Thursday, June 14, 2007
rathe...
rather late for me to be asking this, but if you would like a postcard from the gallipoli trip i am about to embark on (for a week!), do comment with your address! (especially you, Sarah, as I can't find your address anywhere, and you must have one from you know where!)i leave at 20:30 GMT! take care, everyone!
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it's adorable, isn't it?i don't think there is a legend as such, but it's a detail from a greek skyphos, of a satyr swinging a maenad. the painter is called "the penelope painter", i guess because he's also the artist of this lovely piece depicting telemachos and penelope.
I do have yours, darling, thank you! I've been carrying it in my purse since last time, and I have every intention of sending you a postcard or two or three! :)thank you for the lovely one you sent from Paris, also, which arrived the other day and made me very very happy! tell me, did you visit Notre Dame?
yes! indeed, I did, and it was ever so beautiful. I lit a candle with my siblings for our relatives gone & going. Imagine going to mass there every Sunday! I went to mass at the basilica at Lourdes, in France, a few years ago, which I thought was magical enough (the place is so moving; I walked to the shrine in the rain, and stood there for hours watching the candles flicker, before walking home, soaked).I was talking to my father about the ornate buildings, and I was complaining about the fact that no one ever builds anything as beautiful, anymore. He said that a builder would have been trained as an apprentice for some thirty odd years before being fully skilled, and then would have got paid what today we'd call a pittance. A MacDonald's worker gets paid more these days...all those skills lost, it is heartbreaking.
oh it sounds ever so beautiful! i have never been to mass, of course, but it always makes me think of the chris de burgh song, "the old cathedral lights are low, she and i, we'd often go there to admire, and sometimes, kneel in prayer".& i mourn precisely the same subject! oh, all those greek & roman buildings drive me almost to tears with the beauty of what once they may have been, and indeed, even what they are now. i am writing a story about the construction of the parthenon, actually, but it takes me ages to finish anything! but i still don't see why beautiful things cannot still be built; 'tis ridiculous and depressing to walk in these soulless monstrosities.
oh i love greek mythology & art & architecture; i shall try and post more when i have time! :)
oh i love greek mythology & art & architecture; i shall try and post more when i have time! :)
i've got it i've got it! thanks a lot! my fault for losing it in the first place and not asking before!must dash!
you must ! :)
Sorry for the delay of my response, but this picture it's beautiful.
i'm glad you think so too! the ancient greeks were incredible people.
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