A dream in theatre...(27/12)

It was my first trip to London in 1998. Accompanying me along the trip was a notebook with made of calfskin parchment. A loaded white papers full of dreams and fantasies. Youth was the ever-flowing ink that bound itself inside a silent of passion and glory. The trip was an inspiring and enlightening voyage of life, and framed with Warhol's quote of the "15-minute stardom", I thought of a devotion to theatre and performing arts...
The splendid theatre industry in London was fascinating. Filled with strokes of colours and relativity of brightness, the moving objects are shaping their shadows in a waltz. Lights in, and lights out, and a fame rested inside the deeper end of an unexplored land. A decade, slowly evolving in its set pattern, and actors act, as of they ever choose to play. Summers come and go, and quietly, the ink fades into the sepia butterfly wings...a reprise of waltz dance in the virtually cooling air. Tonight, the striking beams of contrasting lights brought me a flashing memory of the once-upon-a-time gorgeous moments of florescent glory. My pen writes in past tense...

Lines of words...(1/1)

Enjoy a lot the babyrinth between the lines of words and the extent of imagination behind the upright scene of blackening wisdom...this is perhaps one of the motives for the 'pair' visits to the aisles of bookstores along the Charing Cross Road within 2 weeks' time. Apart from the three shortlisted books above, I collected some items in the second hand stores which had long been called for under my wish list.

- "touching from a distance", Deborah Curtis, 1995 edition
a long awaited reading...
- "the plague", Albert Camus, Hamish Hamilton 1948 edition
the work written at the peak era of Camus...
- "borrowed place borrowed time: Hong Kong and its many faces", Richard Hughes, 1976
a retro searching of the identity of Hong Kong...
- "the peloponnesian war", Thucydides
should it be called a classic?
- "modern nature", Derek Jarman, 1991 edition
it always reminds me the spacious nature at Dungeness...
- "a history of modern Russia", Robert Service, 2003 new edition
from the view of the Oxford professor.
- "dubliners", James Joyce
just because of the Ulysees.
- "the complete novels", Franz Kafka
full of reasons.
- "the iliad and the odyssey", Chapman's Homer
it is only that Chapman's is an English version.

...and the rest from the Amazons...
- "who's who in the Greek world", John Hazel, 2002 edition
- "rubicon", Tom Holland, 2005 edition
- "the arcades project", Walter Benjamin, 2002 Harvard University Press paperback edition

...to read in 2007.

Images of Victorian...(29/12)

It was the Victorian period in the mid-19th century. There were a few moments of the darker side of the city, of the faces, of the cities, in the mourning weep, and cooling water flew...after dark, people found out an intensified sense of loneliness and nobody. The strengthened bridge road was a bridge of sighs. Only the flowing river could bring away the dirt of the days, a euphemistic way.
Little sister's gone to sleep. Her playing toy's still positioning upright, In the armchair, it was ready. Staring at the distance, it was blinking with a touch of hope. The smiling face had never changed, like the always-young face of the clown, a euphemistic way to say regret. The once-very-warm coat, left alone, sank into the freezing dusk of sightless still. Human circle shrunk. It was the time. Ladies were always the character, another euphemistic means to cover the pain from men.

Embankment by Rachel Whiteread...(23/12)

There is currently an exhibition featuring the installation of Rachel Whiteread at the Tate Modern Museum in London...The work, named "embankment", is a labyrinth-like space comprising about 14,000 cartons painted in white. It is simply like blocks of white sugar accumulating on the floor, an interesting but not much creative idea. Reviewing the previous works of the sculptor, she likes to use the white mould in her work. Her idea is much lively, and the topics relate to the daily life. However, this is not really great for me, and all in all, the relatively large scale of this "embankment" installation amuses me the space and perspective in the once-upon-a-time-factory-building modern museum. The Tate shop and library are another two attractive features which I did not really have managed to stay and read during my visit.