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By Hole Ousia Posted on July 3, 2016January 26, 2023

Gripped by an intense desire for the present

Pitfour Estate near Mintlaw, Aberdeenshire Pitfour Mansion House was demolished in 1929 however some of the designed landscape survives such as the Lake and the Temple of Theseus. At one … Continue reading Gripped by an intense desire for the present

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By Hole Ousia Posted on April 22, 2016January 24, 2023

The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike

Pitfour Mansion House was demolished in 1929 however some of the designed landscape survives such as the Lake and the Temple of Theseus. At one point, when walking through partly … Continue reading The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike

Categories: Architecture, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 17th century antiquary, a modern ruin, Abbey, Adam Nicolson, An unstudied road, Antiquary, Blenheim, Brideshead Revisited, clockmakers, comet seekers, Commonplace book, crocodile, Demolished, discovery of the scholarly gardener recalled, Distance and Memory, Dr John Byrom, Dr Peter Gordon, Evelyn Waugh, Ferguson, fountain, Frank Clark prize, Gabriel García Márquez, gentle gardener, Gilpin, Goldfrapp, gripped by an intense desire for the present, Hale Bopp, Hawk, head over heals, his desire to extend Scottish culture through engagement with other times and places, Hole Ousia, I am part of all that I have met, it was seven-twenty when he finished winding the clock, Its landscape turned into thought, John Aubrey, John Byrom, Julian Barnes, Kenneth Calman, Landscape Architecture, Mintlaw, MLA distinction, Modern Ruin, my own life, Numbers can mean everything and nothing., Old Deer, Omphalos, Omphalos films, once more we stood by the fountain, Patrick Deeley, Peter Davidson, Peter Gordon, Peter J Gordon, picturesque, Pitfour, Pitfour Estate, Pitfour Mansion House was demolished in 1929, rebel antiquary, Richard Holloway, ruin, ruins, RUINS in Aberdeenshire, Scottish Chapter Prize, Social maverick, St Peter's Seminary, steading, Temple, Temple of Theseus, The Antiquary, The clock on the ruined steading has hands that have stopped at 3.15, The Comet Seekers, The constant tug between nature and civilisation, The Gentle Gardener, the northern nostalgia for a southern elsewhere, The Rebel Antiquary, the romantic and the realist battled, the stars move still time runs the clock will strike, Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, Utopia, Will Cohu, William S Gilpin

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