Notes for the Curious

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    19. sij

    New Notes for the Curious essay: 'Earth tides, night calls and the ghosts of the deep midwinter - an after-dark wander in the company of lost deserts, nocturnal hunters and spectral ammonites'. Thanks to for the use of her paintings.

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  2. NEW GRAVE GOODS What 5 things would you take to the grave? We ask award winning writer and all round splendid human being Samantha Harvey to choose her Grave Goods.

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  3. Rumour has it that with a powerful microscope, you can make out the figure of Eric Ravilious waving to himself from the train as it passes under the Westbury Horse, and vice versa.

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  4. For new followers who may have missed some of the Grave Goods interviews, here's a small selection, with many more at the website -

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  5. 2. velj

    Four hill figures by Ravilious. Top left to bottom left: The Long Man of Wilmington, The Cerna Abbas Giant, The Westbury Horse, and The Vale of the White Horse. All 1939.

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  6. 2. velj

    Two views of Mount Caburn. Left: E. Ravilious 'Mount Caburn', 1935. Right: A Digital Elevation Model of the same, generated from LiDAR data. The peak in the Ravilious painting is in the top left of the DEM.

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  7. 31. sij

    '. . . those little ancestors with orange bellies and gilt eyes who are privileged to experience the forgotten rhythm of saurian life.’ Llewelyn Powys, A Pond. 1935. Illustration from the fabled 'Brehms Tierleben'.

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  8. 30. sij

    I'm aware that Thomas was writing of a metaphorical glasshouse, and Ravilious' painting is of a literal one, but I thought a cheery picture balanced Thomas' somewhat bleak imagery.

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  9. 30. sij

    I built myself a house of glass It took me years to make it: And I was proud. But now, alas! Would God someone would break it. But it looks too magnificent. No neighbour casts a stone From where he dwells, in tenement Or palace of glass, alone. Edward Thomas See img for details

    Geraniums and Carnations, Eric Ravilious
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  10. 30. sij

    'We have forgotten how to respond to the poetry of life. The hollow, tinkling facade of life put up by noisy and trivial people stands between us and our deepest wealth.' Llewellyn Powys, 1913. Image: The Winding Road Home, George Callahan.

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  11. 29. sij

    'As I looked at those grape-blue eyes, fringed with their fiery gold, the bleak face seemed to crumble back into the dusk; only the eyes lived on.' J. A. Baker, on a tawny owl. The Peregrine. Image: Left: Tawny Owl by E Ravilious. Right, ditto by C F Tunnicliffe.

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  12. 29. sij

    Image - Mariano Cecowski - Hands at the Cuevas de las Manos.

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  13. 29. sij

    'Rocks are the underground resistance; the real grain that runs through the land beneath the wood. As the past is supposed to do, it haunts. It explains and will not be suppressed. And those who would lie to us if they could, mistrust it.' Ted Nield. Underlands. 2014

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  14. 29. sij

    ‘I have often thought, as I passed by it, that one day, under special dispensation, I should receive from this little pool of water, from this small, green stoup of lustral water, a whisper as to the secret of life.’ Llewelyn Powys, A Pond. 1935. Img: Ravilious, Newt Pond. 1932.

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  15. 29. sij

    'The Percheron' (1940), wood engraving by Charles Tunnicliffe (1901-1979).

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  16. 28. sij

    'Stooking', by the rather brilliant Clare Leighton, whose 'Four Hedges' has been re-issued by and contains many of her wood engravings.

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  17. 28. sij

    An altogether beguiling rendition of The Long Man of Wilmington, by Eric Ravilious (1903–1942).

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  18. 28. sij

    Wrens in Honeysuckle by G. W. Lennox Paterson (1915 – 1986).

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  19. 27. sij

    Four ponds by John Nash. Clockwise from top left to bottom left: Mill Pond Evening, 1933. The Farm Pond, 1940. Walled Pond, Little Bredy, Dorset, 1923. Ashby's Pond, 1937.

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  20. 27. sij

    'It streamed through a hedge and flung itself into a river, splashing in like a spadeful of brown earth.' J. A. Baker, writing about a hare in 'The Peregrine'. (). Image - Young Hare, Albrecht Dürer, 1502.

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  21. 26. sij

    We released 'Earth Tides, Night Calls and the Ghosts of the Deep Midwinter' to the website last week - it's a long read, so it's also available for Kindle through Amazon. There is, unfortunately, a minimum charge of 99p. It's free on the website though.

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