[NetBehaviour] Some London Now

Alan Sondheim sondheim at panix.com
Tue Jul 4 13:41:11 CEST 2017



Some London Now

Working, like Karl Marx, in the British Library.

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http://www.alansondheim.org/london321.jpg
Technological eyepod of the big London wheel.
http://www.alansondheim.org/london322.jpg
Followed by the secretive hidingplace in plain sight of
Doctor Who's Arch Enemies, the Trump-peters.
http://www.alansondheim.org/london335.jpg
While elsewhere someone's looking at someone else
only god knows why.
http://www.alansondheim.org/london352.jpg
Old master lighting obscures everything but Turner's
steam painting, described, if I remember correctly, by
Michele Serres.
http://www.alansondheim.org/london358.jpg
A pigeon accidently assigned the number of John Donne's
full portrait, of which the following, surprisingly
enough, has the bracelet of air about the wrist, reminiscent
of his poem The Relic, one of my favorite in all literature.
How did the pigeon get in there?
http://www.alansondheim.org/london359.jpg

  - Donne's The Relic -

"When my grave is broke up again
        Some second guest to entertain,
        (For graves have learn'd that woman head,
        To be to more than one a bed)
                 And he that digs it, spies
A bracelet of bright hair about the bone,
                 Will he not let'us alone, "

http://www.alansondheim.org/london360.jpg
John Donne appears... and then:

http://www.alansondheim.org/london366.jpg
Mysterious antennae with an antiquated looking, perhaps
connecting the foreign office to the nineteenth century.

We are in the British Library.




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