To be of use The people I love the best jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight. They seem to become natives of that element, the black sleek heads of seals bouncing like half-submerged balls. I love people who harness themselves, an…
I am content to be a bric-a-bracker and a Ceramiker. The very “marks” on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy. — Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad, Chapter XX http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/119
The Greco-Roman Pantheon is made up of archetypes which have affected art, literature, and our thinking for centuries. Among the gods and goddesses with which we’ve become familiar is Venus, Aphrodite, the goddess of beauty, love, procreation, and pleasure. Botticelli’s depiction of her in The Birth of Venus is the soul of beauty. Rising from…
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