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Habakkuk 3:19
“The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.”
"for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths"~~~KEATS
Amish undershot water wheel, Pennsylvania
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) - Nymphs and Satyr (1873)
"A godlike race of heroes, who are called
The demi-gods—the race before our own.
Foul wars and dreadful battles ruined some;
Some sought the flocks of Oedipus, and died
In Cadmus' land, at seven-gated Thebes;
And some, who crossed the open sea in ships,
For fair-haired Helen's sake, were killed at Troy.
These men were covered up in death,
But Zeus the son of Kronos gave the others life
And homes apart from mortals, at Earth‟s edge.
And there they live a carefree life, beside
The whirling Ocean, on the Blessed Isles."~~~HESIOD: The Works and Days
The Lady and the Unicorn: À mon seul désir (Musée national du Moyen Âge, Paris)
CHAPTER 3
ROMANCE AND REALITY
"I am in the Gothic world, the world of chivalry, courtesy and romance; a world in which serious things were done with a sense of play - where even war and theology could become a sort of GAME; and when architecture reached a point of extravagance unequaled in history. After all the great unifying convictions of the twelfth century, High Gothic art can look fantastic and luxurious - what Marxists called conspicuous waste. And yet these centuries produced some of the greatest spirits in the history of man, amongst them St Francis of Assisi and Dante. Behind all the fantasy of the Gothic imagination there remained, on two different planes, a sharp sense of reality. Medieval man could see things very clearly, but he believed that these appearances should be considered as nothing more than symbols or tokens of an ideal order, which was the only true reality." ~~~Kenneth Clark
Amish undershot water wheel, Pennsylvania
"for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths"~~~KEATS
Chess: "Shakespeare" "Wheat" "Unicorn" "Pan" "Undershot Water Wheel"
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