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hildegard says:
It's the one on the Embankment - my fave in London; from David Wallis & v trad. Proper organ music, classic paintways, etc, etc. :)
OJ says:
I've never noted the makers of carousels I've photographed - but looking back through photos tagged "Carousel" I think my pictures of the black horses might have been the same maker. They certainly look like some Helen took.
Do you know much about the subject Hildegard?
hildegard says:
Nah - just a fangirl.
David Wallis own, rather than manufacture rides & not being steam-powered, this is just a trad-style ride rather than the Real Thing. Not that I care; the horses have names, the colours are good modern equivalents of the old stuff, they play trad style music & every kid on there had a huge smile.
What more does one need? :)
hildegard says:
Gael - only the fact that I'd just swallowed saved my keyboard from coffee spray. ;)
A carousel where the horses are named Foucault, Irigaray, Cixous, Krell, Dastour, etc? We can run with this one - call the ride "The Eternal Return of the Same", maybe have a chainswing called Spinoza... Hall of mirrors has to be "Camera Lucida"...
Gael says:
that's today's displacement activity sorted then ...
big shout out for Baudrillard's Disneyland for starters ...
hildegard says:
Don't forget the famous Chez Wittgenstein Casino, featuring live shows in the Adorno Lounge, & the Phenomenological Funhouse for the young & young-at-heart...
Going with the Disney theme, and to prove that I'm a good post-colonialist, "It's a Small World" could have boats named after Homi Bhabha, Edward Said, Ngugi waThiong' o, etc
anon was me
The Haunted House would be a bit full wouldn't it? Theorists seem to be dropping like flies these days. Maybe theorists don't decompose, they just deconstruct ...
hildegard says:
Madame Sadie Plant, Futurologist, reads your palm, Mme Anna Powell, Surrealist, reads your elbow...
The famous Austrian knife throwing act, Erwin Schrodinger, performing blindfold, with his assistant encased in a paper box... and of course, for the more adventurous there are the white knuckle rides, like the existential rollercoaster - 'La Nausée'...
Gael says:
I concede defeat. You are a high wire aerialist to my earth-bound circus dwarf. This has been very good revision for me though ; )
*wanders off to have a last glance at Msr. Lacan's Hall of Mirrors*
hildegard says:
Now that's a mean trick - you've gone & populated a whole theme park memory palace for me & left me to wander it alone. ;)
Ho hum - a trip to Alton Towers might exorcise it...
Gael says:
This has inspired me to tackle an essay on Post Modernism!
If it all goes pear-shaped I'll know who to blame ; )
'scuse me while I don my Lyotard and down a hefty dose of Jameson ...
