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nicrap said…
...looks like a beetle to me? Have you undergone a metamorphosis, jen? ;)
Jen said…
Well, I have been "climbing the walls" lately....


Ha!
nicrap said…
Well, beware of apples. ;)
Jen said…
Ouch. I felt so sad for him.

You see a beetle?
:-)

You DO have imagination!
nicrap said…
Sure. How else did i come up with my handle!? ;)
Jen said…
I think you deserve a new handle.

Buona notte! ;-)
nicrap said…
Deserve, heh. That's a nice way of putting it. :)

Nyt nyt.
Always On Watch said…
Would make a great picture-prompt for creative writing!
nicrap said…
In fact, i can think of three distinct openings:

1. Jen had a beetle;
2. Jen became a beetle;
3. Jen killed a beetle and then stuffed it.

;)
Jen said…
Good morning, AOW! Feel free to use it with your students.

It's actually a man's face in profile. :-)
Jen said…
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
nicrap said…
It's actually a man's face in profile.

Now you indeed killed the beetle for me. ;)
Jen said…
I never did see it!
Thersites said…
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.

Fly, fly, fly! ;)

Thersites said…
...and by Trygaeus, I am speaking to nicrap. ;)
Thersites said…
...and by Trygaeus, I am speaking to nicrap. ;)
Thersites said…
Now you indeed killed the beetle for me.

I suppose that once you begin the process of making certain "paranoiac" associations, it's hard to "untie" them. :P
Thersites said…
...okay... maybe it is easy. The beetle is gone and the "face" has completely replaced it... because the face "fits" the pattern MUCH better.

Interesting.
nicrap said…
Trygaeus ... now how about that for a handle? ;)

I never did see it!

No imagination! :p
nicrap said…
Yes, it's easy. :)
Thersites said…
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".
Jen said…
Probably, fj.

I hate it when I see faces that won't go away. (That sounds totally creepy, but you know what I mean!)
Jen said…
Someone needs to tell me how to see the beetle....
nicrap said…
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nicrap said…
@Jen

Just focus on the lighted part.

@fj

Let's not fall into a determinism. Instead, there is always the Fall and the Redemption. ;)
Jen said…
:-)

Thanks for trying!
Jen said…
P.s. it's good advice for me, in general.
Good timing, nicrap.
nicrap said…
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.

a lesson now forgotten. :)
nicrap said…
He is risen [read: he can see the face, the beetle is dead]! Hellalujah! ;)
Thersites said…
Acephale! Duchamp, "The Green Box" (license to live). Badges, we don't need no stinkin' BADGES!

Long live all Starfish in a world of Spiders (being)!

Nomads, arise! Your time draws near. :P

nicrap said…
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nicrap said…
I hear ya, monsignor Quixote, famous knight-err[e]nt. ;)
Thersites said…
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nicrap said…
@fj

Why "forum" and not "fourbum"?
Thersites said…
What does "fourbum" mean? Could it be a 'misprint'

Whereas a forum imperator would be like the Carnaval king???

I don't know.
Thersites said…
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...
nicrap said…
What does "fourbum" mean?

Rogues?
nicrap said…
...though carnival king would also lend to the Cynical themes present in Rameau's Nephew.
nicrap said…
Re Angoulevent:

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."'
Thersites said…
It could very well be "rogue". My French/Latin is not all that. A fourberie is a trickster...
nicrap said…
...Yes, i guess it is "rogues". :)

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