March 4, 2019

8.00 am: Catch-up! I dealt with emails that couldn’t be completed while I was away, affixed images to three days of this dairy, fixed appointments to my teaching timetable, dealt with postgraduate applications, and considered by contribution to this evening’s event. However quickly I pushed ahead, these tasks absorbed far more time than I was comfortable affording them.

1.30 pm: Studiology. Following a quick lunch, I returned to ‘All Scripture’ and the opening clause: ‘All Scripture is given by the inspiration of God’. I took the first two words of the clause and slowed them down so that the ‘hiss’ and ‘whoosh’ of the spoken words as they died away became pronounced. The sound is like that of an exhaled breath – the concept summoned by the original Greek rendering for ‘inspiration’ (literally ‘breathed out’).

I extracted the breaths from the clause in order to test their integrity independently of the context. The results were promising. So, I committed myself to the full-scale extraction of the same from the entire verse. Thereafter came the tedious but necessary processing, to the end of generating the raw materials for composition.

Rain and hail pounded against my Velux window, a house alarm twittered in the near distance, and a chainsaw buzzed a few gardens away. Listening to my own noises against this backdrop was a challenge.

5.15 pm: I walked to the Arts Centre to ready myself to the evening’s duties. Proceedings began at the Rivers of Gold exhibition in Gallery 2:

Later, I was the warm-up act for Mark Macklin – lubricating the audience and getting them in the mood, as it were:

Photograph courtesy of Jacqueline Harvey

I spoke about The Rivers of Gold project in relation to John Ruskin’s book The King of the Golden River (1841). Mark and Judy (the dynamic husband and wife duo) acquitted themselves very well. [Note: Ruskin died in 1900 not ‘1990’, as stated in my speech.]

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