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*‘21. Right. “Et in Arcadia Ego” by Poussin, his first painting on this theme, completed c[irca]1630[ce].**
**[– ibid]
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* ‘20. Below left. “Et in Arcadia Ego” by Guercino, c[irca]1618[ce], the first known painting to use this phrase.’**
**[– ibid]
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* ‘19. Left. “La Fontaine de Fortune” painted in 1457[ce] by René d’Anjou.** The inscription says the sorcerer Virgil brought the spring forth. René’s contemporaries would have associated Virgil with Arcadia. This is the first surfacing of Arcadia’s underground stream, Alpheus, in modern Western culture.’***
**Count of Provence & Piedmont <911030>
*** --from ‘The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail’, Baigent, Leigh, & Lincoln, between pp264 & 265 (he admitted with a certain amount of embarrassment).
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ref [[Redbook9:323-326][19910511:1000s]{‘The Baroque’ [Extracts from source text with ms notes][continued (19)]}[11th May 1991]&f?,] 326
{Poussin: 1594-1665[ce]}
{cf XV: [] 199}
**[Extracts from Duncan Bull, ‘A Philosopher of the brush’, subtitled The frozen music of Poussin’s art’, Times Literary Supplement 19910412:14-15, an article whose typeface as photocopied into the ms is too small to be included in the ts as a complete article.]
[Source text continues from last ts journal entry]
I do hope I can still read this 50%-size photocopy as I get older…. [W] said robustly, You can always use a magnifying-glass.
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*[‘This picture’ – ‘A Dance to the Music of Time’ by Nicolas Poussin; see last two previous ts journal entries]
**[Extracts from Duncan Bull, ‘A Philosopher of the brush’, subtitled The frozen music of Poussin’s art’, Times Literary Supplement 19910412:14-15, an article whose typeface as photocopied into the ms is too small to be included in the ts as a complete article.]
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*[A Dance to the Music of Time by Nicolas Poussin, between circa1634-1636ce. Wallace Collection, London.]
[See last previous ts journal entry]
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*[Footnote above:]
[– Encircled square cross, as depicted above]
**[References in text:
(1) ‘A literary existence of its own’: cf Anthony Powell, ‘A Dance to the Music of Time’ (12 volumes, 1951-1975ce);
(2) ‘Hazlitt’s proposition’: see last previous ts journal entry, first part]
***[Extracts from Duncan Bull, ‘A Philosopher of the brush’, subtitled The frozen music of Poussin’s art’, Times Literary Supplement 19910412:14-15, an article whose typeface as photocopied into the ms is too small to be included in the ts as a complete article.]
[Source text continues in ts journal entry after next]
[For reproduction of the work referred to, see next ts journal entry]
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[Redbook9:355][19910511:1817i]{[...Writing, Actually]}[11th May 1991]
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['Malcolm Bradbury was the only famous person I'd ever sat next to, excluding Gerry Adams.']
*G[uardian] 910507:34
[Title:] ‘The writing classes’
[Super-heading:] ‘Irish, working-class and screwed up, Philip McCann was the envy of fellow students at Malcolm Bradbury’s Booker factory. He recounts a painful year with the “persecuted” privileged.’
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*G[uardian] 910415:22
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[Redbook9:353][19910511:1817g]{Female Religion [continued]}[11th May 1991]
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*[Marginal notes above:]
[Ann Lee] 1736-1784[ce]
? [Mary Evans 1735-1789ce]
? [‘Luckie’ Elspeth Buchan 1739-1791ce]
? [Sarah Flaxner – no information found]
Joanna Southcott ... early 19th century [ce]]
**– G[uardian] 910509:33
[Article: ‘In today’s religious cults, women are at best subordinates, at worst sex objects. Yet, says Jane Rogers, this has not always been the case….’ :‘The weaker sects’ in the ms, the illustrations from which are not copied into the ts]
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**
*[Top notes above:]
Kempe c[irca]1373-c[irca]1440[ce]
Julian 1342-1416ff[ce]
** – G[uardian] 910506:25
[Part of longer article ‘Face to Faith: David Cockerell.’ ‘Why Margery fell down and spoke up’ in the ms, the rest of which is not copied into the ts]
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[Redbook9:350][19910511:1817e]{The Birth of Religions [continued]}[11th May 1991]
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*[Marginal notes above:]
2048C2048BCE
(2048U~1280BCE)
2048G~512BCE
2048C1[CE]
2048g~M~512CE
2048G~1536CE
2048C2048CE
[cf [Redbook6:257-259][19890913:0927i]{Historical Circles (4)}[13th September 1989],
[Redbook7:7][19900102:2245]{The Axial Age}[2nd January 1990],
[Redbook7:236-237][19900825:1102]{The Circles of the World}[25th August 1990],
[Redbook8:32-33][19901015:1017d]{[4,000 Years BC[E] – Commentary (1) [continued (4)]] … And Worldwide Rev’l’tion?}[15th October 1990]]
**(Education Guardian 19910430)
[3 further charts from the same article, showing the geographical spread of the major religions, photocopied on ms p351, are not reproduced in the ts]
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*(Education Guardian 19910430)
[For ‘the time-line (right)’ referred to above, see next ts journal entry]
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[Redbook9:348-349][19910511:1817c]{‘UFOs in the Dyfed Triangle’}[11th May 1991]
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[From this point until the end of this Volume, ms entries consist of miscellaneous press cuttings, followed by some photocopies from texts, of which only annotated or more relevant extracts are included in the ts]
[Cambrian News ‘Weekender’ 19910412:1 ‘Buzzed by a UFO in the Dyfed Triangle’ (describing local hovering lights seen by several people at Nevern, ‘on the edge of the Preseli mountains’, in the ‘Dyfed Triangle, a place were UFOs were common back in the 60s and 70s’)]
[Marginal note:] Ball lightning?
[Cambrian News ‘Weekender’ 19910426:1 ‘Illuminating revelations on Preselli mountain’ (including a subjective impression of ‘energy’, and a compass that swung through 180 degrees)]
[Marginal
note:]
cf an article in N[ew] S[cientist] 198208/09c[irca] on ?ultrasonic
‘bleeps’ measured accidentally from the Rollright Stones at
c[irca] dawn….*
(The Bluestones of Stonehenge were quarried from the Preseli Hills)
*[The original article was lost, but a copy was more recently found on the internet and downloaded, although possibly not included in this Journal]
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[Redbook9:347][19910511:1817b]{Professionals under Pressure}[11th May 1991]
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There have been a number of cases recently in the Universities (Swansea, anyway) & in the NHS of professionals (Academics, Doctors or Nurses)* who have spoken up in public to reveal what they believe to be the truth about how the institution is falling far short of its ideals, in respect of their own professional responsibilities, and have been sacked as a result.
I don't recall those sorts of things happening before.
It fits, though, with
(a) the commercialisation of the NHS (since** revealing a commercial concern's weaknesses to its rivals is clearly disadvantageous to its future success);&
(b) the apparent attempt to reduce education to objectively measurable results, even at the highest levels.***
Both these trends suggest****
movement onto the Outer Circle.
*eg Guardian, ?910510√ re a Consultant Haematologist (Dr Helen Zeitlin) <910518>
**[ie because]
*** eg per Guardian 910425:24, Judith Williamson
****{early, ie c[irca] S~.
Compare the pressures for ‘P.C’ (Political Correctness) in U.S. universities.}
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[Redbook9:347][19910511:1817]{A Dream: Extending the railway line}[11th May 1991]
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I haven't dreamt about extending the [preserved] Railway for years, so far as I recall. In the dream this morning I remember seeing that the young trees along and beside the trackbed across the valley from [C] had all been cleared;* saying rather regretfully to a railway operative that I had let my subscription lapse, twice in fact,** which was a pity as I had been one of the earliest members, joining originally back in 1959;*** & finally, seeing that the railway had reached [K] or may be a little beyond, asking: so you'll be pressing on through the (rubbish) tip,**** then? (Or words to that effect) – which the railway member confirmed they would.#
*([B] informed me of this a little while ago)
**(This is correct)
***(This might not be correct [although the writer joined the Society very early after its formation, and was, as a child, a passenger on a special train along the southern part of the line, arranged in connection with the Society's formation])
****(There is a cutting filed with rubbish between [K] & [T])
#cf [[Redbook9:180][19910422:0825b]{A Dream: Of a railway dome-car and a violent person}[22nd April 1991],] 180
Within the last few days I’ve received a request to rejoin[,] from the new Hon[orary] Mem[bership] Sec[retary] of the [...] Railway Preservation Society….
<910616>
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