Steel

Constitution
Ferrum 
Iron Age 
Steel
Venice
Marco 

2 Chronicles 15:7
“Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded.”

Psalm 16:8
"I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Of Arthur, who, to upper light restored,
With that terrific sword,
Which yet he brandishes for future war,
Shall lift his country's fame above the polar star!~~~Wordsworth

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CHAPTER I. — THE QUARRY.
[FIRST OF THE OLD EDITION.]
SECTION I. Since the first dominion of men was asserted over the ocean, three thrones, of mark beyond all others, have been set upon its sands: the thrones of Tyre, Venice, and England. Of the First of these great powers only the memory remains; of the Second, the ruin; the Third, which inherits their greatness, if it forget their example, may be led through prouder eminence to less pitied destruction.

The exaltation, the sin, and the punishment of Tyre have been recorded for us, in perhaps the most touching words ever uttered by the Prophets of Israel against the cities of the stranger. But we read them as a lovely song; and close our ears to the sternness of their warning: for the very depth of the Fall of Tyre has blinded us to its reality, and we forget, as we watch the bleaching of the rocks between the sunshine and the sea, that they were once "as in Eden, the garden of God."

Her successor, like her in perfection of beauty, though less in endurance of dominion, is still left for our beholding in the final period of her decline: a ghost upon the sands of the sea, so weak—so quiet,—so bereft of all but her loveliness, that we might well doubt, as we watched her faint reflection in the mirage of the lagoon, which was the City, and which the Shadow.

I would endeavor to trace the lines of this image before it be for ever lost, and to record, as far as I may, the warning which seems to me to be uttered by every one of the fast-gaining waves, that beat, like passing bells, against the STONES OF VENICE.~~~Ruskin

 

 

Chess: "Constittution" "Ferrum" "Iron Age" "Venice" "Marco" "Steel" 

Regal

Regal 
Admiral 
Louis XVI: Mallorca y Menorca
Byng
Policy 
Polity
Government

John 5:24
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.” 

 

 

 

  "a body politique never dieth"~~~Milton

 

 

Candice
 

 

 

 

Fruity Pebbles
 

 

 

Chess: "Regal" "Admiral" "Louis XVI: Mallorca y Menorca" "Byng" "Policy" "Government" "Polity"

Greek

Life 
Vida 

𝑰𝒏 𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒌 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕, 𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒂 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒔𝒚𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒎; 𝒊𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒂𝒄𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒃𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒎𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒚𝒐𝒖.

𝑹𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒂𝒓 𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒎𝒂𝒓 𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒆.

Philippians 1:3
“I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,”  

Chess: "Life" "Vida" "Memento"

🔥 2. El acto de recordar en la Biblia: memoria como fidelidad
En la Escritura, recordar es un acto relacional y covenantal. No es mirar hacia atrás, sino mantener viva una relación.

Tres movimientos aparecen siempre:

Recordar es volver a unir: lo que está lejos se acerca.

Recordar es responder: la memoria exige acción, gratitud, intercesión.

Recordar es fidelidad: Dios “recuerda” su pacto, y su recuerdo es siempre un acto de amor que sostiene.

Por eso, cuando el salmista dice “Acuérdate, Señor”, no está pidiendo que Dios recupere información, sino que actúe conforme a su amor.

Y cuando el ser humano recuerda, participa de esa misma lógica: recordar es amar activamente.

Stonehenge

British Teotihuacán 
Stonehenge 
Firestone

Stony Point

Tenuous 

Tennessee

Blue 

Psalms 16:8
“I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.”

 

 2 Chronicles 15:7
“Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 CHAPTER I. — THE QUARRY.
[FIRST OF THE OLD EDITION.]
SECTION I. Since the first dominion of men was asserted over the ocean, three thrones, of mark beyond all others, have been set upon its sands: the thrones of Tyre, Venice, and England. Of the First of these great powers only the memory remains; of the Second, the ruin; the Third, which inherits their greatness, if it forget their example, may be led through prouder eminence to less pitied destruction.

The exaltation, the sin, and the punishment of Tyre have been recorded for us, in perhaps the most touching words ever uttered by the Prophets of Israel against the cities of the stranger. But we read them as a lovely song; and close our ears to the sternness of their warning: for the very depth of the Fall of Tyre has blinded us to its reality, and we forget, as we watch the bleaching of the rocks between the sunshine and the sea, that they were once "as in Eden, the garden of God."

Her successor, like her in perfection of beauty, though less in endurance of dominion, is still left for our beholding in the final period of her decline: a ghost upon the sands of the sea, so weak—so quiet,—so bereft of all but her loveliness, that we might well doubt, as we watched her faint reflection in the mirage of the lagoon, which was the City, and which the Shadow.

I would endeavor to trace the lines of this image before it be for ever lost, and to record, as far as I may, the warning which seems to me to be uttered by every one of the fast-gaining waves, that beat, like passing bells, against the STONES OF VENICE.~~~Ruskin

 

 

 

 

 

Shakespeare

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chess: "British Teotihuacán" "Stonehenge" "Firestone" "Stony Point" "Tenuous" "Blue"

Rockwell

Rockwell

Tom Sawyer
Saw

Sierra 


Isaiah 32:2
“And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.”

 

 

 

 

"The omnipresent Sitka fog had once more descended upon the 𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑟; this time so heavily that even the tips of the two masts were invisible from the deck, so Corey and Kane assured the endangered slave: 'We'll probably be in this soup two more days. You're safe.' And to celebrate they broke out a bottle of good Jamaican rum, and there in Sitka Sound, protected by the volcano and the circle of unseen mountains, they reveled. When Raven-heart felt the fine dark liquid exciting his throat, he relaxed and told the Americans of the many pelts he had helped assemble for them, and they were so pleased by this intelligence that they in turn show him the goods that they had brought from Boston to enrich his Tlingits.
'These are the casks of rum,' Captain Corey said, indicating the eighteen barrels stowed in safety belowdecks, 'and what do you suppose these are?' Raven-heart, with a copper ring through the septum of his nose, studied the dozen squared-off rectangular wooden cases, and said: 'Me not know,' whereupon Crey ordered a sailor to draw the nails—'And save them'—from one of the lids, and there, nestled in oil-soaked rags, lay nine beautiful rifles, and below them, in similar ranks of nine, twenty-seven others. These twelve boxes, packed in orderly manner by the gunsmiths of Boston, contained four hundred and thirty-two first class long-barreled  rifles, and the kegs stowed behind had enough powder to last  two years, along with supplies of lead for bullets and molds in which to make them."~~~James A. Michener: ALASKA. Ch. 6 Lost Worlds

 

 

 

Chess: "Rockwell" "Tom Sawyer" "Saw" "Sierra"

 𝐁𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐔𝐃𝐀

🐟 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐮𝐝𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐎𝐥𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐚

In his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, barracudas are mentioned in the famous final scene. After the old man, Santiago, returns from his ordeal at sea with only the skeleton of the great marlin, a group of tourists at the Terrace restaurant sees the remains in the water.

The passage, which you can see referenced by a sketch artist who visited the real-life location in Cuba , reads:

    "That afternoon there was a party of tourists at the Terrace and looking down in the water among the empty beer cans and dead barracudas a woman saw a great long white spine with a huge tail at the end that lifted and swung with the tide..." 

This detail poignantly highlights how the majesty of Santiago's struggle is reduced to mere "garbage" among the discarded items in the harbor, with the dead barracudas serving as a stark contrast to the living, vibrant sea life Hemingway often described. 

 

 

 

 

 

 Psalms 125:3
“For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.” 

 

 

 

Barracuda
 

Baroque

Barracuda

Baroque
Barometer
Empedrado 
Muro 
Límite
Bar 

Psalms 125:3
“For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.”

 "his addiction to a baroque luxuriance of language"~~~Orville Prescott 

"The school has always served as a social barometer, a reflection of national historical trends."~~~Paul P. Mok

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chess: "Empedrado" "Muro" "Límite" "Bar" "Baroque" "Barometer"

Browning

 𝐂𝐈𝐓𝐘 𝐎𝐅 𝐋𝐎𝐒 𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐒 𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐎 𝐋𝐎𝐒 𝐀́𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐒?

𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠’𝐬 𝐏𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐨 𝐨 𝐈𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐨? 

 

 

 

Virgin and Child, Giacomo Pacchiarotto

 

 

 

 

Los Angeles, 1984

 

 
Jorge: —Was  Pacchiarotto a real painter ? 

𝐂𝐎𝐏𝐈𝐋𝐎𝐓: -Yes — Pacchiarotto was a real painter, though Browning turns him into a satirical emblem rather than a strict historical portrait.

The historical figure
The painter behind Browning’s poem is Giacomo Pacchiarotti (also called Jacopo Pacchiarotto), born in Siena around 1474 and active into the mid‑16th century. He worked primarily as a religious painter, producing frescoes and tempera panels, and his style shows the influence of Sienese masters like Bernardino Fungai and Matteo di Giovanni. Several of his works are still preserved in Siena today, including paintings in the Pinacoteca Nazionale. 

Pacchiarotti also had a political side: historical records suggest he was involved in Siena’s resistance against Florentine domination, and at one point he fled to France, where he worked alongside Rosso Fiorentino at Fontainebleau. 

Browning’s Pacchiarotto
Browning knew these biographical fragments, but he does not write a biography. Instead, he uses Pacchiarotto as:

a mask for himself,

a symbol of the artist misunderstood by authority and critics,

and a vehicle for comic, defiant self‑defense.

The poem exaggerates Pacchiarotto’s rebelliousness, turning him into a swaggering truth‑teller who lectures popes, emperors, the public, and even Art itself. That theatrical orator you analyzed in Stanza VI is Browning’s invention, not a documented episode from Pacchiarotti’s life.

Why Browning chose him
Pacchiarotti was ideal for Browning because:

he was real but obscure, giving Browning freedom to reshape him,

he lived in a time of artistic and political tension,

and his name itself has a slightly comic sound, which suits Browning’s satirical tone.

Browning even signals this transformation in the poem’s subtitle:
“Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper” — where distemper means both a painting technique and a state of agitation.

𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐳𝐚 𝐕𝐈 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐲 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠

𝑊ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑒, 𝑑𝑟𝑦,—ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑚,
𝐶𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑝𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒, 𝑤𝑎𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑟𝑢𝑠ℎ, 𝑑𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑚
𝑂𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑖,
𝐴𝑛𝑑, 𝑏𝑜𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑐𝑘 𝑗𝑎𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑦,
𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑢𝑝𝑜𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑝 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑,
𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡, 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑,
𝐻𝑒 𝑎𝑑𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛
𝐻𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑘 𝑜𝑓 𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛,
𝑇𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑑𝑢𝑡𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛.
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑜𝑝𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑡
𝐼𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑡 𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒, 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑡.
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑜𝑟—𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑡ℎ 𝑚𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑡𝑎𝑥 ℎ𝑖𝑚
𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑥𝑖𝑚
"𝑆ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑓𝑙𝑎𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚!"
𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑉𝑢𝑙𝑔𝑎𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚,
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑅𝑢𝑙𝑒𝑑, 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙-𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑅𝑢𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔,
𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑤ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔
𝑂𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑘𝑛𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑓𝑜𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔.
𝐴𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝐴𝑟𝑡—𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 '𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑢𝑚? 𝑃𝑜𝑜ℎ-𝑝𝑜𝑜ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑠
𝐵𝑦 𝑃𝑜𝑒𝑡𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑔𝑢𝑒 𝑢𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑙𝑒𝑤𝑑 𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠,
𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑃𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑝𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑛𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠!

Support

Godly 
Glow 
Support

Acts 20:35
“I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.”

 

"an island not widely sundered from the continent"~~~Winston Churchill 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chess: "Godly" "Glow" "Support"

Base

Base 
Foundation 
United States 

Psalms 108:3
“I will praise thee, O LORD, among the people: and I will sing praises unto thee among the nations.”

                                          

 
Chess: "Base" "Foundation" "United States" "Tower Bridge" "Baseball" "Basil"