Myth & Moor update

I'm afraid I'm out of the studio for another day or two. It's frustrating to find myself back in bed again, but it's only a stomach flu this time and will surely be over soon. Meanwhile, there are plenty of books to read, and the Faithful Hound cuddled beside me.

"Reading," says Ben Okri, "is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds, eras, characters, continents, people never encountered before, people you wouldn���t care to sit next to in a train, people that don���t exist, places you���ve never visited, enigmatic fates, all come to life in the mind, painted into existence by the reader���s creative powers. In this way the creativity of the writer calls up the creativity of the reader. Reading is never passive."

The art today is " Reading by the Window" by Charles James Lewis (1830-1892), "Red Berries" by Albert Moore (1841-1893), and "Evening Reading" by Georg Pauli (1855-1935).