I'm as mysterious to myself as I am mysterious to others

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Leonora Carrington. I had just been pleasantly surprised to discover she was still alive and painting!

time_shark, write her a muse, even if it was herself.

Sometime I shall find out why I stayed so long here, while I am happily contemplating reindeer and snow, cherry trees, meadows, the song of the thrush.
—Leonora Carrington, The Hearing Trumpet (1976)

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"The Carringtons, anxious about their daughter's wanderings across war-torn Europe, took the exotic step of sending her nanny to Spain in a submarine...."

The obituarist—a relative—wrote a very neat article about her in 2007.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Cool! Many thanks.

Nine