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William Hogarth The Analysis of Beauty (London 1753), note Hogarth’s assumption of classical precedent for the serpentine line [p.92]: ...which taste, I am persuaded, my reader will now conceive to have been entirely owing to the perfect knowledge the ancients must have had of the use of the precise serpentine-line.

The most excellent virtue is the brilliant and calm flow of culture. Those with fine minds play in a clear lotus lake. Through this excellent path, a song line sweet like the pollen’s honey, May they sip the fragrant dew of glorious knowledge. ----- H.H. The l7th Karmapa

I really love you and I mean you the star above you, crystal blue Well, oh baby, my hairs on end about you... I wouldn't see you and I love to I fly above you, yes I do well, oh baby, my hairs on end about you... Floating, bumping, noses dodge a tooth the fins a luminous fangs all 'round the clown is dark below the boulders hiding all the sunlight's good for us 'Cause we're the fishes and all we do the move about is all we do well, oh baby, my hairs on end about you... Floating, bumping, noses dodge a tooth the fins a luminous fangs all 'round the clown is dark below the boulders hiding all the sunlight's good for us 'Cause we're the fishes and all we do the move about is all we do well, oh baby, my hairs on end about you... I really love you and I mean you the star above you, crystal blue Well, oh baby, my hairs on end about you... - Syd Barrett - Terrapin

To lay me down once more To lay me down with my head in sparkling clover Let the world go by all lost in dreaming To lay me down one last time To lay me down To be with you once more To be with you with our bodies close together Let the world go by like clouds a-streaming To lay me down one last time To lay me down To lay me down To lay me down To lay me down One last time To lay me down To lie with you once more to lie with you with our dreams entwined together To lie beside you my love still sleeping to tell sweet lies one last time and say goodnight to lay me down, to lay me down to lay me down one last time to lay me down to lay me down one last time to lay me down - (Hunter/Garcia) The Cowboy Junkies cover

From the archives ... but in flower at the moment ... heavenly scent!

Alive Alone - Chemical Brothers Feat. Beth Orton Happy Sunday to all!

Anemone nemorosa 'Robinsoniana' flowering in my garden at the moment.

Southbank

The Ghost City