A Steady Wind

Clay: sculpture-mix.
Unglazed at present.
Oxide with clear glaze?
Oxide without any other glazing?

"The Way of the Scholar"

Here's a quick passage from Sarah Caudwell's mystery novel Thus Was Adonis Murdered:

"On my first day in London I made an early start.  Reaching the Public Records Office not much after ten, I soon secured the papers needed for my research and settled into my place.  I became, as is the way of the scholar, so deeply absorbed as to lose all consciousness of my surroundings or of the passage of time.  When at last I came to myself, it was almost eleven and I was quite exhausted: I knew I could not prudently continue without refreshment."

English Literature: 1660-1850

Here are the specific books I'm ordering for the survey course I'll be teaching next term.

Stanley Appelbaum, English Romantic Poetry: An Anthology
Jane Austen, Persuasion
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
Alexander Pope, Essay on Man and Other Poems
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto

Also, I've a rather full Reader of plays, stories, excerpts from novels, poems, and essays: Restoration drama and poetry; Richardson's Pamela (in part); the Graveyard/Elegy school; "A Modest Proposal"; among others.  In addition, I tend to supplement the assigned material with impromptu handouts on an almost weekly basis.

Dover Thrift editions too.

The Drowned Man: A Mask

Here's another vision, another version, of what "The Drowned Man" voices to me . . . despite those tightly held lips.

"Consider Phlebas" in another context.

"Hail and farewell" from another vantage, from yet another angle.

"Winter is a-coming in" --Ezra Pound? or some anonymous medieval poet?

Watch-Cat

Or, Profile Pic (Feline)

Motley, 17+.  Still purring . . . .

(Dear Mom, You'd appreciate this shot.
Remembering Charlie, Sam, Kitty-Cat, Piggy, Willie, Smokey & Tiger
as well as you this day, this season.)

Rudi too, of course.

Arnold: "With Noiseless Current Strong, Obscure and Deep"

Below the surface-stream, shallow and light,
Of what we say we feel -- below the stream,
As light, of what we think we feel -- there flows
With noiseless current strong, obscure and deep,
The central stream of what we feel indeed.

--Matthew Arnold

(1869)

Strong Woman

Trickster: I've posted shots of her a few times, at least twice. Here's the link to her August 2012 appearance.