I got caught up and forgot to take photos of these objects, tapestries, and his “household gods,” so you will have to visit and see for yourself. I’m ashamed of myself for not getting a snap of the bronze relief his dad made of Mowgli with the St. Michael motif.
I visited Rudyard Kipling’s house, and the sheer quantity of Tibetan, Hindu, Buddhist, and other Oriental objects is stunning. The syncretism of his beliefs. His Dad’s bronze work, clearly done in Vedic style but with Christian motifs. Very interesting house, fitting of the man.
A happy birthday to Friedrich Schiller!
The manifestation of Greek civilization was indisputably a pinnacle that could neither be sustained at that level nor surpassed.
On the Aesthetic Education of Man, Letter 6
I’ve been in the UK long enough now for my adverts to switch to British ones, and it’s just The Telegraph and The Times, two allegedly right-leaning newspapers, advertising cuckoldry normalisation pieces.
The secondhand bookstore at Polesden Lacey had an incredible selection as well. Whoever’s curating it or finding the donations is a maestro. I found a first edition Njegos by Djilas and several first edition Goethe hardbacks.