Happy Birthday to...

[smokingboot]

chomper99, bytepilot and load_of_flannel:-)

Wishing each of you a fantastic year!

(btw, Chomper99, do you remember that exhibition you told me about, 'The rooks of Trelawney' or something? If you can give me some clue as to where I can find out more, I would be very grateful)

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Re: Fantastic!

[lucyas.livejournal.com]

I would love to read a book on the subject but I don't own one. If you get the title of one, do let me know.

Re: Fantastic!

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

There's this book, 'The Rooks of Trelawne' by someone called Andrew Lanyon, who also seems to have been involved in creating the exhibition; but I can't find a review, so I don't know if the book is a photographic album with the story as background text, or a full blown telling of the tale.

If I find it, I will let you know!

I'm excited now; I knew that story was totally mental, I just couldn't recall the details!

Re: Fantastic!

[chomper99.livejournal.com]

Hello. It was certainly the oddest afternoon I've ever spent in a museum.

Additional snippets that I recall:- the psychiatrist's patient was advised to take up anthropology as a form of therapy, but as lucyas points out it didn't seem to go very well. Adding to the odd effect of the content was that the individual parts of the exhibit were numbered sequentially only if you jumped about. You had to go from one side of a corridor round the corner and then back again to follow it. But the most bizarre part was the final display which was just an entire wall painted black with the legend: "6pm. The rooks have not returned."

We asked other people passing through the exhibition what they thought it was about and they muttered vaguely about it being about photography, missing the whole therapy/anthropomorphism/madness angles. The normalcy of Polo mints preserved out sanity at the time.

We asked the little old ladies at the admissions table if we could speak to the curator and they told us he'd be back in an hour. When we returned an hour later the museum had been closed for 40 minutes and was shut for the rest of the day.

Quality strangeness.

Re: Fantastic!

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

This is all so bizarre, it can never be used for anything, cos no-one will ever believe in it as a starting premis!

I must try to contact the museum to see about the exhibition, which, 8 years on, I expect to have vanished in all its Pythonesque glory. We have Andrew Lanyon's book; I would love to trace the sources behind his story.