A Day in the Life

Our16th century Renaissance women, heroines all, in a number of mise en scene- are actually Greek Goddesses, Sappho, Oenone, Dido, Briseis, et alia.
 

the bath, 

the peeping King...

the texts,

the  well meaning "friend"

the intrigue, 

the occasional Dragon,

the slips and falls from grace, 

the lament,
the mayhem,

the murder,  

& it starts all over again.

...all in the Day of a Life.

manuscripts: Français 874, fol. 170v. at the Bibliothèque nationale de France,  & Mandragore

Dorothy Parker's Language of Love

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Whose Love is given over-well

Will look on Helen's face in Hell;

While they whose love is thin and wise

May view John Knox in Paradise.

                                     Dorothy Parker- Life, 24 February 1927  

Nikolai Ivanovich Argunov, Cupid

"Graecum est; non legitur"

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sometimes- It is Greek to me,

Veruschka self portrait

but I like it.

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