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William Acton's portrait of the Countess of Rosse was surreal enough to me that, when I came across it in a library book (The Country House Remembered), I ran to my color copier to save a copy for further study.
I don't see a reproduction of it online, but at his Wikipedia entry, the portraits of Georgia Doble and Loelia Posonby as busts against a stormy background are in the same vein.
There is a brittle part of me that, in reading on about various Bright Young Things and Edwardian squires and politicians and who-all, despairs of humanity even more than I already do and itches to burn and salt whole corridors of power and the smug supremacists therein and their ill-retained acres and stories. But I have loving friends, dedicated and kind colleagues, much to learn, and much to do. So.
Tonight's listening included this magnificent line from a Central Synagogue dvar Torah (around 6:15): "Life isn't that simple. And Judaism isn't that naive."
I don't see a reproduction of it online, but at his Wikipedia entry, the portraits of Georgia Doble and Loelia Posonby as busts against a stormy background are in the same vein.
There is a brittle part of me that, in reading on about various Bright Young Things and Edwardian squires and politicians and who-all, despairs of humanity even more than I already do and itches to burn and salt whole corridors of power and the smug supremacists therein and their ill-retained acres and stories. But I have loving friends, dedicated and kind colleagues, much to learn, and much to do. So.
Tonight's listening included this magnificent line from a Central Synagogue dvar Torah (around 6:15): "Life isn't that simple. And Judaism isn't that naive."
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