Before regular traffic begins. A productive day, but at 8:21 PM I am unlikely to blog much after a day spent working and answering correspondence at this desk. I should leave you all with an image or two to hold you from… what? Something surreal? Poignant? Beautiful? Art or artifice or nature?
Aahh, I know. Karen Myers sent me this, from 14th Century France: a hare out hunting, riding his dragon- tongued saluki, hawking with a … snail.
This MUST be some sort of 14th century political cartoon, what?…..L. B.
It's a common trope in medieval manuscripts, a variant of "the world turned upside down". Rabbits hunt men, cats chase dogs, and so forth.
Yeah, politics–synonymous with "the world turned upside down" and anything else that varies considerably from reality! And thanks for the explanation–very interesting!….L.B.