Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag. Are you holdin’ on? Rhett
The Lovers’ Chronicle
Dear Muse,
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Pale Love, Pale Rider
one for Jett…
a year to the day
since she went away
not a stretch to say
barley survived
but still standin’
no more killin’ time
now time for doin’
as should be done…
“But you must care.
You must hold on.”
i told you
never hold on
why hold on
but, dang
you were right
at least partly
the first time
i saw you
i knew…
two people
who believe
above all else
one must be,
to hold the other
once, in the arms,
tell me, tell me
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restless
somethin’ callin’, pullin’…
“But you must care. You must.
You must hold on to something.”
never hold on
why hold on
everything held on to… fades
“The first time I saw you
I knew…”
everything would burn
two people who love
the dream above all else
will soon vanish together
one must be, to hold
the other one
and the pain in bein’;
that is what will be
once, in the arms,
pressed, feelin’, sayin’;
“Tell me. Tell me!”
a song of the sea
a sad day
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Today is the birthday of Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (Ornans, Doubs ; 10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877 La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland); painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the Romanticism of the previous generation of visual artists. His independence set an example that was important to later artists, such as the Impressionists and the Cubists. Courbet occupies an important place in 19th-century French painting as an innovator and as an artist willing to make bold social statements through his work. His paintings challenged convention by depicting peasants and workers, often on a grand scale traditionally reserved for paintings of religious or historical subjects. He also painted landscapes, seascapes, hunting scenes, nudes and still lifes. He was imprisoned for six months in 1871 for his involvement with the Paris Commune, and lived in exile in Switzerland from 1873 until his death.
Gallery
Courbet c. 1860s
(portrait by Étienne Carjat)
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Self-portrait with Black Dog, 1842
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Self-portrait, 1842
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The Cellist, Self-portrait, 1847
- Portraits
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Portrait of Paul Ansout, c. 1842–43
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Portrait of H. J. van Wisselingh, 1846
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Zélie Courbet, 1847
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Portrait of Baudelaire, 1848
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Proudhon and his children, 1865
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Portrait of Countess Karoly, 1865
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Spanish Woman, 1854
- Landscapes
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Cliffs at Etretat, After the Storm, 1870
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The Wave, 1870
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Sea Coast in Normandy, 1867
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The Pont Ambroix Languedoc, 1857
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Stream in the Jura Mountains (The Torrent), 1872–73, Honolulu Museum of Art
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Snow effect, c. 1860s
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Grotto of Sarrazine near Nans-sous-Sainte-Anne, c. 1875
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The Castle of Chillon, 1874
- Nudes
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Les Bas Blancs, (Woman with White Stockings), 1864, Barnes Foundation
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Woman with a Parrot, 1866, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Femme nue couchée, 1862
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Le Sommeil (Sleep), 1866, Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris
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Young Bather, 1866
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The Origin of the World (L’Origine du monde), 1866, Musée d’Orsay, Paris
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The Bather, 1868, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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The Source, 1868, Musée d’Orsay
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The Hammock, 1844
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The Sculptor, 1845
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After Dinner at Ornans, 1849
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The Stone Breakers, 1849
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Farmers of Flagey on the Return From the Market, 1850, Museum of Art, Besançon
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The Meeting (“Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet”), 1854, Musée Fabre, Montpellier
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The Grain Sifters (Les Cribleuses de blé), 1854
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The Trellis, 1862, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
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Fox In The Snow, 1860, Dallas Museum of Art
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Girl with Seagulls, 1865
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The Greyhounds of the Comte de Choiseul, 1866
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The kill of deer, 1867, Museum of Art, Besancon
Today is the birthday of Edwin Arnold (Gravesend, Gravesham, Kent, 10 June 1832 – 24 March 1904 London); poet and journalist, perhaps best known for his work The Light of Asia.
Sir Edwin was married three times. His first wife was Katherine Elizabeth Biddulph, of London, who died in 1864. Next he married Jennie Channing of Boston, who died in 1889. In his later years Arnold resided for some time in Japan, and his third wife, Tama Kurokawa, was Japanese.
We are the voices of the wandering wind,
Which moan for rest and rest can never find;
Lo! as the wind is, so is mortal life,
A moan, a sigh, a sob, a storm, a strife.
- The Deva’s Song
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