Farther down the page there are "the unwonted curls of Miss Jane Wackles who had kept her head during the whole of the preceding day screwed up tight in a yellow play-bill..." OLD CURIOSITY SHOP p54

I have repaired myself to Dickens, and landed in Chapter 8 (of 73). The time is somewhere around 1840 - a 'Ladies' Seminary' where are taught
"English grammar, composition, geography, and the use of dumb bells (Melissa Wackles)
writing, arithmetic, dancing, music, and general fascination," (Sophie Wackles)
"the art of needle-work, marking, and samplery" (Jane Wackles)
"corporal punishment, fasting and other tortures and terrors." (Mrs. Wackles). . . . . OLD CURIOSITY SHOP, p.54

Now's the time to prepare blank (but personalized) travel journals as gifts or for yourself next yr. Fascinating to me were quotatns x famous travellers GOTO Quote Garden - 'travel'

Fifty years later.
"In the end, Rilke, Kafka, and Camus pose a question, seconded by Dostoevsky and by Sartre's plays and fiction: could it be that at least some part of what the existentialists attempt to do is best done in art?" Walter Kaufman p.49 EXISTENTIALISM FROM DOSTOEVSKY TO SARTRE (1956).

"In its narrowest formulation it is a metaphysical doctrine, arguing as it does that any definition of man's essence must follow, not precede, an estimation of his existence."
back covr of a Walter Kaufman, 1956, now 25 cents paperback acquired over the weekend

"I picture to myself these same canvases between those of the sunflowers, which would thus form lamp brackets or candelabra beside them, the same size, and so the whole would be made up of seven to nine canvases." LT574, . . 28 January 1889. Vincent van Gogh
And what do they flank?
a painting "like a colour lithograph from a cheap shop. A woman* in green with orange hair stands out against a background of green with pink flowers. Now these discordant sharps of crude pink, crude orange and crude green are softened by flats of red and green."
(Timms' italics)
*La Berceuse: Madame Roulin

6. Notes - Sandra Nunnerley AD's page 260. Dates of first two ptgs -- 1987 and 1966. Twelve foot ceilings and a merging of two apts, N.Y's Upper East Side.
Ever wonder what your art could be flanked by?
A. Richard Serra 'My Curves Are Not Mad' . Large - white bg, black mass -- to its Left a small but vibrant work, to its Right a large almost two-dimensional African (?) sculpture;
B. Kenneth Noland 'Diamond'. A narrow diamond, maybe 7 ft. high, 2 ft. wide. In 1960s pastels: To its L a 7ft. mirror above 3ft. high fireplace mass. To its R, three ceiling- floor windows, ceiling-floor drapes.
C.Kelly McLane 'Bad Day for Meth Labs #3 and #4' (2003). To its L, 11ft. high "liberating doors". Both L and R - matching, wide, lampshades. Directly below, a pillow mass approx. 5' x 5'.
D. Language: 'interior architecture' and in Architectural Digest now, references to wide use of (20th) "mid-century art".

p.233 from a book by S.R.Suleiman. Subtitle: 'Encounters with Contemporary Art and Literature'
"The ethical paradox of the postmodern condition is that it restores to agents the fulness of moral choice and responsibility while simultaneously depriving them of the comfort of the universal guidance that modern self-confidence once promised. Ethical tasks of individuals grow while the socially produced resources to fulfil them shrink. Moral responsibility comes together with the loneliness of moral choice." Zygmunt Bauman

5. Notes - Jacques Grange
Departure from format laying out Architectural Digest's annual feature -- designers' own homes. A Paris apt. -- once belonging to Colette, novelist (d.1954)
But from this, a story: "It can come out of the blue, to be Executor of an Estate a half world away. Appointed by someone you met (no. of times, or...)."
PLOT/ SUB PLOT : Use magazine article p.254 as Setting.
Look down from apt. window. Note a plane tree and lush? ruined? garden;
reflect on others' eclectic tastes;
wander. Finger console, club chair. Choose photo or book. Sit.
Styles: Art Deco and/or 18th, 19th, 20th centuries;
consult: File (contains cc Will and lists).
Write: "TO DO"

Just finished the prototype for a 'signature' (16pp) intro to the Jingaro. Limited edition - ten - five of which will go public to first- comers. $50.00 pkge includes edition and visual miscellany. Available Dec. 01. Thanks for your interest, T