Banal Platitudes

In silent night when rest I took/ For sorrow near I did not look...

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Gustav Klimt, Study for the Figure of “Lasciviousness” (Beethoven Frieze), 1901

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Edgar Degas (1834–1917), The Orchestra at the Opera (c 1870),

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Describe your perfect date in detail.

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ideal date: it happens

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What is my perfect date? I break into Tiffany’s at midnight. Do I go for the vault? No, I go for the chandelier. It’s priceless. As I’m taking it down, a woman catches me. She tells me to stop. It’s her father’s business. She’s Tiffany. I say no. We make love all night. In the morning the cops come and I escape in one of their uniforms. I tell her to meet me in Mexico but I go to Canada. I don’t trust her. Besides, I like the cold. Thirty years later, I get a postcard. I have a son and he’s the chief of police. This is where the story gets interesting: I tell Tiffany to meet me in Paris, by the Trocadero. She’s been waiting for me all these years; she’s never taken another lover. I don’t care, I don’t show up. I go to Berlin. That’s where I stashed the chandelier.

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May Just One Word Book Photo Challenge

Day 23: Illustrated

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Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar cover by Milton Glaser

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An African American woman poses with her baby in Chicago, 1919.

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Pablo Picasso - Reading Jacqueline

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St. Elizabeth of Hungary, 1916, Alice Macallan Swan

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“Figure in the Moonlight”

Author: John Atkinson Grimshaw (English, 1836-1893)

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Punch-Drunk Love (2002) dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

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Unknown Artist (Continental School, 19th Century)

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Elin Danielson-Gambogi (Finnish, 1861 - 1919): Self-Portrait (via Wikimedia Commons)

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Henry Ossawa Tanner, The Good Shepherd, 1902-03

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Jan Thorn Prikker, The Bride, 1893

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So many detailed Celtic Crosses dot our cemetery. This massive beauty catches your attention from quite a ways away.

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Roj Friberg (Swedish, b. 1934), Skogskanten [Forest Edge], 1992. Mixed media on paper laid on panel, 88 x 110 cm.

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Walter Richard Sickert Minnie Cunningham at the Old Bedford 1892