Wednesday, 26 November 2025

{The Poussin Circle [continued (11)]}[11th May 1991]

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*cp Habsburgs: ‘Austriae Est Imperare Orbi Universo’. (?)

[So, speculatively (for example!) & in dog-Latin: Orbo Universum Orbo Spiritum Vinco Amorem Vinco Vivendum]


**[– ibid]



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Tuesday, 25 November 2025

{The Poussin Circle [continued (10)]}[11th May 1991]

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*[– ibid]



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Monday, 24 November 2025

{The Poussin Circle [continued (9)]}[11th May 1991]

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*‘22. Below right. “Les Bergers d’Arcadie” by Poussin, c[irca]1640-42[ce].**


2048GR~|ms~1664[ce]

(cf T.XVIII at R~)


The authors speculate that the lower picture [reproduced above] shows an actual tomb near Arques, southern France.

(PTO)/….


**[– ibid]



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Saturday, 22 November 2025

{The Poussin Circle [continued (8)]}[11th May 1991]

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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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{The Poussin Circle [continued (7)]}[11th May 1991]

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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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Friday, 21 November 2025

{The Poussin Circle [continued (6)]}[11th May 1991]

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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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Tuesday, 18 November 2025

{The Poussin Circle [continued (5)]}[11th May 1991]

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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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{The Poussin Circle [continued (4)]}[11th May 1991]

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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.]

[Source text continues from last ts journal entry]

[Source text continues in ts journal entry after next]



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{The Poussin Circle [continued (3)]}[11th May 1991]

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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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Saturday, 15 November 2025

{The Poussin Circle [continued]}[11th May 1991]

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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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{The Poussin Circle}[11th May 1991]

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*[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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{[...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.']


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*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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Wednesday, 12 November 2025

{[The Church Actually...]}[11th May 1991]

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*G[uardian] 910415:22





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{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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{Female Religion}[11th May 1991]

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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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Tuesday, 11 November 2025

{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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Monday, 3 November 2025

{The Birth of Religions}[11th May 1991]

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*(Education Guardian 19910430)

[For ‘the time-line (right)’ referred to above, see next ts journal entry]



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