Dec. 28th, 2010

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I posted a new entry. Check it out at:

http://www.altarflame.com/index.php/2010/12/sculpture-catholicism-tv-children/

This - "The Veiled Virgin", a marble sculpture - is blowing my mind tonight:



I mean...can you imagine making a transparent layer of flowy fabric on top of a
human face and head, as one chunk of rock, with some tools?



I've examined myself and come to the weird realization that part of the reason
why I [...]
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I posted a new entry. Check it out at:

http://www.altarflame.com/index.php/2010/12/words/

(that I cared enough to copy and paste into a notepad so as not to forget...)

Two Emily Dickinson poems posted by Regina Spektor on facebook:

1.)
I died for beauty, but was scarce
Adjusted in the tomb,
When one who died for truth was lain
In an adjoining room.

He questioned softly why I failed?
'For beauty,' I replied.
'And I for truth,-the [...]

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