Pantechnicon van Pantechnicon van A Pantechnicon van, currently usually shortened to pantec, was originally a furniture removal van drawn by horses and used by the British company "The Pantechnicon" for delivering and collecting furniture which its customers wished to store. The name is a word largely of British English usage. The word "Pantechnicon" is an invented one, formed from the Greek "pan" ("all") and "techne" ("art"). It was originally the name of a large establishment in Motcomb Street, Belgravia, London, opened around 1830. It combined a picture gallery, a furniture shop, and the sale of carriages, while its southern half was a
A Piece of Monologue the walls now bare and uncluttered, he chose to let them remain that way. As James Knowlson puts it in "Damned to Fame" (p 650): “Life here emulated art, or at least echoed the mood that inspired it.” The oxymoron "Birth was the death of him" evokes a fusion of the two events. We find this in "Breath", in which a stage littered with rubbish is accompanied by a faint cry, followed by inspiration, silence, expiration, another cry and silence again. End of piece. To access his memories (i.e. to see the wall) the man in "Monologue" has first to