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Report of the Krakatoa Committee of the Royal Society (1888),
p. 159.
18 Ibid., pp. 384-405.
19 Log account of eruption of Krakatoa, Lapworth Museum, University
of Birmingham, l161.
7 'The Night had Vanished': Vorticism and the Volcano
1 Entry for 8 May 1902, in
A Victorian Diarist - Later Extracts from
the Journals of Mary, Lady Monkswell
,
1895-1909
, ed. the Hon.
E.F.C. Collier (London, 1946), p. 87.
2 'Letter to the Editor: The Great Eruption of 1868 in Hawaii',
The Times
, 17 May 1902.
3 Patrick Leigh Fermor,
The Violins of Saint-Jacques
[1953]
(Harmondsworth, 1961), p. 10.
4 Ibid., p. 36.
5 Ibid., p. 108.
6 Ibid., p. 118.
7 Ibid., p. 125.
8 Ibid., p. 14.
9 Teresa A. Carbone, ed.,
American Painters in the Brooklyn Museum:
Artists born by 1876
(London and New York, 2006) vol. i, pp. 396-8.
10 The original reads: '
La cenere, l 'oscurità, i boati, la paura percorrendo
la via da Napoli a Resina
/ E. Dalbono 11 Aprile 1906'.
11 For information on twentieth-century Icelandic art see Julian
Freeman, ed.,
Landscapes from a High Latitude: Icelandic Art
1909-1989
(London, 1989); and
Confronting Nature: Icelandic Art
of the 20th Century
, exh. cat., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington,
dc (2001).
12 I am grateful to Ari Trausti Gudmundsson and Orri Magnusson
for information about Gudmundur Einarsson, Ari Trausi
Gudmundsson's father.
13 'Atl' means 'water' in the indigenous Aztec language Nahuatl.
Information on Dr Atl from the essay by Simon Grant in the booklet
The Fall: Stefan Brüggeman and Dr Atl
, produced by Bloomberg lp
(2008).
14 Ibid., unpaginated.
15 Eugène Ionesco, in the Introduction to Katia and Maurice Krafft,
Volcano
(New York, 1975).
8 The Shifting Furnace
1 Now known to migrate from the Arctic to Europe in the spring, these
birds seen flying from beyond the horizon were in the Middle Ages
