Bedtime Story Conservatory 88 30/06/2020
Good afternoon everybody,
I went to Prisma, the huge 24hr supermarket in Mall of Tripla, which I live right next to, 2 nights ago, on a search for something to buy to make me feel good. I ended up buying a lot of groceries, but I also bought a bubble gun, which you can dip into a pot of soap and it blows bubbles. I had the idea that I would blow them out of my window in the morning, and I imagined that the people outside would see them, and I would think that they were beautiful. I got home, stuck a battery in the bubble gun and it turns out the fan is not powerful enough to blow any bubbles, the soap just hangs there in the ridged plastic circle, rainbows dancing on it's undulating surface, barely visible and barely existing.
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Hauntology
"Hauntology is a neologism introduced by French philosopher Jacques Derrida in his 1993 book Spectres of Marx. As a philosophical concept, it refers to the return or persistence of elements from the past, as in the manner of a ghost."
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Untitled, Zdzisław Beksiński 1925-2005, oil on fibreboard (photo: courtesy of the Gallery of Zdzisław Beksiński in Historical Museum in Sanok)
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Today's reading is the poem The Last Hedgehog 2018 by Pam Ayres. Ayres is an English poet, songwriter and television and radio presenter. The poem is very funny, and very morbid.
The song attached to the beginning and end of the recording is The Boy in the Bubble 1986 by Paul Simon.
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Warmest wishes and kindness to you on this drizzly and heavy day,
Sam
