JUST WHAT IS IT ABOUT DRAGONS?
Or A Few Existential Thoughts On Creatures That Don’t Exist (and Something About Vampires Too)
Last October, I was asked if I would write a foreword for a book on… dragons. Having just had Forging Dragons publish at about the same time, they were still very fresh in my mind. Small world. Full of dragons.
JUST WHAT IS IT ABOUT DRAGONS?
They seem to be everywhere, their ubiquity matched only by their variety. No other creature speads such colossal wings or drags its scaly belly across the mythical lands of so many cultures over the aeons. They span the spectrum from devilry to divinity, from blackest evil to boundless good. They come in all configurations, they speak, or they make our minds reel with the power of their thoughts, they squat athwart hoards of treasure untold. They are story. They are dragons.
But just what is it about dragons ?
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TWO FOREIGN GENTLEMEN FROM NAPLES
Or the Most Enigmatic Lives and Works of Monsù Desiderio
If art history (capital A, capital H) generally traces a pretty straight path through the rolling green countryside of painting, stopping only to inspect the work of masters and “significant” contributors to our vision of what art constitutes Art, (“All passengers for Memling and the Flemish Primitives please prepare to disembark, for those travellers going on to Rembrandt, kindly remain seated”) there are many overgrown sideways paths to explore, reminders that a trip through Art isn’t always as simple as buying a ticket and boarding the Express.
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OUT, ABOUT & DOWN UNDER
BOOK SIGNING: SATURDAY MAY 16, 2009
I’ll be signing books at the Weta Cave in Miramar, Wellington, on May 16th, from 1 to 3 p.m. (Because I am a little lazy, I’ve just copied the text off the Weta site rather than write something of my own.)
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THE GALLEON’S WAKE
Or About Dreams, Chasing of.
Back in the 70’s, I had a paperback book called “Into the Aether”, by Richard Lupoff.
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