Antville lacks an easy interface to dump information/raw data here, directly from the web browser. Couple this with my customary laziness for not recording encounters (I will be cursed to reconstruct all of them later like Proust because of this laziness perhaps?) in order to spead the 'good news' to others, and what you get is quite a dormant blog. Perhaps I should force myself to write a short missive here everyday, as an exercise in writing as well as to keep record of the stuff that knocks my neurons (dying, slowly dying) around.

So for today, as I tool around in Cyber-ia, for I am waiting for Godot, I bring to notice this museum exhibit in the British Museum (O Londoners, go go to this one!) on Ancient Persia:

www.nytimes.com

Interesting question this rises: can museum exhibits reconstruct history? I think not, for history is narrative stories (historians would grumble here that, yes but the story has to be based on verifiable conjuctures; to which the skeptic would snort, baah a bunch of verbose speculators) that we tell ourselves over and over again. So to change the story, the new story has to be told and accepted over the old, over and over again.

And this tasty beast poem, which I read before the above article on Persian art, for lunch today:

from Apollinaire's Le Bestiarie

Elephant

An elephant has got its ivory But I also have a treasury In my mouth... Words precious As the grandest tusks...