{"id":11212,"date":"2012-04-01T01:43:40","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T00:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=11212"},"modified":"2013-02-02T03:37:39","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T03:37:39","slug":"weekend-links-102","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/04\/01\/weekend-links-102\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 102"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Flannery O’Connor with one of her many peacocks.<\/em><\/p>\n

When the peacock has presented his back, the spectator will usually begin to walk around him to get a front view; but the peacock will continue to turn so that no front view is possible. The thing to do then is to stand still and wait until it pleases him to turn. When it suits him, the peacock will face you. Then you will see in a green-bronze arch around him a galaxy of gazing haloed suns. This is the moment when most people are silent.<\/p>\n

Flannery O’Connor<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Essay of the week was without a doubt Living with a Peacock<\/em><\/a> by the great Flannery O’Connor, originally published in Holiday<\/em> magazine in September 1961. I’d heard about Flannery’s peacocks before but had no idea she was such a pavonomane. Thanks to Jay<\/a> for the tip!<\/p>\n

\u2022 “‘He’s chameleon, comedian, Corinthian and caricature.’ But he was more like the very hungry caterpillar, munching his way through every musical influence he came across…” Thomas Jones<\/a> reviews two new books about David Bowie for the LRB<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 In June Mute Records release The Lost Tapes<\/em> by Can<\/a>, a 3-CD collection. Here’s hoping this doesn’t merely repeat the outtakes that’ve been circulating for years as the Canobits<\/em> bootlegs. This extract<\/a> is certainly new.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Animator Suzan Pitt, director of the remarkable Asparagus<\/em><\/a> (1979), discusses her new film, Visitation<\/em><\/a>, inspired, she says, by reading HP Lovecraft in a cabin while wolves howled outside.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Night Thoughts: The Surreal Life of the Poet David Gascoyne<\/em>, a biography by Robert Fraser reviewed by Iain Sinclair<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Dangerous Desire (1936) by Richard Oelze<\/a> (1900\u20131980) at But Does It Float<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 Making the Mari: the stuff of nightmares brought into the world by Jefferson Brassfield<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Background to the Moorcock Multiverse: Karin L. Kross<\/a> reviews London Peculiar<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Orson Welles’s lost Heart of Darkness<\/em> screenplay<\/a> performed for the first time.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Erotic Films of Peter de Rome<\/em><\/a>: the new BFI DVD collection reviewed.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Page designs by Alphonse Mucha<\/a> for Ils\u00e9e, Princess de Tripoli<\/em> (1897).<\/p>\n

\u2022 A Slow-Books Manifesto by Maura Kelly<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Tim Parks<\/a> asks “Do we need stories?”.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Musical table<\/a> by Kyouei Design.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Horror Asparagus Stories<\/em><\/a> (1966) by The Driving Stupid | Peacock Lady<\/em><\/a> (1971) by\u00a0Shelagh McDonald | Peacock Tail<\/em><\/a> (2005) by Boards of Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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