LEANDOR'S BROODINGS (pensées)

Sunday, 7 August 2016

REMEMBERED PAST - IMAGES - NO PARTICULAR ORDER OF PLACE OR TIME

Cranes beach - Ipswich
Summer Love

Blue Heron - Old mill pond Rockport MA

Post Prandial Libation - Rialto

Ely Cathedral

Marsh at Essex MA

Erudite Cat

Sailing Sandy Bay Rockport

The "Bitch" being useful!

Looking Innocent

London from my Club Room at O&C

Excellent Libations - Sdecar

Old Lovers

"He smelled of cigarettes and whisky - the smell of youth and Cambridge"

Flirting

King's Chapel Cambridge from the river

Ely Cathedral at dusk

Most sexy - Seductress

Brandy - The drink of MEN

Farwell at Houghton - Harvard

Lord's - Varsity Cricket Match

Books do furnish a room

Winning Colours - Lent Boat

The Scholar

Boathouse on the Charles River - Cambridge

Tuesday, 2 August 2016

IMAGES TRIP TO THE NORTH SHORE - ESSEX - ROCKPORT - IPSWICH

MARSH ESSEX

FRONT BEACH ROCKPORT

CRANES BEACH IPSWICH

HALIBUT PT SAILING

THE OLD MILL ROCKPORT

INNER HARBOUR - MOTIF I Rockport

BLUE HERON - MILL POND ROCKPORT

Monday, 25 July 2016

BORGES - ON LIBRARIES - READING & WRITING

BORGES

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”

“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”

“Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.”

“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”

“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.”

“The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.”

“When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation."

“Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.”

“A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.”

“Life itself is a quotation.”

And you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning

Le Lecteur

And company doesn’t mean security.

And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts
And presents aren’t promises,

And you begin to accept your defeats
With your head up and your eyes open
With the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child,

After a while you learn…
That even sunshine burns if you get too much.

With every good-bye you learn.”

“Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.”