You seem to be - just an ordinary person... and by that I don't mean to be at all derogatory! You've had your bad times like us all, and now I hope the good times prevail and are most of the time!
Where did you find your love of art and words? Did you have parents that enjoy those things? And now studying for an English degree.. Lit and Lang? Sounds like fun and the sort of thing I ought to try. I did want to do a History but a mature grant I didn't get! Still. I'd rather to Eng lit and lang. MUCH rather. Is it Open University? Oh good luck.. and oh dear, Dickens... lordy I don't want to plough through him again! I spose the childer are now older and less distracting? How many? oooh you sound such a super person. I bet you're a splendid Mum!
I agree with almost all of what you say about these people ...
I SO enjoy Dali.. he makes me 'understand' in a very odd way. Some of Picasso.. just some. I've just bought myself a Klimt bracelet! Expensive but... Klimt! Just drool over his ink sketches. But I can 'feel' painters - El Greco - all those edges in the colours and brushstrokes.... oh so many. I'm a Renaissance girl really... Holbein's graphite portraits and all those Dutch interiors and oh dammit ALL OF IT... can spend for ever in the National Portrait gallery. But I'm just a 'discoverer' as my life has not been prescribed or aided, it's just been - oh dammit why didn't I have GOOGLE when I was twenty or thirty... or Amazon to buy my beloved books for a penny secondhand. My life proscribed any artistic education being too busy surviving. At last I am free now to find my way in the forest of joys, being the last of my line, and single again.
Gosh I'm so glad that house had a superhero... it badly needs not just one, rather more I fear. Marc Quinn doing that? good greef! makes me think of Tony Hancock and The Blood Donor... 'an armful!' Lordy, I sincerely trust he didn't try to do it all at once.... no, of course not. But yes, I can sort of understand that - odd but interesting underthorts.
Got to shorten this... or stop talking so much! shall split it so you can bin it in two bits!
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Date: 2014-08-27 02:03 pm (UTC)From:Where did you find your love of art and words? Did you have parents that enjoy those things? And now studying for an English degree.. Lit and Lang? Sounds like fun and the sort of thing I ought to try. I did want to do a History but a mature grant I didn't get! Still. I'd rather to Eng lit and lang. MUCH rather. Is it Open University? Oh good luck.. and oh dear, Dickens... lordy I don't want to plough through him again! I spose the childer are now older and less distracting? How many? oooh you sound such a super person. I bet you're a splendid Mum!
I agree with almost all of what you say about these people ...
I SO enjoy Dali.. he makes me 'understand' in a very odd way. Some of Picasso.. just some. I've just bought myself a Klimt bracelet! Expensive but... Klimt! Just drool over his ink sketches. But I can 'feel' painters - El Greco - all those edges in the colours and brushstrokes.... oh so many. I'm a Renaissance girl really... Holbein's graphite portraits and all those Dutch interiors and oh dammit ALL OF IT... can spend for ever in the National Portrait gallery. But I'm just a 'discoverer' as my life has not been prescribed or aided, it's just been - oh dammit why didn't I have GOOGLE when I was twenty or thirty... or Amazon to buy my beloved books for a penny secondhand. My life proscribed any artistic education being too busy surviving. At last I am free now to find my way in the forest of joys, being the last of my line, and single again.
Gosh I'm so glad that house had a superhero... it badly needs not just one, rather more I fear. Marc Quinn doing that? good greef! makes me think of Tony Hancock and The Blood Donor... 'an armful!' Lordy, I sincerely trust he didn't try to do it all at once.... no, of course not. But yes, I can sort of understand that - odd but interesting underthorts.
Got to shorten this... or stop talking so much! shall split it so you can bin it in two bits!