How does one get involved in #BlackLamb24?
November 24, 2023 at 10:43 PM
How does one get involved in #BlackLamb24?
We are! I’m so excited, I’ve had it on my shelf for what feels like forever. We’ll be using the hashtag #BlackLamb24 so feel free to join the conversation. It will be a slow read, about 12pp a day.
December 13, 2023 at 4:29 PM
We are! I’m so excited, I’ve had it on my shelf for what feels like forever. We’ll be using the hashtag #BlackLamb24 so feel free to join the conversation. It will be a slow read, about 12pp a day.
…Such politics are a leak in the community. Generous passion, pure art, abstract thought, run through it & are lost. There remain only the obstinate solids which cannot be dissolved by argument or love…” (p 82) (2/2) #BlackLamb24
January 7, 2024 at 8:42 PM
…Such politics are a leak in the community. Generous passion, pure art, abstract thought, run through it & are lost. There remain only the obstinate solids which cannot be dissolved by argument or love…” (p 82) (2/2) #BlackLamb24
hey #BlackLamb24 readers, any recommendations for short-ish articles about the history of Yugoslavia? My background knowledge is embarrassingly poor, so though I'm fascinated by the book I know there's a lot I'm missing. TY in advance!
January 10, 2024 at 9:05 PM
hey #BlackLamb24 readers, any recommendations for short-ish articles about the history of Yugoslavia? My background knowledge is embarrassingly poor, so though I'm fascinated by the book I know there's a lot I'm missing. TY in advance!
"A proud people acquire a habit of resistance to foreign oppression, & by the time they have driven out their oppressors they have forgotten that agreement is a pleasure & that a society which has attained tranquility will be able to pursue many delightful ends." 82 #BlackLamb24 #RebeccaWest #Peace
January 7, 2024 at 4:53 PM
"A proud people acquire a habit of resistance to foreign oppression, & by the time they have driven out their oppressors they have forgotten that agreement is a pleasure & that a society which has attained tranquility will be able to pursue many delightful ends." 82 #BlackLamb24 #RebeccaWest #Peace
“I had to admit that I simply & flatly knew nothing at all about the south-eastern corner of Europe […] that is to say I know nothing of my own destiny.” (p 21) #BlackLamb24 And tomorrow we start the Journey!
January 3, 2024 at 4:09 AM
“I had to admit that I simply & flatly knew nothing at all about the south-eastern corner of Europe […] that is to say I know nothing of my own destiny.” (p 21) #BlackLamb24 And tomorrow we start the Journey!
#BlackLamb24 RW more emotionally sensitive than usual today: "her fingers, as if without her own knowledge, turned over the photograph of her mother, laying it with its face down, as if to protect the dead woman from the ancient enemy whose personality was being evoked by these memories."
February 6, 2024 at 10:50 AM
#BlackLamb24 RW more emotionally sensitive than usual today: "her fingers, as if without her own knowledge, turned over the photograph of her mother, laying it with its face down, as if to protect the dead woman from the ancient enemy whose personality was being evoked by these memories."
#BlackLamb24 The blog by James Thomas Snyder which someone mentioned recently is fascinating on the Gerda/Constantine/RW relationship. (With unfortunate information about Constantine in the Croatia section, linked from this page).
jamesthomassnyder.com/2021/11/07/s...
jamesthomassnyder.com/2021/11/07/s...
Serbia (Blogging Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)
"In the colourless light descending its vaults there waited Constantine's wife, Gerda, a stout middle-aged woman, typically German in appearance, with fair hair abundant but formless, and grey eyes so...
jamesthomassnyder.com
February 16, 2024 at 3:32 PM
#BlackLamb24 The blog by James Thomas Snyder which someone mentioned recently is fascinating on the Gerda/Constantine/RW relationship. (With unfortunate information about Constantine in the Croatia section, linked from this page).
jamesthomassnyder.com/2021/11/07/s...
jamesthomassnyder.com/2021/11/07/s...
Zagreb “It has the warm and comfortable appearance of a town that has been well aired.” #BlackLamb24 I love sinking into Rebecca West’s language every day!
January 5, 2024 at 4:26 PM
Zagreb “It has the warm and comfortable appearance of a town that has been well aired.” #BlackLamb24 I love sinking into Rebecca West’s language every day!
#BlackLamb24 Today was a catch-up day. Here’s the page guide for the next couple weeks. How’s everyone doing???
February 12, 2024 at 2:27 AM
#BlackLamb24 Today was a catch-up day. Here’s the page guide for the next couple weeks. How’s everyone doing???
"... a persuasion toward sanity; a belief that life, painful as it is, is not too painful for the endurance of the mind..." Rebecca West #BlackLamb24
March 21, 2024 at 10:37 PM
"... a persuasion toward sanity; a belief that life, painful as it is, is not too painful for the endurance of the mind..." Rebecca West #BlackLamb24
"...the policy of suppression was a mistake, and that he must make another attempt at a policy of reconciliation, since even if that failed it would smell better than the other." 608 #BlackLamb24
Then he abolishes democratic representation essentially. Oh no.
Then he abolishes democratic representation essentially. Oh no.
February 27, 2024 at 8:04 PM
"...the policy of suppression was a mistake, and that he must make another attempt at a policy of reconciliation, since even if that failed it would smell better than the other." 608 #BlackLamb24
Then he abolishes democratic representation essentially. Oh no.
Then he abolishes democratic representation essentially. Oh no.
“At this hour all cats are grey & all carpets are beautiful; the colours, fused by the evening, acquire richness.” (p232) RW’s frequent evocation of colour made me think about her earlier mention of Goethe’s theory of colour (p155) & I just went down a rabbit hole. #BlackLamb24
January 20, 2024 at 8:42 PM
“At this hour all cats are grey & all carpets are beautiful; the colours, fused by the evening, acquire richness.” (p232) RW’s frequent evocation of colour made me think about her earlier mention of Goethe’s theory of colour (p155) & I just went down a rabbit hole. #BlackLamb24
“Here man was at ease, he had mastered one part of the business of living so well that it was second nature to him.” (p222) #BlackLamb24
January 20, 2024 at 5:35 AM
“Here man was at ease, he had mastered one part of the business of living so well that it was second nature to him.” (p222) #BlackLamb24
"The whole of modern history could be deduced from the popularity of this heresy in W.Europe: its inner sourness, its preference for hate over love and for war over peace, its courage about dying, its cowardice about living." 173, Trogir. #BlackLamb24 #RebeccaWest
January 17, 2024 at 4:03 PM
"The whole of modern history could be deduced from the popularity of this heresy in W.Europe: its inner sourness, its preference for hate over love and for war over peace, its courage about dying, its cowardice about living." 173, Trogir. #BlackLamb24 #RebeccaWest
#BlackLamb24 #BelgradeIV #CaughtUp
1. Rastaquouére is a foreigner with flashy appearance, displaying suspicious wealth.
2. Zhitcha church- in crimson. (!!!)
3. Milan (or Michael?) abdicates in favor of 13 yr old son Alexander. "Serbia has never sunk lower since its foundation as a state."
1. Rastaquouére is a foreigner with flashy appearance, displaying suspicious wealth.
2. Zhitcha church- in crimson. (!!!)
3. Milan (or Michael?) abdicates in favor of 13 yr old son Alexander. "Serbia has never sunk lower since its foundation as a state."
February 20, 2024 at 4:11 AM
#BlackLamb24 #BelgradeIV #CaughtUp
1. Rastaquouére is a foreigner with flashy appearance, displaying suspicious wealth.
2. Zhitcha church- in crimson. (!!!)
3. Milan (or Michael?) abdicates in favor of 13 yr old son Alexander. "Serbia has never sunk lower since its foundation as a state."
1. Rastaquouére is a foreigner with flashy appearance, displaying suspicious wealth.
2. Zhitcha church- in crimson. (!!!)
3. Milan (or Michael?) abdicates in favor of 13 yr old son Alexander. "Serbia has never sunk lower since its foundation as a state."
Finally caught up with #BlackLamb24 . More fantastic descriptions: "immense and static pictures showing what historical events would have looked like if all the personalges had been stuffed first".
Her opinions about Slav/Western/Irish culture towards the end -- intriguing, let's say!
Her opinions about Slav/Western/Irish culture towards the end -- intriguing, let's say!
January 7, 2024 at 3:12 PM
Finally caught up with #BlackLamb24 . More fantastic descriptions: "immense and static pictures showing what historical events would have looked like if all the personalges had been stuffed first".
Her opinions about Slav/Western/Irish culture towards the end -- intriguing, let's say!
Her opinions about Slav/Western/Irish culture towards the end -- intriguing, let's say!
“It has been cut about as by a country dressmaker, but it has kept the meditative integrity of darkness considering light, the mathematical aspiration for something above mathematics…” (p 57) #BlackLamb24
January 7, 2024 at 4:42 AM
“It has been cut about as by a country dressmaker, but it has kept the meditative integrity of darkness considering light, the mathematical aspiration for something above mathematics…” (p 57) #BlackLamb24
Ottoman occupation of the Balkans, late 15th & early 16th c., produced large #s of Christian refugees who sought sanctuary in the West. ‘Uskok’ implies a refugee from across the border; term also incl. Senj natives, Croats, Albanians, Italians. (Bracewell, "Uskoks of Senj") #BlackLamb24 #RebeccaWest
January 14, 2024 at 5:57 PM
Ottoman occupation of the Balkans, late 15th & early 16th c., produced large #s of Christian refugees who sought sanctuary in the West. ‘Uskok’ implies a refugee from across the border; term also incl. Senj natives, Croats, Albanians, Italians. (Bracewell, "Uskoks of Senj") #BlackLamb24 #RebeccaWest
"In 1417 they passed what was the first anti-slavery legislation except for our own English laws discouraging the export of human cargo from Bristol." 242 Dubrovnik (Ragusa), Dalmatia (now part of Croatia). #BlackLamb24 #RebeccaWest
January 21, 2024 at 3:54 PM
"In 1417 they passed what was the first anti-slavery legislation except for our own English laws discouraging the export of human cargo from Bristol." 242 Dubrovnik (Ragusa), Dalmatia (now part of Croatia). #BlackLamb24 #RebeccaWest
“Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can be poured and lifted to the lips and be tasted.” (p 55) #BlackLamb24
January 5, 2024 at 11:07 PM
“Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can be poured and lifted to the lips and be tasted.” (p 55) #BlackLamb24
While I was at it, I also finished #BlackLamb24. The ending as of 1941 is very powerful.
I'd probably never have read the book without this project, and it's been a great experience!
I'd probably never have read the book without this project, and it's been a great experience!
April 25, 2024 at 5:54 PM
While I was at it, I also finished #BlackLamb24. The ending as of 1941 is very powerful.
I'd probably never have read the book without this project, and it's been a great experience!
I'd probably never have read the book without this project, and it's been a great experience!