Michel Lara

Father- Advocate for Liberty.
Classicist aficionado. History/Art/Literature/Music-Reader/Bibliophile/ philosopher-poet

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Historical circumstances change
Human nature doesn't...

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Here you can listen to the Lento-Allegro Molto mov. from Elgar's Cello Concerto in E Minor (1919) played by Jacqueline Du Pré with the LSO conducting Sir John Barbirolli-1965 Lp- A favorite!

https://t.co/xBNbPGtlSj…

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Listening now to the playfully haunting cello in the Largo-Allegro Molto mov. from Elgar's Cello Concerto in E Minor (1919) wonderfully played by Jacqueline Du Pré in cello with the LSO conducting Sir John Barbirolli from the acclaimed 1965 Lp recording. Enjoy!

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I just re-wrote the above meditation on books & readers I did like 3 years ago. It's part of a poetic series titled: 'Reflections on the Undiscovered'

*The photo shows some old books from my collection.

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Of Literary Ghosts

They say literary ghosts refuse to forget the kingdom of the living, ever awaiting for an unexpected reader to revive their muted words. For reading, after all, is a rebirth of the unread.

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Here you can watch one of M.R. James' famous ghost stories titled: 'A View from a Hill' from a BBC tv adaptation. Enjoy!

https://t.co/taoOHKDa7D

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Watch another excellent tv documentary on the life & works of English medievalist & ghost story writer M.R. James (1862-1936) Very fitting for Halloween season! Enjoy!

1-A Pleasant Terror: The Life & Ghosts of M.R.James.

https://t.co/MWyr2AUjx2

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Watch this excellent tv documentary on the life & works of English medievalist & ghost story writer M.R. James (1862-1936) Very fitting for Halloween season! Enjoy!

1- M.R. James Ghost Writer hosted by Mark Gattiss
https://t.co/kJoZX5HdTE

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From my book collection:

'Medieval Studies and the Ghost Stories of M. R. James (2017) by Patrick J. Murphy. Insightful exploration of how the Christian archeologist & medievalist M.R. James fascination with the supernatural spawned his creativity via his famous ghost tales.

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P.S. I will post later today two documentaries & TV adaptations on M.R. James' ghost stories.

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Now reading macabre Edwardian fiction: 'The Ghost Stories of M. R. James', a mix of occult history, ghosts, manuscripts & the foreboding exquisitely written by a medievalist.

Some favorites:

Canon Alberic's Scrap Book
The Mezzotint
A View from a Hill
A Warning to the Curious

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Table of Contents for 'The Ghost Stories of M. R. James', selected & introduced by Michael Cox-illustrated by Rosalind Caldecott-Oxford University Press 1987.

The stories in this edition by medievalist M.R. James were published between 1895 & 1936.

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@t13cs3icamirafr Yes, from Monet visit to Venice in 1908.

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Venetian Palazzos painted by Monet during his 1908 visit to La Serenissima: The artist's eye seemed to have captured the Venetian light through Murano glass, transfiguring the floating palazzos on lagoon turquoise waters into the melancholic haziness of a late afternoon reverie.

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Here you can listen to the exquisite
'Gavotta' composed by Count Ludovico Roncalli from his 1692 guitar suite "Capricci armonici sopra la guitar Spagna" performed by el maestro Andrés Segovia-1958 Lp-A favorite!

https://t.co/nzdr7K7vIu

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Listening now to this Baroque guitar melancholia in 'Gavotta' composed by Count Ludovico Roncalli from his 1692 guitar suite "Capricci armonici sopra la guitar Spagna" performed by el maestro Andrés Segovia in this 1958 Lp recording. Enjoy!

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P.S The above short bibliophile's legend is my latest imaginative writing from a poetic series I've titled: 'The Venetian Antiquarian'. Thank you all for reading.

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A XVI century Venetian antiquarian is said to have owned a book whose pages were all empty saved a fragmented Latin inscription copied from papyrus scrolls by monks:

"Reportedly found by River Lethe whose oblivion-colored waters undo memories of hard-fated mortals"

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Above paintings of Venetian Palazzos (left to right) painted by Claude Monet during his 1908 visit:

1- Palazzo Ducale
2-Palazzo da Mula
3-Palazzo Contarini
4-Palazzo Dario

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@martinmendezglz On lp's I have a few piano pieces played by Horowitz which was a big fan of his music.

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P.S. The above image shows the title page of Erasmus' Adagia:

Desiderius. Erasmi Roterodami Adagiorum chiliades tres, ac centuriae fere totidem. Venezia: Aldo Manuzio, September 1508

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Aldus Manutius acclaimed founder of Venetian Aldine Press & printer of classical,humanist texts had a Dolphin & Anchor printer’s mark with motto: 'Festina Lente' an oxymoron meaning “make haste slowly“: dolphin symbolizing speed of production; anchor denoting stability of purpose

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In 1508 Manutius' Aldine Press published Erasmus’s Adagia. Erasmus explained Aldus’s motto Festina lente while also adding that: Aldus bibliothecam molitur, cuius non alia septa sint, quam ipsius orbis "Aldus is building a library whose only walls are those of the world itself"