I'm Dai Harding, I live and work in Cardiff - these past few months I moved into a new studio in Mill Lane ( opposite the Marriot Hotel and above the Juboraj Restaurant entrance) - the 'Cafe Quarter' as the Cardiff city fathers would have it. My art website and other information is at www.daiharding.com
Dr Franklyn has an all night practice on Caroline St - just around the corner from me - and can often be found in discourse at the Hayes Island Snackbar. He spent 15 years shipwrecked on an undisclosed island in the Indian Ocean and is happy to drink tea in all weathers. ( I think the island was near the Andamans off the Mergui Archipelago - but he's not saying) I've been unable to find any record of photographs of the good Dr and he won't let me take one - but luckily through a friend at Limoges Bibliothèque Municipale we managed to unearth just this one.
Now he's even more of a mystery to me - the photograph isn't dated but the friend at the Bibliothèque says it was found in documents to do with the American poet E.E.Cummings. I know a fair bit about Alfred Jarry the 'Inventor' of Pataphysics - there's also plenty on the Web about him. Jarry died in 1907 and the college itself was 'inaugurated' in 1948. The main founders being - Marcel Duchamp, Eugene Ionesco, Max Ernst, Jean Dubuffet - and others. The continued existence of the original college is in doubt, but affiliated colleges spring up all over the world. I hope Dr Franklyn will be a little more forthcoming.
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