The other 'determination' of the thoughts that follow is via my ecphrasis concerns,
notably sparked by a consideration of John Ashbery, Girls On the Run and Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.
[Consider the contiguities of the 'school photograph', or the 'conference photograph': one remembers the examples from the farm women's conferences my grandmother attended and that sometimes determined my childhood travels with her.]
[Incidentally, the text of Greenmantle that I found in Valletta is the 1994 Wordsworth Classics one (Wordsworth's place of publication counts as Ware). Its cover illustration is a detail from an 1852 watercolour, Abdullah--a Kurd from Bitlis, Amadeo Preziosi in the V & A, ironic given Hussin's remarks about Kurds on the page after the attaining of the castrol.]
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