The Prof's Sig
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 5:32 pm
I'm interested in the origin's of The Prof's signature:
Far away is near at hand in visions of elsewhere....
Back in 1975 I used to commute up to Paddington, and just before we arrived at the station there was some grafitti painted on a wall in large neat white letters:
Far away is close at hand in images of elsewhere
Being an impressionble 18 year old wannabe hippy I found this to be very profound and I looked out for this phrase every day. It was there for years - possibly up to 10 years, I can't now remember, until part of the wall was re-built and so bits of the grafitti were lost. I always wondered about it - who wrote it and where it had come from. Was it a quotation from a song or poem?
The Prof's sig is so close to this I wondered if you could shed any light on it for me. :bunny:
Far away is near at hand in visions of elsewhere....
Back in 1975 I used to commute up to Paddington, and just before we arrived at the station there was some grafitti painted on a wall in large neat white letters:
Far away is close at hand in images of elsewhere
Being an impressionble 18 year old wannabe hippy I found this to be very profound and I looked out for this phrase every day. It was there for years - possibly up to 10 years, I can't now remember, until part of the wall was re-built and so bits of the grafitti were lost. I always wondered about it - who wrote it and where it had come from. Was it a quotation from a song or poem?
The Prof's sig is so close to this I wondered if you could shed any light on it for me. :bunny:
