Comments on: Blessed are the Irrelevant http://borderland.northernattitude.org/2006/08/28/blessed-are-the-irrelevant/ (bôr'dər-lănd') n. Located on or near a frontier. An indeterminate area or condition. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:06:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Doug http://borderland.northernattitude.org/2006/08/28/blessed-are-the-irrelevant/#comment-7385 Doug Sat, 02 Sep 2006 17:16:59 +0000 http://borderland.northernattitude.org/2006/08/28/blessed-are-the-irrelevant/#comment-7385 More Leunig: <span style="text-decoration:underline"><a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/arts/picasso-and-the-bull/2006/07/06/1152175723550.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">On Picasso and the Bull:</a></span> Artist, leave the world of art, Pack your goodies on a cart, Duck out through some tiny hole, Get away and save your soul. Leave no footprints, don't look back, Take the dark and dirty track ; Cross the border, cross your heart; Freedom from the world of art. For example: <em>"THE FRENCH PAINTER PIERRE Bonnard was feeling very depressed one day so his friends took him to the Louvre in Paris to look at the art - and it was observed that he spent a lot of time staring out through the windows. When the visit was over and the group had departed, they paused for coffee and reflected about what had impressed them most. "I liked the windows best of all," offered Bonnard."</em> Thank you, Artichoke. More Leunig: On Picasso and the Bull:
Artist, leave the world of art,
Pack your goodies on a cart,
Duck out through some tiny hole,
Get away and save your soul.
Leave no footprints, don’t look back,
Take the dark and dirty track ;
Cross the border, cross your heart;
Freedom from the world of art.

For example: “THE FRENCH PAINTER PIERRE Bonnard was feeling very depressed one day so his friends took him to the Louvre in Paris to look at the art - and it was observed that he spent a lot of time staring out through the windows. When the visit was over and the group had departed, they paused for coffee and reflected about what had impressed them most. “I liked the windows best of all,” offered Bonnard.”

Thank you, Artichoke.

]]> By: Artichoke http://borderland.northernattitude.org/2006/08/28/blessed-are-the-irrelevant/#comment-7382 Artichoke Sat, 02 Sep 2006 10:21:22 +0000 http://borderland.northernattitude.org/2006/08/28/blessed-are-the-irrelevant/#comment-7382 Have posted your ninth Edublogger’s Beatitude above my desk Reminds me of Leunig's "What a Fuss" Each day - such a fuss, Such praise, such damnation: Ooh, aah, yes, no ...! Exhaustion and disintegration Such a fuss, yet the goat Eats little flowers and thorns And hears the sparrow Singing brightly in his horns (The sun is sweet, the afternoon lies sleeping in the valley), A song for little flowers and thorns Digesting in the belly. Have posted your ninth Edublogger’s Beatitude above my desk

Reminds me of Leunig’s “What a Fuss”

Each day - such a fuss,
Such praise, such damnation:
Ooh, aah, yes, no …!
Exhaustion and disintegration

Such a fuss, yet the goat
Eats little flowers and thorns
And hears the sparrow
Singing brightly in his horns
(The sun is sweet, the afternoon lies sleeping in the valley),
A song for little flowers and thorns
Digesting in the belly.

]]> By: Miguel Guhlin http://borderland.northernattitude.org/2006/08/28/blessed-are-the-irrelevant/#comment-7328 Miguel Guhlin Tue, 29 Aug 2006 10:28:56 +0000 http://borderland.northernattitude.org/2006/08/28/blessed-are-the-irrelevant/#comment-7328 Preach on, brother! Preach on, brother!

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