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Paul Valéry, La jeune Parque, 1925 edition.
Cover by Jeran-Gabriel Daragnès (1886-1950). Published in Paris by Émile-Paul frères, 1925.
“On the night of 4 October 1892, during a heavy storm, Paul Valéry entered an existential crisis. It became known as ‘The night of Genua’, and it made such a big impression on Valéry that he decided to give his career as an author a new direction: he stopped writing poetry. … For nearly twenty years, Valéry did not publish a single word.
Not until 1917 did Valéry break this ‘Great Silence’ with the publication of La jeune Parque, a poem of 500 lines of verse on which he had worked for approximately four years.”
From the collections of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek - National library of the Netherlands


A nocturnal country lane in France, by Lucien Rudaux, spotted by Woolgathersome.
The poetry is by Johannes Bobrowski, but it could equally well be by Philippe Jacottet.
L’Arrivée d’un train à La Ciotat, (Lumière Brothers, 1895).
This is the footage that supposedly made the audience that first saw it rush from their seats in panic.

Yorkshire’s answer to Georges Brassens, Jake Thackray, with the man himself. By way of announcing an eight-day sojourn in the Yorkshire Dales, during which this tumblelog will be rollin’ and tumblin’, but just more slowly than usual.
via the always-excellent World Of Kane