The Ruin - by JT Welsch

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Notes The Pilgrim Certain lines adapted from The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918. Klee visited Tunisia from April 7th to 19th, 1914, with August Macke and Louis Moilliet. The Trains Margin comments from The Traveller’s Handbook to Algeria and Tunisia, Thomas Cook (London, 1926). The House The Lars Homestead exterior set in the Chott El-Djerid, near Nefta, was built in 1976, re-built in 2000, and restored by fans in 2012. The Sea After an interview with Emily Brothers, ‘Labour’s first transgender candidate’ (Guardian, January 2015). The Desert First line from T.S. Eliot, Choruses from The Rock (1934). The City After a description in Erich Franz, ‘August Macke’s Tunisia Watercolors’ in The Journey to Tunisia, 1914: Paul Klee, August Macke, Louis Moilliet (Hatje Cantz, 2014). The Village The Mos Espa set, eleven miles north of Nefta, was built in 1997, and will shortly be buried by a migrating sand dune. Pictured in Proof. The Leg of Hare Mosaic, Musée Archéologique de Sousse. 43


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