MARK JENKIN: His latest film, Enys Men, has stirred up a fair amount of hype, but today Cornish filmmaker Mark Jenkin appears in a Q&A at BFI Southbank, alongside a retrospective of his earlier, short works. 6.20pm TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHY: Time's also running out to see More Travels with My Camera, a free exhibition of travel photography at Barbican Library. View street and portrait photography from Africa, Asia and Latin America by Adrian Whittle, who has also written the stories behind some of the images. Some of the works are for sale, too. FREE, until 28 January Mark was living an altogether different life. His fleeting sexual encounters with both men and women are rendered life-size with vaseline and details of the grey-white British body of the 1960s no-one under fifty remembers. Torremolinos was a thing by 1976. He tells one lover "you've got a tide mark". (Hello nan. I've got a bit better at washing these days.) Equally he takes a friend's children to the seaside...bet it was Brighton...and feeds them nothing but sugar all day and sinks into the melancholy that was to destroy him. A posthumously published novel by gay, working class poet Mark Hyatt written 2 years before the Sexual Offences Act of 1967 and only recently rediscovered. In the song "Power and Glory" from Lou Reed's 1992 album Magic and Loss, Reed recalls the experience of seeing his friend dying of cancer and makes reference to the myth, "I saw isotopes introduced into his lungs / trying to stop the cancerous spread / And it made me think of Leda and The Swan / and gold being made from lead" [ citation needed]

I’m going to work. Make yourself at home, but close the door if you go out,’ he says quietly, and closes the door on himself. HISTORY OF SPEED: Be at the world premiere screening of new documentary Rapid Motion Through Space, at the Royal Institution. The feature-length film focuses on the many incarnations of speed and how it affects us all on land, sea, sky, space and even in our thoughts. The event includes a panel discussion with a group of experts, including director Trent Burton. 7pm-9.30pm See also: Leda and the Swan (Leonardo) Leda and the Swan, copy by Cesare da Sesto after a lost original by Leonardo, 1515–1520, Oil on canvas, Wilton House, England. Bacchiacca (Francesco d'Ubertino): Leda and the Swan | Work of Art | Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of ArtClouds of smoke drift up and hang under the ceiling like a support. I wonder how many houses have burnt down tonight. Far too many. Ron sits down. An unearthed treasure of its time, Mark Hyatt’s compelling and emotive novel Love, Leda recounts a whirlwind of intimacies and embodiment, philosophy and humour, in a daring depiction of queer desire, impulse and need, laced through a context of disconnection. With an intensity of life-in-motion, a lyric of spirit and survival in pursuit of the existential, Hyatt vividly conjures his protagonist’s navigation of an era’s incipient edges. An absorbing, melancholy odyssey of love both transactional and yearned-for, the publication of Love, Leda honours a unique literary voice rediscovered.’ – Peter Scalpello, author of Limbic H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) also wrote a poem called "Leda" in 1919, suggested to be from the perspective of Leda. The description of the sexual action going on makes it seem almost beautiful, as if Leda had given her consent.

Surely if one's self can love Christ for what He was and what He did, then one's self should be able to love modern man. But people call it something different these days. The dead man becomes religion; the living becomes homosexuality. Either I am in the middle, neither one thing or the other, or I am a madman looking at life upside down. p. 111 OK, Mr Smith. That’s nice. So, where shall we go? Shall we try this road, here? Oh, look, Mr Smith, it’s called Chester Road. We’ve just driven all the way from Chester.’ JUBILEE EXTENSIONS: When they opened in 1999, the Jubilee line extension stations were hailed as "the biggest architectural sensation of their kind since the Moscow Underground". Almost quarter of a century down the (Jubilee) line, join former head of design and heritage for Transport for London, Mike Ashworth, on a tour taking in Westminster, Southwark, North Greenwich and Canary Wharf. 11am-2.30pm VICE CITY: Mudlarking uncovers some pretty fruity remnants of London's past, as Malcolm Russell, author of Mudlark'd: Hidden Histories from the River Thames, reveals during a talk tonight in Rotherhithe. Expect stories of opium smoking, gambling, gin guzzling and the sex trade. 7.30pm-9pm

Chen, Xi (5 February 2021). "Being So Caught up: Exploring Religious Projection and Ethical Appeal in Leda and the Swan". Religions. MDPI. 12 (2): 107. doi: 10.3390/rel12020107. Australian artist Sidney Nolan produced at least a dozen interpretations of Leda and the Swan in the 1950s and 1960s, connected with his work on the myths of the Trojan War and World War I. [8] Look, when you live in a one-bed-sitter, one doesn’t get to know people. It’s only by night that other people live with me.’ Another account of the myth states that Nemesis (Νέμεσις) was the mother of Helen, and was also impregnated by Zeus in the guise of a swan. A shepherd found the egg and gave it to Leda, who carefully kept it in a chest until the egg hatched. When the egg hatched, Leda adopted Helen as her daughter. Zeus also commemorated the birth of Helen by creating the constellation Cygnus (Κύκνος), the Swan, in the sky. The letter] ended with a reference to the law. ‘Connection per anum’ was the phrase used. There was something about the baldness of this, the baldness of the link between the act – fascinating in its crudity, as an expression of human need – and the calculated viciousness of the penalty, that horrified him.