Love, Leda

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You cannot help but love Leda. He is such great company and so very alone. Desperate for someone to give him comfort and a home. Desperate to be able to stop and rest. He goes from parties, to friends' houses, sleeps with women he has just met to have a bed for the night. There are moments of joy here, moments of great humour. And the ending is so powerful I had to sit with it for quite some time after finishing. THE MARTIAN: 2015 Matt Damon film The Martian is chosen for this month's Silver Screen Science Fiction at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. Watch the film inside the Peter Harrison Planetarium, then hear a talk from an astronomer about the science behind it. 6pm-9pm MARK JENKIN: His latest film, Enys Men, has stirred up a fair amount of hype, but today Cornish filmmaker Mark Jenkin appears in a Q&A at BFI Southbank, alongside a retrospective of his earlier, short works. 6.20pm Darío, Rubén; Andrew Hurley; Greg Simon; Steven F. White (2005). Ilan Stavans (ed.). Selected Writings: Ruben Dario. Penguin. pp. 20–21. ISBN 978-0-14-303936-5.

LOVE, LEDA: Head to Foyles Charing Cross Road for the launch night of new book, Love, Leda, and accompanying exhibition, Leda in Soho. Love, Leda is a newly discovered, never-before-published queer novel set in and around the streets of Soho in the years before the 1967 Sexual Offences Act, and the exhibition maps some of the locations featured in the book. 6.30pm-8.30pm Leda and the Swan, Leda and the Egg, and Leda with her children were popular subjects in ancient art. In the post- classical arts, it became a potent source of inspiration. It is the subject of William Butler Yeats' poem Leda and the Swan. She is also the main subject in Honoré Desmond Sharrer's " Leda & the Folks", a large painting focusing as well on the parents of entertainer Elvis Presley and currently located at the Smith College Museum of Art.Leda is homeless, unemployed, extremely charming and clearly a looker. He's mostly estranged from his family and spends his days and nights around the bars and cafes of Soho finding men who will take him home. Oh, he’s quite willing to keep it, if that’s what you mean,’ she says, lighting up a cigarette. She must be in the early stages of pregnancy. A musical revolution is coming to The Old Vic! And it's all about a feminist, socialist, activist, pacifist and rebel who worked at the heart of the Suffragette movement: Sylvia Pankhurst.

Tchaikovsky, Liszt, you name it, I’ve got it,’ he says, unsure of himself. I couldn’t go to bed with him if he paid me.In the song "Power and Glory" from Lou Reed's 1992 album Magic and Loss, Reed recalls the experience of seeing his friend dying of cancer and makes reference to the myth, "I saw isotopes introduced into his lungs / trying to stop the cancerous spread / And it made me think of Leda and The Swan / and gold being made from lead" [ citation needed]

Dream girl,’ says the girl reading the signs in the rose garden. ‘Pink perfection, this one’s called. Timeless . . . Mr Smith!’ she shrieks. Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío's 1892 poem "Leda" contains an oblique description of the rape, watched over by the god Pan. [31] Mark was living an altogether different life. His fleeting sexual encounters with both men and women are rendered life-size with vaseline and details of the grey-white British body of the 1960s no-one under fifty remembers. Torremolinos was a thing by 1976. He tells one lover "you've got a tide mark". (Hello nan. I've got a bit better at washing these days.) Equally he takes a friend's children to the seaside...bet it was Brighton...and feeds them nothing but sugar all day and sinks into the melancholy that was to destroy him. I stop outside a pub called gold flakes and enter. In the corner, four sexagenarians sit playing cards. From the bar it looks like Twenty One –Barman: SPIDER SECRETS: Arachnphobes, look away now. The Royal Institution hosts Sara Goodacre, founder of SpiderLab, for a talk about the genetic secrets of spiders. She reveals some things about the creatures which can't be seen on the surface, such as artificial spider silks that could be used for drug delivery, wound healing and regenerative medicine. 7pm-8.30pmA short, racing novel following our protagonist Leda through several nights wandering the streets of London looking for any kind of home. Ronsard wrote a poem on La Défloration de Lède, perhaps inspired by the Michelangelo, which he may well have known. He imagines the beak going into Leda's mouth. [28]

Oh, that’s nice,’ says the girl. ‘I think we’ll just take a little stroll down this path. Is that OK, Mr Smith?’ image; Fossi, Gloria, pp. 402–3, Uffizi: art, history, collections, Giunti Editore Firenze Italy, 2004, ISBN 88-09-03676-X, 9788809036765 google books It’s hard for me to believe that I exist and at the same time accept my delusions. (Myself as I am.) On such a realization what can I base my life on? Must I forever live with dreams and fairies? Am I minimising myself so as to hide from my true vocation? Or am I the corruption of what I see? JUBILEE EXTENSIONS: When they opened in 1999, the Jubilee line extension stations were hailed as "the biggest architectural sensation of their kind since the Moscow Underground". Almost quarter of a century down the (Jubilee) line, join former head of design and heritage for Transport for London, Mike Ashworth, on a tour taking in Westminster, Southwark, North Greenwich and Canary Wharf. 11am-2.30pmFulgentius, Fabuis Planciades (1971). The Fable of the Swan and Leda. Ohio State University Press. p.78. ISBN 9780814201626. Leda and the Hat Pin". Sculpture. Victoria and Albert Museum. Archived from the original on 10 March 2009 . Retrieved 24 July 2007.