The Daily Life of Lord Byron

 

"He was seldom out of his bed before noon, when he drank a cup of very strong green tea, without sugar or milk. At two he ate a biscuit and drank soda-water. At three he mounted his horse and sauntered along the road—and generally the same road,—if alone, racking his brains for fitting matter and rhymes for the coming poem; he dined at seven, as frugally as anchorites are said in story-books to have done; at nine he visited the family of [his teenage mistress, Teresa Guiccioli]; on his return home he sat reading or composing until two or three o’clock in the morning, and then to bed, often feverish, restless, and exhausted—to dream, as he said, more than to sleep."

Edward John Trelawny "Records of Shelley, Byron, and the author"

Verses at The Coming of Spring

 

SURGIT FAMA 

 by 

EZRA POUND 

There is a truce among the gods,

Kore is seen in the North

Skirting the blue-gray sea

In gilded and russet mantle.

The corn has again it's mother and she, Leuconoe,

That failed never women,

Fails not the earth now.

The tricksome Hermes is here;

He moves behind me

Eager to catch my words,

Eager to spread them with rumour;

To set upon them his change

Crafty and subtle;

To alter them to his purpose;

But do thou speak true, even to the letter:

-Once more in Delos, once more is the altar a-quiver.

Once more is the chant heard.

Once more are the never abandoned gardens

Full of gossip and old tales.-

The Majesty of Ancient Ruins

 "The ideas ruins evoke in me are grand. Everything comes to nothing, everything perishes, everything passes, only the world remains, only time endures."

The words : Dennis Diderot,  Writings "on the salon of 1767"

The Pic : Roman Agora of Athens, in a rainy morning of March 2023

The SWORD & SORCERY Roots of early CELTIC FROST

 "For juveniles like us at the core of Hellhammer and early Celtic Frost, who were quite obsessed by the concepts created by Boris Vallejo, Frank Frazetta, HR Giger, Ron Cobb, Robert E. Howard, H.P. Lovecraft and Aleister Crowley, an utterly dedicated sword and sorcery movie such as the original Conan The Barbarian (1982) fell on deeply fertile soil. I owned every Conan book by Howard, including the unfinished ones completed by L. Sprague de Camp et al, and in spite of the fact that Conan The Barbarian deviated quite significantly from Howard's original stories, John Milius' film managed to capture the spirit of Conan's Hyborian Age to astonishing perfection.

My contemporary obsession with this movie thus at times approached alarmingly fanatical levels. Likely among the mildest of those were various visual, musical and lyrical references to Howard's prose, as can be found on Morbid Tales, Emperor's Return, To Mega Therion, and Into The Pandemonium.

This was all of course eons ago, and it is thus by now as much an ancient saga as Conan's story was when Howard wrote it down under the guidance, as he said, of Conan's ethereal spirit. But some of my closest friends back then walked this path with me, just as some of my friends of today share such sentiments."

Tom Gabriel Fischer 

Source: http://fischerisdead.blogspot.com/

Knight of The Black Teutonic Order

 

Reinhard Heydrich leaves his home for the office.

On the right of the door:

"You are not today and are not tommorow. You are 1,000 years in front of you and are 1,000 years after you" 

Wolf Sorensen

To Follow the Ancestral Ways

-  PATRIOS POLITEIA - 

Origin and Meaning

‘ancestral constitution (or way of life)’, slogan apparently used in the late 5th cent. bc at Athens by proponents of oligarchy, as a reassuring but fraudulent way of justifying constitutional change. The fraud lay in the implied claim that earlier reformers like Solon and Cleisthenes had denied full citizen rights (see citizenship, greek) to thetes, confining them to hoplites (zeugitai) and above. Such general nostalgia for the imagined world of Solon and Cleisthenes is found in the 4th cent., and some of the tradition about the 5th cent. may reflect 4th‐cent.

Source: The Oxford Dictionary

The Painting : Acropolis of Athens (1846) by Leo Von Kleze