'I have not the slightest recollecton of ever meeting or having had any communication with John MacCaig Thorburn... but in any case I could not possibly vouch for the validity or justification of anybody's work in a field such as Astrological Problematic.'
And so John MacCaig Thorburn slipped quietly into the dark.
A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
i believe his widow is still sitting on quite a few of Possum's letters for the proposed but never-to-be Volume II. Volume I was wonderful, perhaps II would be too wonderful for publication.
ReplyDeleteThe inaugural issue also includes an article (in .pdf format) about Jacob Simon, Chief Curator at the National Portrait Gallery, that, I was interested to see, shows him dressed for work almost identical to me. His rolling up his sleeves seems a nice touch. I might have to adopt that practice.
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