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'The souls most fed with Shakespeare's flame Still satunconquered in a ring, Remembering him like anything'.

It was only later, when I started to read the likes of DeeWells' 'Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee' that I began to realizethat the Western myth, powerful as it was, had another side.When you grow up, you realize that everything has another side.
Influences I think it was the Russian writer Tolstoy who saidthat the most significant revolutions were internal; in otherwords they happen individually and in your head. I can see whathe meant, although if the old boy had been around in 1917 hemight have bitten his lip.

The first film I ever saw, when I was seven years old, was 'RedRiver' with John Wayne and Montgomery Clift. I was taken by mydear foster parents and I have [url=http://www.ktbruce.co.uk/barbourjackets.php]barbour.co.uk[/url] never forgotten it. The followingweek I was taken to see 'Winchester 73', starring the alreadymentioned James Stewart. Cinemas in those days were wondrousplaces with, it seemed to me, impossibly high ceilings andextravagant baroque decorations everywhere. This one had anamazing colour and light-filled organ, which came [url=http://www.sandvikfw.net/shopuk.php]hollister sale[/url] up out of thefloor. The whole thing, the electric organ like a rainbow in thedark, and the ten-foot high cowboys clanking across the screen(we always sat near the front), made an indelible impression onme.
All the same, the earth has moved a couple of times in ourlifetime (well, in mine, anyhow); once in the fifties and thenagain in the nineties, with the coming of the communicationsrevolution, based on the silicon chip and the all-conqueringcomputer. Incidentally, while we're on the subject, hands up allthose who actually know what a silicon chip is. Hmm, I seeyou're all with me and Homer Simpson on this one. You rememberwhen the doctor asks him if the alien life form he'd seen wassilicon or carbon based, and he thinks for a moment and says,"Um, the first thing - zilophone".
Fortunately we do not have revolutions anymore; we haveelections. Not even that business with the holes punched invoters' cards in the Bush vs Gore election scramble caused morethan the American equivalent of a Gallic shrug (and doesn't thatseem a long time ago now?)
I read a lot of science fiction in those days, starting withH.G.Wells, Arthur C.Clarke, C.S.Lewis, and going on to theAmerican writers, Ray Bradbury etc. Thats probably how Idiscovered American writers in general; Hemingway, JohnSteinbeck, who wrote East of Eden, from which the film starringJames Dean was made, and the wonderful James Thurber, whoseelegant and witty prose deserves to be better remembered than itis. Perhaps he really belongs to that black and white era inwhich Spenser Tracy always wore a suit and Katherine Hepburnwould glide through a marble hall bigger than most people'shouses today.
We tend to think of revolutions as being violent and bloodyconflicts, which of course they are, the French, Russian andAmerican Revolutions being prime examples. On the other hand,the Industrial Revolution, which, in the end was morefar-reaching than any of the other contemporary revolutions, wason the whole, peaceful.

Finally there was the pneumatic tyre, invented in Scotland notonce but twice, and forty years apart. It was first patented in1845 by Robert Thomson, used successfully for a while onbicycles and then, unbelievably, forgotten. Forty-three yearslater John Dunlop re-invented it, and the rest, as they say, ishistory. Robert Thomson, went on to invent the fountain pen, andhe gets my vote for that, as I detest biro pens (excusez-moi,Monsieur Biro).
I'm tempted to add whisky to the list, but I have a feeling thatthis particular invention would have had the effect of slowingthe march of progress to a walk, [url=http://www.thehygienerevolution.com/hollister.php]hollister[/url] or possibly a stagger.
Finally in this tale of influences, it was as far as I remember,a book I'd been given for Christmas that first kindled myinterest in art. It had pictures of boats and water - mostly oilpaintings - and I was fascinated by the way the reflections inthe water had been portrayed. They looked so real, and at thesame time you could tell they had been painted. I still try tokeep that feeling in my work today. Later on, at art college, Ithink one of the tutors described painting as a dialog betweenreality and illusion, but I think what he meant was - it's magic.
As for books, I suppose I read mainly English writers, fromKipling to John Galsworthy and G.K.Chesterton. Chesterton couldbe poignant, as in; 'With monstrous head and sickening cry, Andears like errant wings, The devil's walking parody On allfour-footed things.
Anyway, the fifties, as everyone knows, saw the rise of theteenager. Before the fifties, young people wanted nothing morethan to grow up like their parents. They dressed like them andprobably thought like them. If Dad wanted [url=http://www.jeremyparendt.com/Barbour-Paris.php]barbour france paris[/url] to wear his trousersunder his armpits and have shoulder [url=http://www.ktbruce.co.uk/hollisteroutlet.php]hollister outlet[/url] pads so broad that he lookedwider than he was tall, then that was okay for Junior too.
At this point I have to do a little flag waving for Scotland.Well, I don't have to, but I'm going to. Three importantinventions of the time, without which it's difficult to see howthe Industrial Revolution could have made much progress, wereall Scottish. In 1769 James Watt patented the first effectivesteam engine and subsequently had a unit [url=http://www.rtnagel.com/airjordan.php]nike air jordan pas cher[/url] of power called a Watt,named after him. Then there was the macadamised road, inventedby - yes, you've guessed it - a man called McAdam.
It was the recent passing of two icons from my early years; thegreat Ray Charles, followed by Marlon Brando which set methinking about my early influences. Inevitably a lot of themwere American. At that time in the UK we didn't have manyinternational stars, although throughout the history of [url=http://www.ktbruce.co.uk/mulberrysale.php]mulberry outlet[/url] thecinema there has been a steady trickle of actors from the UK whohave made it big time in the US; Chaplin, Stan Laurel, CaryGrant (Tony Curtis's atrocious English accent as the phoneymillionaire in 'Some Like it Hot' was based on Cary Grant'saccent), Bob Hope, Hitchcock, the beautiful Vivien Leigh, pickedfrom [url=http://www.ktbruce.co.uk/barbourjackets.php]barbour[/url] thousands to play Scarlet O'Hara in 'Gone With theWind'("I'll think about it tomorrow"), Elizabeth Taylor, MichaelCaine, the dodgy Hugh Grant, Kate Winslett (Titanic) and SeanConnerry.
One of my favourite writers at the time was Henry Williamson, acontemporary and friend of T.E.Lawrence, 'Lawrence of Arabia'.His best-known book was 'Tarka the Otter', a gritty, realisticstory about the life of an otter in North Devon. Much later Iwas disillusioned to find out that he was a Nazi sympathiser,and I think he once actually [url=http://www.tagverts.com/barbour.php]barbour online shop[/url] met Hitler. I can only think he wasattracted by the idea of 'purity'. Well, we all know where thatleads.
Fools! For I also had my hour; One far fierce hour and sweet:There was a shout about my ears, And palms before my feet.' TheDonkey
Chesterton once dedicated a story to his readers - 'So many ofwhich belong to the human race'.
All that changed with the coming of James Dean and MarlonBrando. James Dean was gone by the time I reached my teens, butI still went through the black leather jacket and white T-shirtphase. Dean had such an impact that he still seems modern today.It's as if he belongs to an entirely different world than, say,Jimmy Stewart.
Just for the record I might as well mention a few othercontemporary Scots inventions. James Simpson - first doctor touse anaesthetics, Joseph Lister - first to use antiseptics, TheKelvin scale, Maxwell's equations in Electro-magnetism (whateverthey are), Marmalade, The macintosh. [url=http://www.fibmilano.it]woolrich[/url] A waterproof coat, inventedby a Scots chemist called (why, of course) Charles Macintosh. Heinvented it whilst trying to do something else, but it stillcounts as a Scottish invention.
I must also mention William Faulkner who wrote about the DeepSouth and the mythical Yuknapatawpha County. In all his novelshe explored the sometimes convoluted relationship between theraces. He also wrote one humorous story, 'The Reivers', whichwas made into a film starring Steve McQueen. For me, he was oneof the best mid-century writers, although apparently he was notmuch liked by the local farmers, who referred to him as 'thatwriting fella'. Perhaps he got too close for [url=http://www.teatrodeoro.com/hollisterde.php]hollister deutschland[/url] comfort in hisstories. Or maybe it was his habit of retiring to bed for acouple of weeks [url=http://www.rtnagel.com/airjordan.php]jordan pas cher[/url] every once in a while with a bottle of whiskyand a copy of Shakespeare. You can never tell what these writingfellas are going to do next!
and he could be funny in an odd sort of way;
James Collins email:collinsdallasart@tiscali.co.uk
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