Fascinating discussion

at work with our Arabic Tutor who told me that Oum Kalsoum is more considered as evening music, and Fairuz, as morning music... so here we go... as I still think we are in the morning... and I very much hope that, like me, you will appreciate the beauty of the quarter of tones in the melody:

cat lost

For people of East Oxford Cowley Rd near Cazbar

Don't like movies much but love films! :-)

Libraries at the Movies: 'No one should be forbidden to consult these books...: The monastery librarian. For some reason, books are always returned by their due date The Name of the Rose (1986)   What's it about? ...

My answer (as it seems I'm unable to put in on that "Libraries at the Movies" blog):

 
Film not great and with mistakes? I found it pretty good, and yes perhaps many mistakes but there are also mistakes in the book... if I was able to detect one (a gregorian chant on the wrong day) there must be several others...

The motto of Oxford is "Dieu m'illumine" (in Latin, sorry I do not know this language), surely it is not: "grumpy always" in Cambridge? I don't understand why one has do to negative reviews, surely one must think positive? (I always do when I write reviews
http://www.dailyinfo.co.uk/search/reviews.php?user_id=23834)
And perhaps also write outside planet Hollywood films? You know, films that are sometimes not in English? There are many portraitures of librarians there, and many of them positive.

Lucile

Ouch... when I read "Umberto Eco's first novel tranformed a relatively obscure Italian professor of semiotics into an international poststructuralist superstar. Unlike Derrida, here was a European prof whose books you could actually read. Unlike Foucault, he didn't say awkward things about madness, imprisonment and sex, and unlike Deleuze his name was easy to pronounce and his ideas weren't so obviously loony." but hopefully this is humour from your part... hopefully. (in case not, do read the beautiful and moving book from my friend Joe
http://www.oxfordparis.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/seeing-invisible-kai-mansberger.html which uses a lot of Foucault's ideas and I can tell you from my own experience in psychiatric hospital that yes, some of what Foucault said -that is the Foucault I managed to understand!- is very true)

my first book!

now on sale at Brookes book fair :-)

First book of poetry!

So yes first book of poetry will be on sale at the Oxford Guild's at Oxford Brookes on 13 October  for the cheap (?) price of 7 pounds.
 It is published by my friends Alison and Paul, proud owners of Strawberry Press  
Several poems of mine, in English, all printed by hand (mine! Pfew! That was something!), with a wood-engraving from one of my Dad's drawings :-)

Papa's art stuff

It is a bit difficult to speak about one's father, but I will try, briefly. Papa's started drawing from an early age, probably influenced by his grand-father, André Deslignères (see wikipedia article, in French sorry!) and like him, has very much been a countryside painter, mostly of our village in Burgundy, Balleray (which is now in Google map, miracle!) but I don't really want to speak about his painting as I am more intrested in his drawings and engravings. As his name is also André Deslignères, he sometimes signs his work with "Deslignères jeune" (Deslignères the young)
Papa, like many autodidacts I know who never made it to high-school, has read extensively, and you can find many references to world litterature, such as
 Don Quichotte de la Mancha, a book he's very fond of,











or the Greek mythology,here it is the passage of the Styx, the river between life and death, with the "lovely" Charon in charge, described by Lucian (I think, though let me know if I'm wrong! But I remember studying a text in Greek class that my father read, and here is the result!). You can see also on that one, especially with Charon's head, Japanese influence.

Dad's always been very fond of the art of Japanese printmaking: Okusai in particular but many others and I'm sorry I do not have my Dad's culture and do not know many names!

 The Greeks again or rather the people living in Crete, and a smidgen of Picasso I suppose.

For my book, of course, there won't be any images of hell, or fantastic landscapes, there will only be... well I don't know yet, but very probably a real landscape (si tant est que cela veuille dire quelque chose!) or clouds

Autoportrait http://t.co/FLiKZoGg -- Lucile Deslignères (@LucileDeslignes)