2

NEW VENTURE PART TWO: Tiny Disturbances

IMMORTALITY

Me, by Maud Posner Wheldon

Review of Signatures by David Pryce-Jones

/https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/wynn-wheldon/seeking-truth-through-literary-encounters/

A Windy Day in Summer by Gerard Manley Hopkins

A Windy Day in Summer

by Gerard Manley Hopkins

The vex'd elm-heads are pale with the view

Of a mastering heaven utterly blue;

Swoll'n is the wind that in argent billows

Rolls across the labouring willows;

The chestnut-fans are loosely flirting,

And bared is the aspen's silky skirting;

The sapphire pools are smit with white

And silver-shot with gusty light;

While the breeze by rank and measure

Paves the clouds on the swept azure.

Some Mum Pics on her Birthday

ME NEW VENTURE

OK, so I'm going to become a massive YouTube star by reading VERY SHORT POEMS into my phone.  I hope anyone reading this will enjoy and SUBSCRIBE to my channel.

SAD BOYS CLUB 'Kyoto' (Phoebe Bridgers cover)