From today's New York Times:
From the Associated Press,
filed at 4:34 PM ET July 27, 2005:
"Held once described his work this way: 'Historically, the priests and wise men believed that it was the artist's job to make images of heaven and hell believable, even though nobody had experienced these places.'
'Today,' he went on, 'scientists talk about vast worlds and universes that the senses cannot experience. The purpose of the nonobjective artist is to create these images.'"
"Most modern men do not believe in hell because they have not been there."
— Review of Malcolm Lowry's novel Under the Volcano (1947)
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By Their Fruits
Today's (July 22) birthdays:
Don Henley and Willem Dafoe
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"And the fruit is rotten;
the serpent's eyes shine
as he wraps around the vine
in the Garden of Allah."