Georgie doesn't like babies do you Georgie? Some days, Georgie, I think you behave like a bloke. - Peter Greenaway

Obviously, I am the cook. The cook is the director. He arranges the menu, the seating order of the guests; he gives refuge to the lovers; he prepares the repast of the lover's body. The cook is a perfectionist and a rationalist, a portrait of myself.

Hadrian... as you know an architect of note... put a lot of faith in stones... died peacefully... planning a Temple to Wisdom... still, he's dead. Nero -- best not to talk about him -- burnt Rome, caused untold misery, deserved to die; died screaming in a summerhouse.

Atlas, the man who carries the world, becomes the book of the maps of the world. An example of man, or God, into book. Few have that honour.