jerome in the wilderness

the desert is growing

dispossession / nemeton

When the early saints intruded on the silent haunts of the earth-spirits in wood or mountain solitude, the earth-spirits arose to resist the invasion. They attacked St. Botulf fiercely when he desired to pitch his cell in their quiet retreats, crying out: a long time have we possessed this spot, and we had hoped to dwell in it forever. Why, cruel Botulf, dost thou forcibly drive us from our haunts?

Eleanor Hull / Folklore of the British Isles / Methuen / 1928 / p87

new print

rubricated landscape

extended through time

desert war

The four twisted blades, veined and frosted like the wings of a giant dragonfly, had already been overgrown by the trellises of crystals hanging downwards from the near-by trees. The fuselage of the craft, partly buried in the ground, had blossomed into an enormous translucent jewel, in whose solid depths, like emblematic knights mounted in the base of a medieval ring-stone, the two pilots sat frozen at their controls. Their silver helmets gave off an endless fountain of light.

Ballard / The Crystal World / 120

images found while teaching / desertion

fra angelico c. 1424



















jean-luc nancy / vox clamans in deserto

Now loss, cruel as it may be, cannot do anything against possession: it completes it, if you wish, it affirms it. It is not, at bottom, but a second acquisition - this time wholly internal - and equally intense. Rilke Agamben / Stanzas / Part 1

appropriation/ dispossession

pazuzu /possession







This book is dedicated to the Ancient Ones, … to Pazuzu, Lord of Fevers and Plagues, Dark Angel of the Four Winds with rotting genitals from which he howls through rotten teeth over stricken cities ……

Burroughs / Cities of the Red Night

in deserto

There were plants, and birds, and rocks, and things…

PERAS

My Dear Friend
Where the cross is etsia [seutaria] the photo is being taken from Pera, European side. I am going to Seutaria on Sunday or Saturday, that side is where the Sultan is living. Yours





PERAS

	πέρας

extremity, bound, end

1. of a portion of space
   1. boundary
   2. frontier
   3. the ends of the earth
   4. the remotest lands
2. of a thing extending through a period of time (termination)

dead carpark / pegwell/ hovercraft

cartoon deserta

strange harvest cartoon deserta



VOX CLAMANTIS IN DESERTO

reproaches from Jerome in the syrian desert

observations, weather changes or other events of daily importance

Desert

from
A Biblical and Theological Dictionary, John Farrar, 1884:

There is a difference between the meaning of the word desert as it occurs in Scripture, and the ordinary signification. The word generally rendered DESERT in Scripture, means a grazing-tract uncultivated and destitute of wood, but fit for pasture. The "pastures of the wilderness" are named in Scripture. Psal. lxv. 12; Joel i. 19. These deserts greatly varied with the seasons of the year. In summer they were burnt up with excessive drought; in the winter they were covered with pasturage. Whence it is that the Arabian tribes retreat into their deserts at the approach of autumnal rains, and when the drought commences they return to the lands of rivers and mountains, in search of the pastures which the deserts no longer afford. In the Bible, the different tracts mentioned as deserts are, Sin, Paran, Shur, Sinai, Kadesh, Judea, & c. The Hebrew word YESHIMON is applied to the desert of Arabia Petrea, in which the Israelites sojourned under the guidance of Moses. Numb. xxi 20; xxiii. 28. This was the most terrible of the deserts in which the Israelites dwelt: "A land of drought and of the shadow of death, a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt." Jer. ii. 6. "A waste howling wilderness." Deut. xxxii. 10

from
A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, Walter Skeat, 1897:

Series, a row. [L.] L. series, a row. - L. serere, to join or bind together [pp. sertus].
desert [1], a waste. [F. - L.] O.F. desert, a wilderness. - L. desertus, waste; pp. of deserere, to desert, abandon. - L. de, away [negative]; serere, to join.

Da Vinci's Jerome in the Widerness