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Have been meaning to do this for months...
...post what I find as I find it along the way.
A map.
So much has already gone by.
For that, I will just have to list where I've already been.
And recreate the sequencing as best I can, if after the fact it seems important to do so.
Because one thing always leads to another.
I discover/learn/notice something and that discovery makes something else make sense.
Like doing a jigsaw puzzle. But completely in my mind.
At first I was reluctant to record the process.
Just flights of fancy, mine. No substance. No sense.
Just nonsense.
But the pieces that I was finding kept making sense.
Again and again it happened.
And each time I would think to start mapping it.
And each time I would think of what had gone before.
How I should have been writing it down all along.
And then not write it down.
A cartographer that works with invisible ink is more than less than unhelpful.
So, with blue/black ink in my pen, I'll begin.
Ici.
........................................
Hache marks on today's trees.
My breadcrumb trail into the thicket.
(I will return later to lay the connecting threads.)
But these breadcrumbs cannot be eaten, carried off, or blown away.
For I have written them down!
........................................
• Archetypes found.
• Archetypes NOT found (possibly more important).
• Oscar Wilde (again).
• The Picture of Dorian Gray.
• À rebours.
À rebours!
Mon Dieu! C'est encroyable! Vraiment? Oui.
And it stunned me.
And it keeps happening.
I send myself searching, today I started at wikipedia: 'archetypes'.
I follow anything that catches my attention. I shamble, I trip, I waste scads of time.
But sometimes, amazingly, a glass wall smacks me upside the head, and I fall onto treasure!
Something about the finding of what can't be found.
"À'rebours" (book).
Here another trail opens up: 'The Libertine'
• Against Nature (translated title of book).
• Huysmans (author of book).
• Mr. Huysmans (portrait painter, film, 'The Libertine')
• ??? Real name of painter? If not, then there are more connections to explore.
• Against nature, against reason, against constancy... Wilmot
• And/or author of play/screenplay, Stephen Jeffries
Reading list additions:
'The Picture of Dorian Gray' by Oscar Wilde
'À rebours' by ... Huysmans
'The Libertine' by Stephen Jeffries
...post what I find as I find it along the way.
A map.
So much has already gone by.
For that, I will just have to list where I've already been.
And recreate the sequencing as best I can, if after the fact it seems important to do so.
Because one thing always leads to another.
I discover/learn/notice something and that discovery makes something else make sense.
Like doing a jigsaw puzzle. But completely in my mind.
At first I was reluctant to record the process.
Just flights of fancy, mine. No substance. No sense.
Just nonsense.
But the pieces that I was finding kept making sense.
Again and again it happened.
And each time I would think to start mapping it.
And each time I would think of what had gone before.
How I should have been writing it down all along.
And then not write it down.
A cartographer that works with invisible ink is more than less than unhelpful.
So, with blue/black ink in my pen, I'll begin.
Ici.
........................................
Hache marks on today's trees.
My breadcrumb trail into the thicket.
(I will return later to lay the connecting threads.)
But these breadcrumbs cannot be eaten, carried off, or blown away.
For I have written them down!
........................................
• Archetypes found.
• Archetypes NOT found (possibly more important).
• Oscar Wilde (again).
• The Picture of Dorian Gray.
• À rebours.
À rebours!
Mon Dieu! C'est encroyable! Vraiment? Oui.
And it stunned me.
And it keeps happening.
I send myself searching, today I started at wikipedia: 'archetypes'.
I follow anything that catches my attention. I shamble, I trip, I waste scads of time.
But sometimes, amazingly, a glass wall smacks me upside the head, and I fall onto treasure!
Something about the finding of what can't be found.
"À'rebours" (book).
Here another trail opens up: 'The Libertine'
• Against Nature (translated title of book).
• Huysmans (author of book).
• Mr. Huysmans (portrait painter, film, 'The Libertine')
• ??? Real name of painter? If not, then there are more connections to explore.
• Against nature, against reason, against constancy... Wilmot
• And/or author of play/screenplay, Stephen Jeffries
Reading list additions:
'The Picture of Dorian Gray' by Oscar Wilde
'À rebours' by ... Huysmans
'The Libertine' by Stephen Jeffries
