The Runaway Pancake
at D.L. Ashliman's thorough and scholarly
Folklore and Mythology
Electronic Texts

The Goodman of Wastness
a selkie tale,
at Folk and Fairy Tales from Around the World, a wonderful gathering of traditional stories.

Selkies
at Romantic Scotland

The Silky Wife
nested in Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts
in turn nested in Celtic Folklore
whose volumes are themselves a bit of the world of Legends and Sagas
(Arabian Nights, Edda, Kalevala, Cid, Roland, Ring of The Niblung, Grimm's, Shah Namah, more...)
which is itself, like a galaxy within a still greater wheel, part of The Internet Sacred Text Archive
"This is a quiet place in cyberspace devoted to religious tolerance and scholarship"

{still meditating on Elaine Morgan's hypothesis, the unfortunately titled Aquatic Ape Theory, which makes it sound like our ancestors might have been ducks.
whether it's true or not, in the context of her work, or true in a larger more atavistic sense, the way dragons map onto dinosaurs, or just another human dream, I don't care. I had a vision one time of fresh water seas, lakes as wide as the great oceans, and people living in and on them. it doesn't matter to me about the validity, the viability. this world, as it is, now, is the result of an absence of dreams, and dreamers.}

{the above research expedited by Mozilla 1.4 Beta}

VOCATUS ATQUE
NON VOCATUS
DEUS ADERIT

(Invoked or not invoked, the god is present.)

epitaph of Carl Jung
from the scholarly and inspiring Last Words: "A collection of famous last words, epitaphs, obituaries, farewells, and last stands"

this guy is armed
parent directory/images at russianphoto.com

Johnson estimated in 1992 that he had built 60 violins, in the process working with such distinguished players as Jack Glatzner and Leonie Darby (one of Johnson's closest friends). He gave her a violin in 1985 after her own one was smashed by burglars. She later wrote that it was "the most magnificent violin I have ever played or seen", and played it with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Salzburg Festival of Music and the Leningrad and Finnish State orchestras.

John Godschall Johnson, Violin maker, 1912-2003
obituary in the Sydney Morning Herald

"I saw on the ubiquitous CNN, a piece on a visit to Nepal by HRH The Prince of Wales a couple of years ago. He was touched and appalled by the plight of returning child prostitutes from the streets of Bombay. I had visited a wild cat sanctuary at about the same time and decided to combine both sentiments in the song Sanctuary for the Secret Language Of Birds album. The first part of the song is on the subject of the little girls (and boys): the second on the plight of the small wild cats of the world, often rejected by private and zoological keepers. Well, aren't I a big softie, then?"

the dithyrambic hirsute flautist himself, Ian Anderson, at Folking.com, wherein you may find a downloadable rendition of the tune "Sanctuary"

I lay in bed daydreaming for five or ten minutes.

Suddenly, I realized that I had everything necessary to build a 3D input device right there in the room with me!

I built the device, which I called the Tricorder, out of two analog joysticks, a Super Pinky rubber ball, a bunch of rubber bands, and some clamps.

Drew Olbrich
tricorder epiphany
hypercube exegesis

more from Biblioteque Nationale de France:
photograph "A l'homme Arme : 25, Rue des Blancs-Manteaux" by Eugene Atget 1900

there must be a few thousand photos by Atget here, including this one, of a horse-drawn tram
and this one, of the Cabaret de L'Enfer

musique pour rire

at the National Library of France

Trent Bosch


Vessel of Illusion 1999

Box elder, cherry; height 20 cm
at The Fine Art of Wood
at DIA

William Carlos Williams at Notable Unitarians

somewhere at the nmaa-ryder site:

keep looking

Pink

also:
Mickey

here

Thus he himself is entangled. Then the widow of Eli's brother comes up to New York from Virginia ostensibly just to visit, but, in quite genuine affection, she hopes that Eli will come back with her. She is played by Kim Basinger, tenderly convincing in this woman's pity for the life that Eli lives and in her longing for him.

glowing review by Stanley Kauffmann of new Al Pacino movie, People I Know.
tnr May 09

...We had to buy smaller forks,
smaller chairs, stop talking.

You took the saltshakers
off. I decided I'd only make
soft foods so we wouldn't have
to use knives anymore.

It kept on shrinking for days,
the butter taking over the dinner
plates, the green beans looking
longer and mean,

until it was just a thin slip
passed between us, a note...

Ada Limon
The Lessing Table
Poetry Daily May 23 2003

Mariana Yampolsky

Caricia
at PHOTOGRAPHS DO NOT BEND GALLERY

great anecdote about Gene Krupa getting up with a fool in 1941 around the color of Roy Eldridge's skin. also a bunch of .ram's of Krupa's band. including Anita O'Day.

Legendary director Martin Scorsese's next project is a biography of Bob Dylan tentatively titled "Bob Dylan Anthology Project." The movie is currently slated for release in 2005.

MTV

informant38 unplugged:

LAMASHTU DAUGHTER OF ANU, HER FIRST NAME IS THAT, THE SECOND IS: SISTER OF THE GODS OF THE STREETS, THE THIRD IS: DAGGER WHICH SMASHES THE HEAD, ETC. UNTIL, THE SEVENTH IS: BE EXORCISED BY THE GREAT GODS

WHAT AM I TO DO (FOR MY CHILD WITH 6 TOES)

Having a supernumerary toe was seen to be a blessing on one foot, but a curse on the other. The earliest representation of humans, the plaster figures from Jordan have 6 toes, as had all the brothers of Goliath.

And then when I worked for Robert Graves, one of the marvelous things about that experience was the way Robert worked all the time. Something would interrupt, or someone would come to the door, and Robert would deal with it and then go right back to work. Robert did everything in longhand. I was impressed by the way he worked. He was a wonderful model. One of the great things for Robert was that there was no telephone. Eventually he had a wind-up phone in one of the corners of the house. But for quite some time, if you wanted to get in touch with Robert, you called in town and a message was sent. The telephone is a tremendous distraction. For years I didn't have one, and I don't think I've ever really gotten used to it.

I've found that the best thing for me is to insist that some part of the day--and for me, it's the morning until about two in the afternoon--be dedicated to writing. I go into my room and shut the door, and that's that. You have to make exceptions, of course, but you just stick to it, and then it becomes a habit, and I think it's a valuable one. Flaubert said that inspiration consists of sitting down at the same table at the same time every day, and I think that's the way one should look at it. If you're waiting for lightning to strike a stump, you're going to sit there for the rest of the your life.

WS Merwin interview at The Pedestal

link path from the unwavering :::wood s lot:::