 Recently a brand new book arrived. It was about the areal photos of Sherman Fairchild. He didsome wonderful areal readings of his native USA in the thirties. Some moving images can be found in this book - all are taken by the great reader and aviator  .
THE ART OF MEMORY
 The Art of Memory, was said to have been invented by a poet named Simonides (according to Cicero). In a bit of ancient forensics, Simonides had been able to identify the remains of guests at a banquet by their seating places around a table, after a roof had fallen in upon them and obliterated them beyond recognition. In the Classical use of the art, abstract images of a somewhat bizarre (and therefore memorable) nature were conceived that would be linked to parts of a speech and then to a well-known architectural feature of the hall in which the speech was to take place. By scanning the variety of statuary, friezes, articulated columns, or whatever, within the hall, the rhetorician skilled in the art could remember all the aspects of his speech. The hall would provide the order and a frame of reference which could be used over and over again for a complex constellation of constantly changing ideas.
LANDSCAPES, CITIZENS AND OURSELVES
William Dalrymple's travelogues open new reasons for why we should read landscapes, citizens and ourselves.
TO READ THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA
Yesterday a really rural reader turned up. A former navigator, captain and shipping manager invited RR to see the Ellerhusens Home for Retired Captains in Bergen. There he told some truths about navigation today and in the past. Navigation today can hardly be nominated 'navigation' - a few sailors know how to read the depths of the sea and the skies. Some sailors know only how to navigate on the net. Captain Harbitz-Rasmussen convinced RR to try out some really old alcohol-based compass even on our browser.
OCEANS, ISLANDS AND OUTSKIRTS
The hometown of RR, Bergen, Norway, is the base of one of the oldest navigation schools of whole Norway. Anyone who knows how to get in to this school please send us emails. One of our most expanding dreams are about a visit at this school. We often dream about the navigations and readings the scholars do there: Readings of oceans, islands and outskirts.
WE'VE BEEN READING AROUND
Ruralreaders.net isn't frozen at all. It just seems so. After a long break we're back in office. We have only been reading around to get more rural knowledge. We're ready to send more glimpses of these readings on the RRsite. If you have readings that fit in please send us an email. |