Nicrap, your talk about beetles brought back a childhood memory.
While camping one summer, my brother found a huge beetle and made it his pet. He tied a string around it and walked it. That night, the bug tried to fly away, so my brother flew it like a kite. :p
Well Trygaeus, I was going to comment that the picture reminded me of a Hubble Space Telescope photo, perhaps a Magellanic Cloud or Nebula, but then there weren't enough stars in the background.
Had it NOT been a face... I wonder if the associations would have been harder to shake... as "faces" are processed in a different region of the brain from "things".
Or, to put it another way: redemption follows fall.
Madness is the lowest point of humanity to which God submitted in His incarnation, thereby showing that there is nothing inhuman in man that could not be redeemed or saved; the ultimate point of the Fall was glorified by the divine presence: and this is the lesson which, for the seventeenth cetury, all madness still taught.
The painting of Moliere lends itself to the interpretation I gave... as he is dressed in Roman garb, holds the consular staff of power of an "imperator" and wears a crown of "laurel" that more closely approximates a holly Christmas/ Saturnalia wreath...
He titled himself Prince of Fools, 'a title disputed by Valenti le Comte and JAcques Resneau: there follow pamphlets, a trial, arguments; his lawyer declares and certifies him to be "an empty head, a gutted gourd, lacking in common sense; a cane, a broken brain, that has neither spring nor whole wheel in his head."'
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Ha!
You see a beetle?
:-)
You DO have imagination!
Buona notte! ;-)
Nyt nyt.
1. Jen had a beetle;
2. Jen became a beetle;
3. Jen killed a beetle and then stuffed it.
;)
It's actually a man's face in profile. :-)
While camping one summer, my brother found a huge beetle and made it his pet. He tied a string around it and walked it. That night, the bug tried to fly away, so my brother flew it like a kite. :p
Now you indeed killed the beetle for me. ;)
Fly, fly, fly! ;)
I suppose that once you begin the process of making certain "paranoiac" associations, it's hard to "untie" them. :P
Interesting.
I never did see it!
No imagination! :p
I hate it when I see faces that won't go away. (That sounds totally creepy, but you know what I mean!)
Just focus on the lighted part.
@fj
Let's not fall into a determinism. Instead, there is always the Fall and the Redemption. ;)
Thanks for trying!
Good timing, nicrap.
Madness is the lowest point of humanity to which God submitted in His incarnation, thereby showing that there is nothing inhuman in man that could not be redeemed or saved; the ultimate point of the Fall was glorified by the divine presence: and this is the lesson which, for the seventeenth cetury, all madness still taught.
a lesson now forgotten. :)
Long live all Starfish in a world of Spiders (being)!
Nomads, arise! Your time draws near. :P
Why "forum" and not "fourbum"?
Whereas a forum imperator would be like the Carnaval king???
I don't know.
Rogues?
He titled himself Prince of Fools, 'a title disputed by Valenti le Comte and JAcques Resneau: there follow pamphlets, a trial, arguments; his lawyer declares and certifies him to be "an empty head, a gutted gourd, lacking in common sense; a cane, a broken brain, that has neither spring nor whole wheel in his head."'