He is identified only as Davie, born in 1887, “who cannot read or write a word and who insists that he has nothing to say”:
Ronald Blythe, Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village (1969).
Monday, April 11, 2022
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Oh, wow--I just read an essay about the cave art at Lascaux, so I have hand prints in mind. Seems to be an elementary mark we make: I was here.
ReplyDeleteYep. The spirit of graffiti.
ReplyDeleteHave you seen Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams?
I have not seen that.
ReplyDeleteHerzong kinda gets up my nose.
BUT... I want to see the opening of Penguins of Madagascar where, I just read, he does a mock doc voice-over cameo!
Oh--I just found it--must watch now:
https://slate.com/culture/2014/10/werner-herzog-penguins-of-madagascar-cameo-clip-shows-the-german-auteur-as-documentary-narrator-video.html
OK--all is forgiven, Werner, for agreeing to be ridiculous in animated form at 2:00 in the clip above.
ReplyDeleteAnother reason to forgive him anything: the short film he made about texting while driving: From One Second to the Next.
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