That... place (Hades, the Infernal Regions, a fiery, hellish place, a place where ignorance, brutes, imps and curmudgeons rule supreme: where the usual order of God's heaven is inverted) does not bear mentioning. As for the law degree: I have a tight deadline and have shed loads of reading to do. I've had it. I'll get it done, of course, but not on Friday night after another attending to the most servile, basest duties.
The guy came through with the source code, which is great news. Only the eBook code is written so far, but it should be only about seventeen days until the assignment is fully complete. Therefore, I have been reading Vasari's Lives of the Artists (only in translation: George Bull's), and researching my new book: Lives of Extraordinary Artists In Our Times. Scarcely a slender fraction of artists I have had the pleasure of meeting have made it into my book. I would have liked to include several dozen more, but these are not well known to me, having only worked with them or met them on one or two occasions. It is a little work of biography, which is a popular genre.
I had decided to keep myself well out of the book, but intend to include a (brief) note about myself and my art, as the last appendix (available only in the print version, as are all its appendices). The British Establishment will go down in history as having no taste, no refinement, no sophistication. They chose cotton when they could have had silk. The UK is not alone in favouring lesser poets. That awful poem by Amanda Gorman (spoken on President Biden's inauguration) was completely lacking in literary merit: all hot air, no real thought was put into it. These are the reasons why this is not Elizabethan England, but instead the literary Dark Age.
In any case, I look forward to exposing the British art scene for what it is: all a facade, lacking in any real depth or substance. For example, the British appear to favour dance, as an art form (as evidenced by the popular TV show Strictly) but in actual fact, dance is deemed the lowest art form, in education. Any art form is reserved exclusively for the rich. (Certainly when I was at school, I had only one free choice of subject: so I chose music, naturally. Now, I hear, there is no choice, and anyone wishing to go on to study music at college has to focus more on editing and the commercial side, instead of, when I studied it: actually learning how to play a musical instrument well). I suppose that's a bit to complicated for the British to understand. It is only those with the means that have the luxury of learning how to master a musical instrument well under the proper guidance. Archaeology is another subject (though technically a science) which is all glitz and glamour on the BBC, but is actually off the syllabus in Further Education and has been since 2016 (along with classical civilisation A-level). Sure, the British pretend to rate art, music, opera, and high literary culture, but the reality is, that in education at least, arts are the lowest of the low. STEM subjects are where it's at. "Facts! Facts! Facts Mr. Gradgrind!"
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