19 August
Born in 1848 – Gustave Caillebotte, French painter and engineer.
Top: Paris Street, Rainy Day (1877)
Above: Detail of Paris Street, Rainy Day
Also, born in 1900, English philosopher, writer, and critic of Cartesian dualism Gilbert Ryle.
A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another. To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.
The man in the detail reminds me of Leonard Bast from Howard's End --didn't forget his umbrella this time!