Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Francois Boucher Are They Thinking About the Grap

Francois Boucher Are They Thinking About the GrapFrancois Boucher An Autumn PastoralFrancois Boucher Adoration of the ShepherdsGustave Courbet The Origin of the WorldThomas Kinkade Symbols of Freedom
my crown he's wearing! Look, this is it! And he's saying I did all those—' He paused for a minute, to listen to the latest couplet, and added, 'All right. Maybe I did that. So I set fire to a few cottages. But everyone does that. It's good for the building industry, anyway.'
He put the ghostly crown back on his head.
'Why's he . They were as soft as water, but they were also as powerful as water and now they were rushing over the audience, eroding the levees of veracity, and carrying away the past.
That's us down there, she thought. Everyone knows who we really are, but the things down there aresaying all this about me?' he pleaded.'It's art,' said Nanny. 'It wossname, holds a mirror up to life.'Granny turned slowly in her seat to look at the audience. They were staring at the performance, their faces rapt. The words washed over them in the breathless air. This was real. This was more real even than reality. This was history. It might not be true, but that had nothing to do with it.Granny had never had much time for words. They were so insubstantial. Now she wished that she had found the time. Words were indeed insubstantial

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