Wednesday, July 06, 2011
Current Favourite Sentence
In 1872 she published the first English translation of the Communist Manifesto and tried to persuade Karl Marx that the goals of Spiritualism were the same as those of the International Workingman's Association.
Current Favourite Sentences
In fact, Bergman was a voracious film watcher. Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell, author of the Wallander novels and married to one of Bergman's daughters, was also in Fårö, and he told me about the screenings his father-in-law would host every day at 3pm in the state-of-the-art cinema he had built in a converted farmhouse (I saw a movie there later: Bergman's front-row chair, complete with cushion and foot stool, is left reverentially unoccupied). Mankell remembers the director's special fondness for the remake of Ocean's 11 – "Jesus!" said Bergman as the credits rolled, "we need to see this again next week."
Tuesday, July 05, 2011
Cy Twombly, Jr. (1928-2011)
The Bay of Naples (1961). More info here. A good example of nominative determinism: could this picture be any more twombly?
Saturday, July 02, 2011
Museo del Romanticismo
The Museo del Romanticismo is hidden away down a backstreet, and is a reconstructed nineteenth-century house. It's beautiful, and full of creepy dolls, two things that are usually incompatible.
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