Piano 11

Scraped into the piano roll, despite its anonymity, for its striking image and location, with the piano coming from the abandoned city of Pripyat. One of the reference 1 collection of images.

Noticed here because the whole topic of the Chernobyl disaster came up just a few weeks ago, noticed at reference 2.

Brought to me today by MSN, that is to say the pot-pourri of news brought to my laptop by Microsoft's Edge browser. Mostly fairly rubbishy, but sometimes topical and sometimes interesting.

And over breakfast, I associated to the images of reference 5, the rather different ghosts of the state hospitals of the US, gone the same way as our own mental hospitals. First noticed at reference 4.

Reference 1: Ghosts of Chernobyl - Jeremy Schultz and Gleb Garanich, Reuters - 2019.

Reference 2: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2019/04/chernobyl.html.

Reference 3: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/.

Reference 4: https://pumpkinstrokemarrow.blogspot.com/search?q=Lawrence+State+Hospital+Ogdensburg.

Reference 5: Asylum - Christopher Payne, Oliver Sacks - 2009. With Amazon wanting around £25 for a new hardback, around £75 for a new paperback. Very odd. Not interested enough to research what I paid, but I doubt if it was anything like £75.