Eyelids

stylish

Hers is the head upon which all
'the ends of the world are come',
and the eyelids are a little weary.

--Walter H. Pater

Describing the Mona Lisa,
but it might as well be Marilyn.

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Words of Wisdome

Staying young:

"Ah the luxury of floating factors, such is the way of joyful youth..."

-- Saleem Vahidy

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Happy Smiles

More picture book recommendations for your
adorable Marxist children available here.

Red Page

This page of mine
Is red in hue.

Red for the sun
and your tie too.

Red banners glow
Upon Red Square,

Happy smiles
Shine everywhere.

--Samuil Marshuk

Samuil Marshak. The Rainbow Book. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1974.

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Technique is Really Personality

Aubrey Beardsley pattern flocked paper. You can get it here.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music -- his own. To the great painter, there is only one manner of painting -- that which he himself employs. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can appreciate all forms and all modes. It is to him that Art makes her appeal.

Oscar Wilde. The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Volume IV: Criticism: Historical Criticism, Intentions, The Soul of Man. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2007.

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