MEIFUMADO

 

«Our lives are indestructible.

Immortal!

Though waves break and blood flies, never shrink.

Though my body falls, never quail.

 Though my eyes shut, my lips close…

Do not fear.

  In that world of rebirth,

I’m still your Father.

In that world and all worlds,

You are my Son!

We are Father and Child!

Forever!»

 

  

 

 

Scene no 88: Itto Ogami and son Daigoro (Improvized models and scenery by an unknown artist) abandoned the way of men to walk the demon path to hell. Always surrounded by enemies (Aoshima Japan History Miniature Model Series).

The text: From the twenty-eighth and final volume of the epic LONE WOLF AND CUB by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima.

YELLOW SUBMARINE

 

«So we sailed on to the sun

Till we found a sea of green

And we lived beneath the waves

In our yellow submarine.»

 

 

 

 

Scene no 87: The legendary submarine (Sutcliffe model, The Sea Wolf Atomic Submarine, boxed tinplate clockwork toy) is preparing to dive into the green sea of 60s pop music (McFARLANE Toys, The Beatles Yellow Submarine, Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band).

Lyrics: From the song “Yellow Submarine” by The Beatles.

THIS ENGLAND

This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle,

This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall
Or as a moat defensive to a house,

Against the envy of less happier lands,
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England,
This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings,
Feared by their breed and famous by their birth,
Renowned for their deeds as far from home

For Christian service and true chivalry.

 

                                                  

Scene no 86: English knights (Britains Swoppets, 15 th Century Knights, The Wars of the Roses, 10 different plastic figures) protect the throne which encloses the Stone of Scone (Britains Toys, Coronation Chair).

The lyrics of the play: By William Shakespeare. From «Richard II», Act 2, scene 1.

DUEL IN VENICE

«Elsewhere is a negative mirror. 

The traveler recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have.»

 «“Memory’s images once they are fixed in words, are erased” Polo said.

“Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once, if I speak of it, or perhaps, speaking of other cities, I have already lost it, little by little.” »

                        

                                                  

Scene no 85: Elizabethan swordsmen (Cherilea Toys, 4 different plastic figures) duel in the flowerbed (Britains Toys, Floral Garden), in front of Desdemona's mansion. (Signor Blum Wooden Toys, Palazzo Contarini-Fasan puzzle).

The text excerpts: From “Invisible Cities” by Italo Calvino.

SPACE-MASTER

«This is the command deck of the space-ship “Asteroid” and YOU are the captain, 

seated in the centre there in front of your impressive array of instruments.»

                            

 

 

Scene no 84: Venusians (Manurba Toys, astronauts, 3 different plastic figures) have just disembarked from their alien spaceship (Cherilea Toys, Mechanoid Space Pod). In the background the command deck of the Earthlings’ spaceship (Three dimensional pop-up picture from the book INTO SPACE WITH ACE BRAVE!)

The text: The first sentence from the aforementioned pop-up book (Birn Brothers Ltd. London 1955. Illustrated by Ron Turner.)

THE COVEN

«… Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches. This tells the story of how the goddess Diana had an incestuous affair with her brother Lucifer, and gave birth to Aradia (or Herodias); it was Aradia who eventually came down to earth and taught men and women the secrets of magic.»

                            

 

 

 

Scene no 83: Gathering of the witches. Scarlet Witch (Diamond Select Toys, Marvel Characters), Raven (DC COLLECTIBLES, Cover Girls of the DC Universe), and Zatanna (DC DIRECT, Cover Girls of the DC Universe, 3163 of 5000).

The text: From the introduction of the book WITCHES, by Colin Wilson.

SEVEN ROMANS

 

«For the safety of the Emperor, the vow that I,

Lucius Maximus Caetulicus, son of Lucius,

of the tribe Voltinia, from Vienna, made

as a new recruit in Legion XX Valeria Victrix

- to Imperial Victory, All-Divine and Most Reverend -

I have now fulfilled as chief centurion of

Legion I Italica, in the consulship of Marullus

and Aelianus, after 57 years of service.»

 

 

 

Scene no 82: Legionnaires of the Legio XX Valeria Victrix of the Imperial Roman Army (King and Country toy soldiers, Romans 2001) fight in a forest (Elastolin plastic trees) somewhere in Germania Inferior.

The text: Inscription of AD 184 from Novae in Lower Moesia.