{"id":3499,"date":"2013-09-07T19:05:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T19:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/?p=3499"},"modified":"2020-06-21T17:48:13","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T17:48:13","slug":"landscape-with-the-fall-of-icarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/?p=3499","title":{"rendered":"Landscape with the Fall of Icarus."},"content":{"rendered":"
Mus\u00e9e des Beaux Arts\r\n<\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\nAbout suffering they were never wrong,\r\nThe Old Masters: how well they understood\r\nIts human position; how it takes place\r\nWhile someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully\r\nlong;\r\nHow, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting\r\nFor the miraculous birth, there always must be\r\nChildren who did not specially want it to happen, skating\r\nOn a pond at the edge of the wood:\r\nThey never forgot\r\nThat even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course\r\nAnyhow in a corner, some untidy spot\r\nWhere the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse\r\nScratches its innocent behind on a tree.\r\nIn Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away\r\nQuite leisurely from the disaster; the plowman may\r\nHave heard the splash, the forsaken cry,\r\nBut for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone\r\nAs it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green\r\nWater; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen\r\nSomething amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,\r\nHad somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.\r\n\r\nW.H Auden\r\n\r\n\"\"<\/pre>\n
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n
There are many who have passed by John’s Lane over the years, just carrying on their business. Walking a dog, on their way to work, perhaps even claiming to be “bird watching” yet never seeing the suffering of the wildfowl. Whilst the Albright and Wilson UK company and cherub “Icarus” was falling, so too were the wild birds, somehow tied to the fate of a failing polluting experiment.<\/p>\n
Whilst some social historians bemoan the “loss” of companies such as this, and vast amounts of copy can be written in local papers about it, in reality no-one could really care less. Perhaps this is poetic justice. I could not care less that Albright and Wilson disappeared and that jobs were lost, just as those who worked or contracted for them including the Matty boat dumpers could not care less about what toxic filth that they were filling into a pit and the deaths of birds that resulted.<\/p>\n
For those who are not privileged to be able to view this work in the Brussels museum, just try opening your eyes to what suffering man inflicts on Nature. It is easy to see why Nature looks away and does not care when men fail and fall.<\/p>\n
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C. D Coppard – Portrait of a chemical company<\/p><\/div>\n
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