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RANDOM QUOTES and PICTURES!
Many of the quotes will be from Sluggy, and many won't be! I will try to put up new ones every day, or at least very often to keep things jumpin'! I hope you enjoy them and if you have some you'd like to see here email them in to us!

Queen Zenobia's Last Look upon Palmyra by Herbert Schmalz
I just found this new artist! I am really impressed with her work so far. What do you think?
   The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ~ T.S. Elliot


Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherised upon a table:
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question...
Oh, do not ask, ‘What is it?’
Let us go and make our visit.

In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.

BEFORE HE MAKES EACH ONE ~ R.M.Rilke

Before he makes each one
of us, God speaks.

Then, without speaking,
he takes each one
out of the darkness.

And these are the cloudy
words God speaks
before each of us begins:

"You have been sent out
by your senses. Go
to the farthest edge
of desire, and give me
clothing: burn like a great
fire so that the stretched-out
shadows of the things
of the world cover
me completely.
Let everything happen
to you: beauty and terror.
You must just go--
no feeling is the farthest
you can go. Don't let
yourself be separated
from me. The country
called life is close.
By its seriousness,
you will know it.
Give me your hand."

Read more Rilke!

Spanish Dancer ~ R.M.Rilke
As in one's hand a lighted match blinds you before
it comes aflame and sends out brilliant flickering
tongues to every side -- so, within the ring of the
spectators, her dance begins in hasty, heated rhythms
and spreads itself darting flames around.

And suddenly the dance is altogether flame!

With a fierce glance she sets her hair alight.
Unexpectedly she turns with daring artfulness
the swirling flounces of her dress within this
conflagaration, out of which her upheld naked arms,
clapping the castanets, appear like serpents striking.

And then, afraid her fire were diminishing,
she gathers it all up and flings it down
with an imperious haughtly gesture, and watches
as it lies there writhing on the ground, unyielding
and unwilling to concede the dance has ended.
Yet she show victory in her sweet swift smile
as she lifts up her face, while with her small firm feet
she stamps out the last of the dying embers.

See Frederic Leighton Paintings!

The Lament to Icarus by Herbert J. Draper
Beautiful work! Love the colors!


Annunciation by Michael Parkes
This artwork is after the announcement of the Incarnation to the Virgin Mary.


The Duino Elegies: The Seventh Elegy: "Never think destiny's more than the substrate of childhood: how often you'd catch up with a lover, panting, panting, from the happy chase, into the open forever."