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Kris Kuksi - Artist / Sculptor
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Peruse his sculpture gallery - and notice the sizes (and by implication, the detail. Most sculptures coming in at less than 3 feet ...).
Link here: http://kuksi.com/artworks/sculpture/.
The Island of the Day Before - Umberto Eco
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Quite enjoyed it, amazed at the breadth of Eco's learning (or did he just make that all up...?). And how brilliantly he puts us into the mind of his characters, arguing - and convincingly (the research, I suppose), that the sun must go about the earth and that to go across the dateline is to go back into time ... I would suggest it's a brilliant recreation of the 17th Century Mind...
Chinese Vase sells for £53 Million Pounds
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And in Britain (always Britain, never France or Germany, why is that?) a couple cleaning out their parents possessions find an old vase and get it appraised. For roughly £ 1 million pounds. Not bad. Except that at auction the heavy Chinese buyers show up and splurge, read more here .... or here.
Travels in West Africa - Mary Kingsley
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"Waking up I noticed the smell in the hut was violent, from being shut up I suppose, and it had an unmistakable organic origin. Knocking the ash end off the smoldering bush-light that lay burning on the floor, I investigated, and tracked it to those bags, so I took down the biggest one, and carefully noted exactly how the tie-tie had been put around its mouth, for these things are important and often mean a lot. I then shook its contents out in my hat, for fear of losing anything of value. They were a human hand, three big toes, four eyes, two ears, and other portions of the human frame. The hand was fresh, the others only so so, and shriveled.
Replacing them I tied the bag up, and hung it up again.I subsequently learned that although the Fans will eat their fellow friendly tribesfolk, yet they like to keep a little something belonging to them as a memento. This touching train in their character I learned from Wiki; ...."
Mary Kingsley - an excerpt from her notes "Travels in West Africa" - documenting her travels through the dark content from 1893 - 1895. A little light in tone for my tastes, she was nonetheless remarkable, not only in that she was one of the first female explorers of Africa, but in that she insisted upon doing it in full Victorian dress. Worthwhile, file next to Speke's "The Discovery of the Source of the Nile".
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