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The Man who Planted the Trees
I borrowed the dvd of this award winning animated film of Jean Giorno's illustrated story and watched it yesterday ( Read more... ) -
The 'end of an era'
It is Sandy’s retiring party today from the directorship of the Prison Phoenix Trust and though the ‘end of an era’ is a cliché, it is one that is, I feel, appropriate ( Read more... ) -
Lost in the jungle
I bought David Grann's 'The Lost City of Z' yesterday and was reading it on the train home ( Read more... ) -
Morris Graves recovered
Amongst the treasures uncovered as I recovered books held in storage at my mother's these past years were my books on Morris Graves.
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Coming from where?
Ordered a new book on the friendship between Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo and Kati Horna and in doing so found this film on You Tube on Carrington's work and this on 'The Guardian' website: http://gu.com/p/2hnxqRead more... ) -
Interview woes
The pitfalls of long distance interviews (on the telephone) came home today ( Read more... )
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