Whoso list to hunt by Thomas Wyatt

Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind, 

But as for me, hélas, I may no more. 

The vain travail hath wearied me so sore, 

I am of them that farthest cometh behind. 

Yet may I by no means my wearied mind 

Draw from the deer, but as she fleeth afore 

Fainting I follow. I leave off therefore, 

Sithens in a net I seek to hold the wind. 

Who list her hunt, I put him out of doubt, 

As well as I may spend his time in vain. 

And graven with diamonds in letters plain 

There is written, her fair neck round about: 

Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am, 

And wild for to hold, though I seem tame. 

Martin Moulton outside & inside

 The best model I’ve drawn lately is a 55 year old of African, Indigenous American & Western European ancestry.  He’s remarkably fit, and claims to have never been a gym rat, which I believe.  His magnificent body is the product of swimming, cycling and work in his mother’s relatively small orchard. Lifting and climbing regularly appears to do wonders.

Mimì metallurgico ferito nell'onore

(Mimi the steelworker, wounded in honor)

Lina Wertmüller, 1972

For once a film that actually depicts the difficulty and complexity of political belief for a member of the Working Class!  (My father was a skilled bender of metal tubes, a so called Pipefitter and a member of the Union, for a subcontractor of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft in East Hartford and later for Electric Boat in Groton CT, so I grew up learning of the contradictions and ironies of this situation.)  Wertmüller died today, on my birthday, and Mimi the Steelworker was my favorite of her many films.  Her work was briefly in vogue in the US when I was a student in the late nineteen seventies, but her popularity here wasn't long lived.  After The End of the World in our usual Bed in a Night full of Rain, her first film in English and shot in part in my present home city of San Francisco CA, few of her movies were released in this country.  Still, she had a long and illustrious career, the director of some 24 feature films and numerous ones for television as well.  Her husband, the brilliant production designer, Enrico Job died 13 years ago. She was 93 years old and I believe she Rests In Peace.

Georges Méliès, 8 décembre 1861 - 21 janvier 1938

Georges Méliès, le deuxième grand maître du cinéma français (après les frères Lumière) est né ce jour-là il y a 150 ans. Sa grande ère de création a duré moins de 20 ans, de 1895 à 1914, mais il n'est pas mort dans l'obscurité la plus complète.

Wuthering Heights, Chapter 24

 Linton laid on a little sofa, reading one of my books. But he would neither speak to me nor look at me, through a whole hour... and what quite confounded me, when he did open his mouth it was to utter the falsehood that I had occasioned the uproar, and Hareton was not to blame!