#chatterton

[make-death-proud-to-takeus]

‘Chatterton‘, Henry Wallis, 1856

[estherdedlock]

One of the many delights of reading The Secret History is hunting down all the obscure quotes and references that Donna Tartt just throws into the mix. You never know what you’re going to find. For example, I looked into this:

“Théophile Gautier, writing about the effect of Vigny’s Chatterton on the youth of Paris, said that in the nineteenth-century night one could practically hear the crack of the solitary pistols.”

And I got...Francis Abernathy!!

Seriously though, it’s Henry Wallis’ 1856 painting, “The Death of Chatterton,” but come on. It’s freakin’ Francis. I’m telling you, TSH is just a bottomless book. You’ll never plumb its depths. 

[ozu-teapot]

Really haven’t been “feeling it” this month. Still enjoying films as usual, but feel very disengaged from tumblr and to be fair disengaged from all other internet-related activity too, and so-called real life for that matter, outside the microcosm of home and immediate family. A general kind of world-weariness. I’ve gone through phases like this for the past couple of years and I start to think “is this the end?” (of my tumblr career) but I eventually drag myself out of it. This one has been pretty bad though.

Still, I have some free time coming up. Firstly the four day Platinum Jubilee bank holiday (fanx yer Majesty!) although I have to work on the Saturday (fuck you Royal Mail!), and that leads into a couple of weeks of leave so I might be more inclined to blog when I don’t feel half dead every day!

[revedebeatrice]

Opera arias with sad poet energy

“Pourquoi me réveiller” (Werther, Massenet)

“Kuda, kuda, vi udalilis” (Eugene Onegin, Tchaikovsky)

“Che piu mi resta! Tu sola a me rimani” (Chatterton, Leoncavallo)

“Come un bel dì di maggio” (Andrea Chénier, Giordano)

[notmanthelessbutnaturemore]

For the day that’s in it lads!

LOOK at the similarities! Chatterton’s poetry ripped up on the floor cause he thought he was a failure - the titles of Byron’s greatest hits surrounded by laurel leaves below him. The view of bright sky beyond Chatterton’s window because it was the beginning of something (Romanticism babyyy) and the darkness looming beyond Byron because it was the end of something!! The parallelssssssss!!

[my-art-encounters]

Chatterton, Henry Wallis 1856

Tate Britian, London

Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight

[aura-eden]

Henry Wallis, Chatterton, 1856

[amertumedelamer]

C’est un souvenir de 2018, d’un petit carnet richement rempli, qui a connu une exposition chez Island, à Bruxelles (c’était en septembre).

Je sors ça avec du retard, et de manière fragmentée ; disons que c’est comme le vin, ou le fromage... J’espère que ce présent est d’autant plus savoureux qu’il apparaît sous vos yeux avec cette latence.

Accompagné de délicats bisous,