Highbrow Hiatus - Taking off to read manuscripts, back soon...

Sky King: Kirby Grant and Gloria Winters with a Cessna 310B, N5384A, the Songbird. (Photograph by Hal McAlpin)

Brigitte Bardot & Sacha Distel - La Bise Aux Hippies (1967)

Amusing satire.  "Free Love" indeed. Click HERE for lyrics.

Reading submissions, communications forthcoming...

Satan Rock Star - Reading of Satanic Verses (from Terrance Lindall and Bienvenido Bones Bañez, Jr.)

Just across my desk from Terrance Lindall.  Here, AI (I am assuming) reads from Bienvenido Bones Bañez, Jr's Satanic Verses.  While I have reservations about the theology, the productions of Monsieurs Lindall and Bañez are often intriguing:

Friday January 23, Joshua Tree, California

 

Space Cowboy Books 10 Year Anniversary Celebration

Friday January 23^rd 4-6pm

61871 29 Palms Hwy. Joshua Tree, CA 92252

https://spacecowboybooks.com/

Come celebrate this milestone with Joshua Tree’s independent bookstore, featuring live music from The Kearns Family & Phog Masheeen, with snacks by Epicurean Fling, and 10% off store-wide. This event is free to attend.

Since opening our doors in January of 2016, Space Cowboy Books has published forty-nine books, musical audiobooks, and chapbooks, plus fifty fanzines, hosted hundreds of in-person and online events, produced ninety-four episodes of Simultaneous Times podcast, won a multitude of awards (Laureate, Bram Stoker, Elgin, +), launched Electronic Brain magazine, provided annual scholarships for Clarion West and Odyssey Writing Workshops, given away thousands of kid’s books, donated hundreds of books to prisons, and generally proliferated the love of literature and all things science fiction. Here’s to ten more years!
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/space-cowboy-books-10-year-anniversary-celebration-tickets-1979065041815

For press inquiries and photo requests contact Jean-Paul L. Garnier spacecowboybooks@gmail.com

Jean-Paul L. Garnier

The Fantastic in Art and Fiction

 A Wayback Machine archive of fantastic art and fiction created by the Cornell University Library Institute for Digital Collections. Click the image for access:

Countess Mona von Bismarck-Schönhausen (née Strader; February 5, 1897 – July 10, 1983)

Salvador Dalí - Portrait of Mrs. Harrison Williams, 1943.  Oil on canvas, 91.8 x 61.4 cm.  Private Collection.

Wiki biography HERE. 

Transgressive Children's Television Advertisements (content altered by a jokester)

Subversive Swedish Children's Television Programming (click "Watch on Youtube")

What happened to Pippi Longstocking?  Click HERE.

Res ipsa loquitur II

Image

Photograph

Cocktail Party

Modernist Aesthetics

Affluence

The Appearance of Affluence

Res ipsa loquitur – The thing itself speaks

"Golden Hair" poem by James Joyce (Madcap Laughs by Syd Barrett released January 3, 1970, 56 years ago)

Happy Magic New Year

Paul Klee - In the Magic Mirror, 1934

Gumby's Close Encounter

A play of color, shadows, perspective and a defamiliarized sense of place

Max Beckmann - Winding path in the Black Forest, 1936

Arthurian Legend: Notes and Sources

Arthurian Legend

British Library Article
Project Gutenberg Complete Text of Thomas Mallory's Le Morte Darthur   

 

English Sources

 

Geoffrey of Monmouth, History of the Kings of Britain (Historia regum Britanniae)  (12th century, 1135-39)

 

Wace of Jersey

Layamon

Tristan and Iseult  (12th century)

 

            Anglo-Norman, Inspired by Keltic Legend:

 

                        Deirdre and Naoise

 

                        Diarmuid Ua Duibhue

 

                        Grainne

 

The Pearl Poet, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (14th century)

 

French Sources

 

Chrétien de Troyes Perceval (Grail story)  (12th century)

 

“a Group of Cistercian Monks”(?), Vulgate Cycle  (1210-1230)

 

Prose Lancelot

 

Robert de Boron, Merlin (13th century)

 

“Post-Vulgate Grail Romance” (combining Arthurian Romance with the Tristan Romance)

 

(Mallory’s chief sources were these French romances)

 

 

Welsh Sources

 

Gildas, De excidio et conquest Britanniae, Fall and Conquest of Britain  (mid-6th century)

 

Nennius, Historia Brittonum, History of the Britons (9th century)

 

Annales Cambriae, Cabbrian Annals (late 9th century)

 

The Mabinogion   (12th- 13thcenturies, first English version by Charlotte Guest, 1838-49);

 

Culhwch and Olwen (12th century)

 

 

“Modern” versions and related stories

 

Thomas Mallory, Le Morte Darthur   (late 15th century)

 

Thomas Love Peacock, The Misfortunes of Elphin  (1829)

 

Sources: The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales  (chiefly in Welsh), Cambro-Briton (periodical ca. 1819); The Mabinogion (first English version by Charlotte Guest, 1838-49); Taliesin (first English version by Nash, 1858).

 

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King       (1842, 1859, 1888)

 

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Lady of Shallot”   (1832, 1842)

 

T. H. White, The Once and Future King     (1958)

 

Marion Zimmerman Bradley, The Mists of Avalon     (1982)

 

 

Themes:

 

Religion

Myth and Religion

History

Sociology

Psychology

Ethics

Anthropology (typologies)

Fantasy(?)

Nostalgia

King Arthur (Nigel Terry) and Guenevere (Cherie Lunghi) in Frank Boorman's Excalibur (1981)

One hour of soundscapes by Jean-Claude Heudin, inspired by Forbidden Planet

Matsu Basho: a poem about lightning, 17th century

A flash of lightning: 

Into the gloom 

Goes the heron's cry.

More evidence of an "imperative" to explore...

Christmas Meditation: Jonah 2

2 Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish's belly,

² And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.

³ For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.

⁴ Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

⁵ The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.

⁶ I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God.

⁷ When my soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.

⁸ They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

⁹ But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the Lord.

¹⁰ And the Lord spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.

 Jonah — Albert Pinkham Ryder

  

 

 

 

Jesus Appearing to Mary — Albert Pinkham Ryder