Iphigenia

Iphigenia
Matthew
Gokstad
Barcelona
Buenos Aires
Ireland
Breaking Bad
Arizona Highways

Rom.8:6
"For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace."

“The sheer technical skill of their journeys is a new achievement for the western world; and if one wants a symbol of Atlantic man that distinguishes him from Mediterranean man, a symbol to set against the Greek temple, it is the Viking ship. The Greek temple is static and solid. The ship is mobile and light.”~~~ Kenneth Clark: Civilisation. Ch1 The Skin of Our Teeth.

The beginning of the Gospel of St. Matthew, from the Lindisfarne Gospels

Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.).  Agamemnon.

"Heaven sends the vengeful fiends of hell.

Even so doth Zeus, the jealous lord

And guardian of the hearth and board,

Speed Atreus' sons, in vengeful ire,

'Gainst Paris-sends them forth on fire,

Her to buy back, in war and blood,

Whom one did wed but many woo'd!

And many, many, by his will,

The last embrace of foes shall feel,

And many a knee in dust be bowed,

And splintered spears on shields ring loud,

Of Trojan and of Greek, before

That iron bridal-feast be o'er!

But as he willed 'tis ordered all,

And woes, by heaven ordained, must fall-

Unsoothed by tears or spilth of wine

Poured forth too late, the wrath divine

Glares vengeance on the flameless shrine."

Oseberg ship, Oslo

Iona, Western Scotland

Chess: "Iphigenia" "Matthew" "Gokstad" "Barcelona

Buenos Aires" "Ireland" "Breaking Bad" "Arizona Highways"

Tantalus

Tantalus
Shoulder
Ivory
Gioacchino Assereto
Showbread
Deborah
Keats
Yeats

Rom.8:4
"That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit."

Gen.1:1
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."

"Bond shovelled the great wad of notes on to the table"~~~Ian Fleming

"The American liking for shortcuts in speech"~~~H. L. Mencken

Tantalus, oil painting circa 1640's, by Gioacchino Assereto

Gioacchino Assereto was an Italian painter of the early Baroque period and one of the most prominent history painters active in Genoa in the first half of the 17th century.

Showbread

Carved elephant ivory statuette of the Virgin and Child 1320–30 Victoria and Albert Museum

Tantalus

The House of Atreus begins with Tantalus. Tantalus was a son of Zeus who enjoyed cordial relations with the gods until he decided to slay his son Pelops and feed him to the gods as a test of their omniscience. Most of the gods, as they sat down to dinner with Tantalus, immediately understood what had happened, and, because they knew the nature of the meat they were served, were appalled and did not partake. But Demeter, who was distracted due to the abduction by Hades of her daughter Persephone, obliviously ate Pelops' shoulder. The gods threw Tantalus into the underworld, where he spends eternity standing in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree with low branches. Whenever he reaches for the fruit, the branches raise his intended meal from his grasp. Whenever he bends down to get a drink, the water recedes before he can drink. Thus is derived the word "tantalising". The gods brought Pelops back to life, replacing the bone in his shoulder with a bit of ivory, thus marking the family forever afterwards.

Chess: "Tantalus" "Shoulder" "Ivory" "Gioacchino Assereto" "Showbread" "Deborah" "Keats" "Yeats"

Crimson

Quantico 
Crimson
Colorado
Crimea
Cricket
Murder in the Orient Express
Agatha Christie

Rom.8:3
 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

U.S. Air Force Academy Chapel, Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Crimson red church door with decorations, found in Manchester.

Crimson Forest, Hokkaido, Japan. Photo via sonya 

 Cricket

Chess: "Crimson" "Colorado" "Crimea" "Cricket" "Murder in the Orient Express" "Agatha Christie" "Quantico"

Río Grande

Grand
Río Grande
Romance
San Antonio
George Lippard

Rom.8:1
"There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit."

“...that history must address the sensibility and imagination, as well as the understanding…history should speak to the heart.” ~~~George Lippard:

Legends of Mexico: The Battles of Taylor, en Graham’s Magazine, XXXIII June 1848

San Antonio, Texas

Chess: "Grand" "Grande" "Rio Grande" "San Antonio" "George Lippard" "Romance"

Ariana Grande

ARIANA GRANDE
Convocatoria
Billboard
Resort
Joe Bidden
Valla

Matt.22:9
"Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage."

Chess: "ARIANA GRANDE" "Convocatoria" "Billboard" "Resort" "Joe Bidden" "Valla"

Address to a Haggis

Address to a Haggis
Aristocracy
Nobility
Apple
Appeal
Orange

Matt.22:5
" But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:"

She sleeps: her breathings are not heard
In palace chambers far apart.
The fragrant tresses are not stirred
That lie upon her charmèd heart.	20
She sleeps; on either hand upswells
The gold-fringed pillow lightly prest:
She sleeps, nor dreams, but ever dwells
A perfect form in perfect rest.~~~Tennyson: Sleeping Beauty

Chess: "Address to a Haggis" "Aristocracy" "Nobility" "Apple" "Appeal" "Orange"

Calvin Klein

Calvin Klein
Three Witches
Variedades
"They had a ball"
Four Weddings and a Funeral

Matt.22:2
 "The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son,"

 

Henry Daniel Chadwick (British 1879 – 1896), “The Three Witches”

 English painter. Macbeth meeting the old hags as they cast a spell over their boiling cauldron saying Bubble, bubble toil and trouble. Scene in Shakespeare’s play first performed in c1606. Oil on canvas.The Three Witches of Macbeth have inspired several painters over the years who have sought to capture the supernatural darkness surrounding Macbeth’s encounters with them.A man of secretive character, Henry Chadwick lived in London but frequently changed his address. He painted figure compositions and portraits as well as some architectural views and seascapes. He exhibited in London at the Royal Academy and the Suffolk Street Gallery between 1879 and 1896

Four Weddings and a Funeral

Chess: "Calvin Klein" "Three Witches" "Variedades" "They had a ball" "Four Weddings and a Funeral" 

Jorge Luis Borges: Variación

 

 

Doy gracias a la luna por ser la luna, a los peces por ser los peces, a la piedra imán por ser el imán.
Doy gracias por aquel Alonso Quijano que, a fuer de crédulo lector, logró ser don Quijote.
Doy gracias por la torre de Babel, que nos ha dado la diversidad de las lenguas.
Doy gracias por la vasta bondad que inunda como el aire la tierra y por la belleza que acecha.
Doy gracias por aquel viejo asesino, que en una habitación desmantelada de la calle Cabrera, me dio          una naranja y me dijo: "No me gusta que la gente salga de mi casa con las manos vacías". Serían        las doce de la noche y no nos vimos más.
Doy gracias por el mar, que nos ha deparado la Odisea.
Doy gracias por un árbol en Santa Fe y por un árbol en Wisconsin.
Doy gracias a De Quincey por haber sido, a despecho del opio o por virtud del opio, De Quincey.
Doy gracias por los labios que no he besado, por las ciudades que no he visto.
Doy gracias a las mujeres que me han dejado o que yo he dejado, lo mismo da.
Doy gracias por el sueño en el que me pierdo, como en aquel abismo
      en que los astros no conocían su camino.
Doy gracias por aquella señora anciana que, con la voz muy tenue, dijo a quienes rodeaban su agonía       "Dejenmé morir tranquila" y después la mala palabra, que por única vez le oímos decir.
Doy gracias por las dos rectas espadas que Mansilla y Borges cambiaron,
      en la víspera de una de sus batallas.
Doy gracias por la muerte de mi conciencia y por la muerte de mi carne.
Sólo un hombre a quien no le queda otra cosa que el universo pudo haber escrito estas líneas.