I'll be posting here my views, news and opinions about things that take my fancy ( Saying this is pointless I guess. Its a blog. What else does one expect?).
I think this whole blog business is looked upon in certain circles (of which I was/sometimes am a part of) as some sort of intellectual flagellation to satisfy the craving of the ego and consoling your id with thoughts of imminent web2.0 super-stardom (Or is it the other way round?). I dont subscribe to that view. You can see that I have referred to myself - "I" only five times in five sentences, while emphasizing "You" , dear reader, a hell of a lot more. Whatever. I just needed some text to see how the layout of the blog looks. Is it pleasing to the sight? Eye-catching? Is it eye popping? Do the colors match your pants? Would you like some tea to go along with your pants?
The painting you might have noticed is "The Nightmare" by Henry Fuseli (or Fussli) . I think it suits what I'm saying, in a round-a-bout manner probably. One reason is my liking for weird, absurd connections, hidden meanings and such.
In the case of "The Nightmare", the painting shows a sleeping girl whose head and arms are hanging over the edge of the bed. On the girl’s stomach sits an incubus. An incubus is a grotesque- looking male demon, believed to have sexual intercourse with women while they sleep . The word ‘incubus’ comes from the Latin ‘incubo’ meaning ‘nightmare’. In the background is an animal (Can you see it?In the corner..) on which the incubus travels, known as the ‘Nightmare’. The animal, although we cant see all of it, presumably is a horse. It would seem a good play on words that the incubus, a creature which visits women in their sleep, (therefore, presumably at night), would travel on a mare at night time.
But thats not the point. More importantly Fűssli was commissioned to create this piece to illustrate a poem by G.G. Foster, also called The Nightmare. Also Ernest Jones , psychoanalyst, compatriot of Freud, and his biographer used a version of The Nightmare as a frontispiece for his classic work "On the Nightmare", dealing with , not unexpectedly, nightmares.
And it seemed apt to use The Nightmare as frontispiece to kick off a blog which apparently professes to deal with thoughts. Maybe not nightmares, but thanks for reading!
I think this whole blog business is looked upon in certain circles (of which I was/sometimes am a part of) as some sort of intellectual flagellation to satisfy the craving of the ego and consoling your id with thoughts of imminent web2.0 super-stardom (Or is it the other way round?). I dont subscribe to that view. You can see that I have referred to myself - "I" only five times in five sentences, while emphasizing "You" , dear reader, a hell of a lot more. Whatever. I just needed some text to see how the layout of the blog looks. Is it pleasing to the sight? Eye-catching? Is it eye popping? Do the colors match your pants? Would you like some tea to go along with your pants?
The painting you might have noticed is "The Nightmare" by Henry Fuseli (or Fussli) . I think it suits what I'm saying, in a round-a-bout manner probably. One reason is my liking for weird, absurd connections, hidden meanings and such.
In the case of "The Nightmare", the painting shows a sleeping girl whose head and arms are hanging over the edge of the bed. On the girl’s stomach sits an incubus. An incubus is a grotesque- looking male demon, believed to have sexual intercourse with women while they sleep . The word ‘incubus’ comes from the Latin ‘incubo’ meaning ‘nightmare’. In the background is an animal (Can you see it?In the corner..) on which the incubus travels, known as the ‘Nightmare’. The animal, although we cant see all of it, presumably is a horse. It would seem a good play on words that the incubus, a creature which visits women in their sleep, (therefore, presumably at night), would travel on a mare at night time.
But thats not the point. More importantly Fűssli was commissioned to create this piece to illustrate a poem by G.G. Foster, also called The Nightmare. Also Ernest Jones , psychoanalyst, compatriot of Freud, and his biographer used a version of The Nightmare as a frontispiece for his classic work "On the Nightmare", dealing with , not unexpectedly, nightmares.
And it seemed apt to use The Nightmare as frontispiece to kick off a blog which apparently professes to deal with thoughts. Maybe not nightmares, but thanks for reading!
Oh, and yeah I'll be posting some stuff, say, once in a while... until then,
We Await Silent Tristero's Empire.
We Await Silent Tristero's Empire.
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Good for people to know.
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