It has been suggested I should open my thread wider. So I have obliged not sure if the rest agree but I guess we will see.
Here is just about my favourite painting, by Joseph Mallord William Turner. It shows the ship-of-the-line “Fighting Temeraire”, a veteran of Trafalgar, being towed to her final berth at Rotherhithe in 1838 to be broken up for scrap.
Just call it 'Art & Literature'. If you are widening the scope of the thread the other bit doesn't fit.
I love a bit of Dali, and "Galatea of the Spheres" is my favourite. It's a painting of Dali's wife after the artist got interested in nuclear physics
I just downloaded it to my Kindle. No carbon footprint either travelling to the shop or getting it delivered in a horrible dirty diesel lorry to the shop .No trees destroyed making the book, no printing presses wasted.
And if we get cold we can burn them once they are read. Actually, that brings me to something my mother told me as a child. She said never throw away a book. Once you have read it always pass it on to someone else. She also said to never burn them, as the knowledge in a book is worth too much. Not sure what she would have thought of my Kindle today. However, when she died, we donated over 800 novels to charity that she had on the various bookshelves around the house.
