Alexander McQueen - Savage Beauty

28th June 2015
What's to be said...

“I came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago. I never really fitted in. I don’t want to fit in. And now people are buying into that.”

Old Vic - Kafka's The Trial

Friday 27th June
Rory Kinnear
Joseph K
The Trial


I've always loved this segment...

“Before he dies, all his experiences in these long years gather themselves in his head to one point, a question he has not yet asked the doorkeeper. He waves him nearer, since he can no longer raise his stiffening body. The doorkeeper has to bend low towards him, for the difference in height between them has altered much to the man's disadvantage. "What do you want to know now?" asks the doorkeeper; "you are insatiable." "Everyone strives to reach the Law," says the man, "so how does it happen that for all these many years no one but myself has ever begged for admittance?" The doorkeeper recognizes that the man has reached his end, and to let his failing senses catch the words roars in his ear: "No one else could ever be admitted here, since this gate was made only for you. I am now going to shut it.” 

Colin Self - Artist

Went to the Norwich 'artbootsale' today. We met some really lovely people, and there at the end a quiet unassuming chap, who offered to sign some prints. I was thinking why would this chap want to sign some 'Colin Self' originals. Obvious really, it was Colin Self. I was so chuffed about meeting him, I've appreciated his work for so many years. Brought a print and maybe he'll send me another!

John Updike - Rabbit, Run

In long patches of forgotten pine plantation the needle-hushed floor of land glides up an up, on and on, under endless tunnels of dead green and you seem to have passed through silence into something worse. And then, coming upon a a patch of sunlight the branches neglect to keep out or upon a softened stone-filled cellar pit dug be some brave and monstrous settler centuries ago, you become vividly frightened, as if this other sign of life will call attention to yourself, and the menace of the trees will become active.

The Third Man - Graham Greene

Harry Lime

Victims? Don't be melodramatic. Look down there. Tell me. Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever? If I offered you twenty thousand pounds for every dot that stopped, would you really, old man, tell me to keep my money, or would you calculate how many dots you could afford to spare? Free of income tax, old man. Free of income tax - the only way you can save money nowadays.

Ran Gas Hill

Ran up Gas Hill this evening none stop!! Though did stop at the top to gasp and gasp and gasp

F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby

Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby

"I must have stood for a few moments listening to the whip and snap of the curtains and the groan of a picture on the wall."

Embalmers like a pretty corpse

When a wife of a distinguished man dies, or any woman who happens to be beautiful or well known, her body is not given to the embalmers immediately, but only after the lapse of three or four days. This is a precautionary measure to prevent the embalmers from violating the corpse.

Herodotus 2:89