8 responses to “Weekday Reading #19”

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   C.L.

   Apr 6, 2022 1:10 PM

   I’m yet to see any evidence of a massive atrocity in Bucha.
   Followed hard on the heels of the Ukrainian/Nazi torture videos – I presume that was the thinking behind the production.

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   C.L.

   Apr 6, 2022 1:13 PM

   The Daily Mail is wheeling out the five-decker headlines:

   Russian army commander who ‘organised mass rape and murder’ in Bucha is unmasked as God-fearing Lieutenant Colonel recently blessed by Orthodox church – hours after Zelensky shocked the UN with horrifying images and demanded Nuremberg-style trials.

   Usually, the more decks thy use, the more fantastic the ‘report.’

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   C.L.

   Apr 6, 2022 1:19 PM

   Wrong Thread.
   D’oh etc.
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   Angus Black

   Apr 6, 2022 2:30 PM

   I have to say, Dover, your choice of art is almost always delightful but you’ve outdone yourself today…

   …do you want to tell us who the artist is?
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   dover0beach

   Apr 6, 2022 4:50 PM

   Harold Knight, Angus. And thank you.
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   dopey

   Apr 6, 2022 6:22 PM

   He seems to be reading to someone out of the picture, to his left.

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   Louis Litt

   Apr 7, 2022 7:16 AM

   Yeah Dover – for what it’s is worth I love the painting you post.
   It shows the beauty of life on earth – whether it’s a landscape or portrait.

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   Angus Black

   Apr 7, 2022 7:47 AM

   Dover, thank you very much for introducing me to Harold Knight who, I confess, had absolutely passed me by. An interesting and attractive body of work – arguably you’ve picked out the standout piece, but he was a portraitist of some serious talent.

   I think my other favourite, amongst those I have found, is the two women on a cliff top – very 1920s/30s railway advertising posters in style.

   I once had a framed set of posters produced for the relaunch of the Orient express – 4 stations, sleeping & dining car – in a reminiscent style (sadly they went “missing” during one of our international house moves). My wife (to be, at that time) bought them for my birthday soon after we met…

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