Posts by Lilith __
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Hard News: Belief Media, in reply to Danielle,
There are apocryphal gospels by both Marys, aren’t there? I can’t imagine why they weren’t included.
And yet St John the Divine gets his book in! I never could figure out how.
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Capture: Two Tripods, One Night, in reply to Gudrun Gisela,
Tonight along the causeway.
ChristchurchHeh, a beautiful moon struggling to compete with the road-signs and streetlights. :-)
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Capture: Cut Collective: Public Access 5, in reply to Sacha,
We forget her skill rather than her demise.
What she did write was sensational. Such a pity she didn't have a lot more years (as Ted Hughes did) to hone her craft and write lots more.
[I've never understood the hatred a lot of Plath-fans have for Hughes. Her suicide was not his fault; it's just a rotten shame and a tragedy for all concerned.]
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The moon is no door. It is a face in its own right,
White as a knuckle and terribly upset.
It drags the sea after it like a dark crime; it is quiet
With the O-gape of complete despair. I live here.Sylvia Plath, from The Moon and the Yew Tree
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Hard News: Belief Media, in reply to Simon Grigg,
Coupled with the fact that even if we knew that he actually was – which is at best about 50/50 – we have absolutely no idea what he really said, did, thought or anything else.
I was fascinated to read Philip Pullman’s The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ which might also interest some here. It re-imagines the life of Jesus as if lived by twin brothers, Jesus and Christ, one gentle and naive, the other political and unscrupulous. It’s full of surprises and raises some complex issues.
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Capture: Cats Love Cameras, in reply to Russell Brown,
Colin stationed himself in the adjacent cabbage tree in the forlorn hope of bagging a waxeye visiting the denuded fig tree
Colin must see himself like this. :-)
And I've never known a cat that figured out the sensible way to come down a cabbage tree, so maybe he does have superpowers.
It amuses me how suburban cabbage trees always have that scarified patch at exactly the same height, though. :-)
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Capture: Cut Collective: Public Access 5, in reply to JacksonP,
Oh, bravo, Jack!! :-)
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Capture: Cut Collective: Public Access 5, in reply to JacksonP,
I found myself getting a kind of reversed vertigo looking up.
Awesome! Go back at night for the reverse effect?
I was just reading this in China Miéville’s Kraken
They were on the top deck, above the most garish of central London’s neon, by low treetops and first-floor windows, the tops of street signs. The light zones were reversed from their oceanic order, rising, not pitching, into dark. The street on which lamps shone and that was glared by shopwindow fluorescence was the shallowest and lightest place: the sky was the abyss, pointed by stars like bioluminescence. In the bus’s upper deck they were at the edges of deep, the fringe of the dysphotic zone, where empty offices murked up out of sight. Billy looked up as if down into a deep-sea trench.
Wheeeee……….
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Simon Grigg,
Yes :)
Superb! Thank you.