So, I am reading - a decade a day - the late great Tony Husband’s book The 20th Century in Cartoons” (to be clear, he selected them, he didn’t draw them.) See also The Onion’s Our Dumb Century. This decade, in my mind is one of…the American empire getting a bloody nose, stagflation etc. NB... Continue Reading →
What this project is about. This one is from Book 3. How long it took to read this (aloud): 14 mins 25s What it’s “about”: Tiresias tells Pentheus how it is going to play out (gory) and so it does (gory). Some sailors get turned into various kinds of sea life. Gory. Words I didn’t... Continue Reading →
So, I am reading - a decade a day - the late great Tony Husband’s book The 20th Century in Cartoons” (to be clear, he selected them, he didn’t draw them.) See also The Onion’s Our Dumb Century. This decade, in my mind is one of…sex drugs, state repression What I didn’t know: xxx Rembrandt‘s... Continue Reading →
What this project is about. This one is from Book 3. Echo and Narcissus is a myth from Ovid's Metamorphoses, a Roman mythological epic from the Augustan Age. The introduction of the mountain nymph, Echo, into the story of Narcissus, the beautiful youth who rejected Echo and fell in love with his own reflection, appears... Continue Reading →
So, I am reading - a decade a day - the late great Tony Husband’s book The 20th Century in Cartoons” (to be clear, he selected them, he didn’t draw them.) See also The Onion’s Our Dumb Century. This decade, in my mind is one of…enforced conformity (destruction of civil society) and the threat of... Continue Reading →
I am doing remedial accumulation of cultural capital - (having done Bill Shakespeare, Sherlock Holmes and the New Testament I've moved on to other fiction - Ovid's Metamorphoses. Mostly this stuff goes in one eye and out the other, because you don't use it so much in Day to Day life. Occasionally though, it's sooo... Continue Reading →
So, I am reading - a decade a day - the late great Tony Husband’s book The 20th Century in Cartoons” (to be clear, he selected them, he didn’t draw them.) See also The Onion’s Our Dumb Century. This decade, in my mind is one of…horror. Extreme violence and then the promise of nuclear war.... Continue Reading →
What this project is about. This one is from Book 3. How long it took to read this (aloud): 1 mins 52s What it’s “about”: So Jove and Juno were fooling ‘round When he complained “I do all the pound. I bet you dames enjoy the fuck More than men” “Boy don’t press your luck”... Continue Reading →
So, I am reading - a decade a day - the late great Tony Husband’s book The 20th Century in Cartoons” (to be clear, he selected them, he didn’t draw them.) See also The Onion’s Our Dumb Century. This decade, in my mind is one of…depression and fascism (the two entwined) What I didn’t know:President... Continue Reading →
What this project is about. This one is from Book 3. How long it took to read this (aloud): 4 mins 34s What it’s “about”: Juno, who really doesn’t understand that Jove has decided they are in an open marriage, disguises herself as an old woman, and convinces the preggers human Semele to ask Jove... Continue Reading →
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