Another January Photo: detail, Raindrops at www.FreeFoto.com
As Pictures Photo: detail, pillar, Cathedral of St. Catherine, Šibenik, Croatia - the author.
I have taken the title from William Shakespeare's play, Macbeth: Lady Macbeth says, "...The sleeping and the dead / Are but as pictures." (II.ii.53-4).
'Come Sunday' Photos: top, detail, early 1930s crowd scene - Hulton Archive; bottom, Duke Ellington at www.americanhistory.si.edu.
A version of the story first appeared in Blue Light, the newsletter of The Duke Ellington Society UK, vol.13, no.4. For information about Ellington, visit the DESUK website, www.dukes-place.co.uk and follow links to other sites there.
Dreamwork In a collection of articles by Charles Rycroft, Psychoanalysis and Beyond (1985, Chatto & Windus), is his summary of some of John Bowlby's findings on attachment, separation and loss: "Healthy mourning can conveniently be divided into four stages: (a) numbing, (b) yearning and searching for the lost figure, (c) disorganization and despair, (d) reorganization. True sorrow is being resisted in stage (b) and admitted in stage (c)."
Solace was composed by Scott Joplin.
The picture is a detail from the painting, Sleeping Man, by Ellen Altfest, at www.bellethergallery.com
Foul Is Fair - a story for young people Fleance is a character in William Shakespeare's play, Macbeth.
Paintings and drawing are by Pablo Picasso: pages 1, 2 (first picture), 3, 5, all details from Guernica, 1937 at www.msdlists.com; page 2 (second picture), detail, Stalin, 1953 at www.virtually.cz; page 4, detail, Mother and Child, undated, at www.greatmodernpictures.com; page 6, detail, untitled painting at www.malaspina.org.
The witches' recipes are from Reginald Scott, The Discoverie of Witchcraft, 1584. Geilles Duncane, Agnes Sampson and Agnes Tompson were named in witch trials in Newes From Scotland, 1591. Extracts from both are in John Dover Wilson's Life In Shakespeare's England (1944, Penguin).
Homepage Untitled drawing - Roger Deacon, 1988
Homework
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flood at www.pasc.met.psu.edu/.../
Jack And Auruope Photo: detail, Tree and Blue Sky at www.FreeFoto.com.
Nineteen Fifty-Seven Photos: page 1, detail, Wyndham Colliery, Rhondda Valley, South Wales at www.communityarchives.co.uk; page 2, Hungarians gathered around a toppled statue of Stalin, 1956 at www.freedomagenda.com.
The Sigh, The Heart Photos: top, detail, at www.fatu.us; bottom, detail, a Humvee called Frankenstein's Monster that has been modified with 'Pope Glass' around the turret - Todd Pitman, AP at www.msnbc.msn.com.
I have taken the title from Karl Marx's Introduction to A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1843-4): "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world."
Those Were The Days, My Friend Photos: page 1, Mom-original at www.photoshopessentials.com; page 2, Moll Flanders at www.fdungan.com.
The title phrase is from the English lyric by Gene Raskin to the Russian song, Dorogoi Dlinnoyu, by Boris Fomin and Konstantin Podrevskii
Tomorrow In Metropolis Photo: title page, a still from the 1926 film, Metropolis, directed by Fritz Lang, at www.forum.skyscraperpage.com.
You Don't Have To Say You Love Me The song is by Pino Donaggio and Vito Pallavicini; English lyrics are by Vicki Wickham and Simon Napier-Bell.
