Ciarán Ryan notebook

Alighiero Boetti - Embroidery like a TV screen - I VEDENTI - the sighted.

Mummies found on the Southern branch of the Silk Road - towards the Iranian Plateau. Desert: Taklimakan - swallower of cities.

See: Sand-buried ruins of Khotan and Ruins of desert Cathay.

They looked like western travellers - found on a small hilltop fort  - fifteen miles from Kroraina

2000 bc / 1000 bc

http://www.amazon.com/Mummies-Urumchi-Elizabeth-Wayland-Barber/dp/0393045218

The Mummies of Urumchi (Hardcover)
by Elizabeth Wayland Barber (Author)

Spirulina - nutrient packed algae - used by aztec messengers to help them run long distances

http://www.archaeology.org/0203/abstracts/tomb55.html

“Peace! Peace! He is not dead, he doth not sleep. He hath awakened from the dream of life”

P B Shelley

Disney’s secret weapon?

Playing on children’s fears of being alone, said Premiere magazine 1999.

Tarzan director Chris Buck:

“There is some sort of universal connection with the orphan… there are times in your life when you feel alone.”

Premiere:

Simba has “acute self loathing, a Peter Pan complex”

Tod the fox cub has “separation anxiety”

Therapist  Bernie Wooder: “Disney is very much appealing to abandonment… and seeing that it all turns out right in the end”

In British gardens there can be as many as 18 mammals. Rosehips on the bush - with little holes gnawed in them and the kernel extracted? It’s mice or voles.

Squirrels eat their rosehips on the ground.

Unlike the apes - human hair folicles point down? Humans came from the water?

Captain Eugene Cernan - last man on the moon 1972.

In the Taurus-Littrow valley - where he landed- he marked his daughters initials into the dust (?) - Tracy Cernan