Monday, April 11, 2022

From Akenfield

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).

comments: 5

Fresca said...

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.

Michael Leddy said...

Yep. The spirit of graffiti.

Have you seen Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams?

Fresca said...

I have not seen that.
Herzong 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

Fresca said...

OK--all is forgiven, Werner, for agreeing to be ridiculous in animated form at 2:00 in the clip above.

Michael Leddy said...

Another reason to forgive him anything: the short film he made about texting while driving: From One Second to the Next.