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15 Apr 2022

Chrysopoeia 1: Goldfinger (He's the Man - the Man with the Midas Touch)

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Shirley Eaton as Jill Masterson in Goldfinger (dir. Guy Hamilton, 1964)   For a golden girl knows when he's kissed her It's the kis...
12 Apr 2022

Look! Up in the Sky! It's a Bird! It's an Angel! It's Barbette!

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Vander Clyde (c.1899-1973) aka Barbette Photo by Man Ray (1925) / Poster by Charles Gesmar (1926) Where there is loveliness of appearance, t...
10 Apr 2022

In Praise of Notes and Parenthetical Elements (A Reply to a Critic)

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A gargoyle checking footnotes     A critic writes: One of the most irritating things about your blog is the use of endnotes.        One migh...
9 Apr 2022

Carry on Cross Dressing

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  Top: Tony Curtis as Josephine and Jack Lemmon as Daphne in Some Like It Hot (1959) Bottom: Kenneth Williams as Ethel and Charles Hawtrey ...
6 Apr 2022

On the Language of Mushrooms

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Sandy Doggett: The Mushroom Speaks (2020) fineartamerica.com     One of the stories in today's press concerns the claim made by fungi b...
3 Apr 2022

Into the Valley of the Giants with Gilbert Noon

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  Georgia O'Keeffe: Black Hills with Cedar (1941) Oil on canvas (16 x 30 in.)     Let us beware of thinking that the world is a living...
2 Apr 2022

Notes on an Edwardian Woman's Underwear (With Reference to the Case of Mrs Johanna Keighley)

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'And, oh, quick if you please Let every lady get on her chemise!'     I.   D. H. Lawrence's unfinished and, until 1984, unpubli...
31 Mar 2022

Notes on 'The Ladybird' (Pt. 2)

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If I were a little ladybird And had four little wings I'd fly to thee -     This post is a continuation of Notes on 'The Ladybird...

Notes on 'The Ladybird' (Pt. 1)

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Wenn ich ein Marienkäfer wär' Und auch vier Flüglein hätt', Flög' ich zu dir -   I.    The first work by D. H. Lawrence that I e...