tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6720858203931120530.post1196840128487069898..comments2023-12-28T16:38:26.304-08:00Comments on ACravan: ConjurorACravanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6720858203931120530.post-7452737204163855122011-09-07T06:53:37.670-07:002011-09-07T06:53:37.670-07:00Amazing about John Dee (a person I discovered in t...Amazing about John Dee (a person I discovered in the course of preparing this). I found the whole Conjuror/Necromancer study fascinating and would like to explore it further. The Gaudier-Brzeska method appeals to me. At the moment, I feel like a melange or a stew and the monsoon conditions here add to that. CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6720858203931120530.post-75068889239488578232011-09-03T06:39:09.194-07:002011-09-03T06:39:09.194-07:00"This is an especially convenient mode of coo..."This is an especially convenient mode of cooking for persons whose hours of dining are rendered uncertain by their avocations."<br /><br />Ah, what a relief to know I am not the first to rely upon The Conjuror Method for ongoing sustenance.<br /><br />I believe it was once the custom of indigent artists (and doubtless other ne'er-do-wells) to Go Conjuror. Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, that great artist whose name would have been far less unspellable had he not fallen under the spell of his Polish Muse, was said to keep a large pot containing a bit of meat/gruel, along with any/all additional conceivably-edible food shreds that might have been available, on the stove, at a light boil, for... was it weeks? No, probably only days, at a time.<br /><br />(By the by, I do believe John Dee attended the same Cambridge college as did yours truly, so perhaps the instilling of the skills of necromantic distilling seeped in through the pores, at that so-easily-influenced age.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com