09/30/2002 - 10:32 am

NOTES FROM THE BRITISH MUSEUM:

-"The Ram in the Thicket" found in the great death pit of UR

-"Writing first appeared, so far as is known, sometime before 3000 BC in Mesopotamia for the need to record economic transactions. During the next 500 years is when it started being used for literature, etc."

-Dutch Artists: Roelant Rogham; Nicholas Maes 1634-93 "A second study of the man's head is at the top of the sheet upside down."

-Vietnam Behind the Lines: Images from the War 1965-75; propaganda in a socialist-realist style; New role of women "One need have no beard to become a hero"; During the war the arts were encouraged. Army branches in occupied areas held courses."; Few Vietnamese works of the war focus on bloody combat.; Vietnamese soldiers a lot like American soldiers.

ON THE STREET:

-Someone asked me for directions.

-I was accosted by 2 of those "You should be a model" i.e. "you look very into your appearance and therefore we think we can talk you out of all your money" recruiters.

-Found an entire alley of hole-in-the-wall musical instrument shops (mostly guitars and amps and pedals on display.)

-"Harmony" 3 story sex shop "Largest registered sex shop in the UK"

I'm much better at finding my way BACK to where I began then I am at finding my way TO where I am going.

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