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We can accept the idea of a deficient divinity, a divinity that would be forced to create the world out of poor materials and, thinking in this way, we would eventually arrive at Bernard Shaw, who said: God is in the making. That is to say, God is not something that belongs to the past and God is possibly not something that pertains to the present
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Any wings that end in hands cannot possibly be wings, hello!
Anyway, this entry needs more comments, where are those 100+ people who have you as a friend, I just came back to this to see if there was some good dialogue going on since you say some quite interesting things, but it's practically deserted! But I've got nothing to say either! I guess everyone must just know that you are right about everything, in silence.
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They reckon ill who leave me out;
When me they fly, I am the wings;
I am the doubter and the doubt,
And I the hymn the Brahmin sings
Terrible, right? There's the sense of no escape and being also a part of the thing that threatens you. The line could enslave you, if you pay enough attention. It's scary. Baudelaire writes something similar, more violent, in his poem, "L'Héautontimorouménos":
Je suis le soufflet et la joue
Anyway, did you ever stop to think about those white cartoon gloves? Both Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny wear them. I always wondered where they came from and why... I remember watching this video (when I was a kid) on how to draw comics, it featured Todd McFarlane, Jim Lee, and Rob Liefeld back when they still worked for Marvel Comics. Stan Lee was in it, too, but they did some routine where Stan introduced them very briefly and then promptly fell asleep (like a doting old man) on a sofa adjacent to the mock studio. Those three magnates then began teaching you the basics of how to draw. For this purpose, they improvised a character named Mr. Image, which was funny, because they would later break away from Marvel to form their own independent company, Image Comics; it was an inside joke, they were even snickering about it, and poor Stan must have been oblivious to it all! Anyway, they were putting the finishing touches on Mr. Image, and they left his bottom half in the hands of Rob Liefeld, who was notoriously bad at drawing feet. They joked about what a bother it was to draw feet and McFarlane eventually drew this huge log that would coincidentally obscure Mr. Image's legs from the shin down. Right. Now, when I think of Mickey's white gloves, I see it as the same kind of convenience, but the cheating is magical instead of laziness on the part of the artist. It's a beautiful solution, right? The idea that you could stick a sturdy hoof, a rudimentary claw--even something as flat as a fin--into this generic-looking white glove and have the animal become totally dexterous. It's an idea worthy of a five year old.
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I have that video. Or at least, I ordered it and had it at one point in time during my teenage years, when I aspired to be a comic book artist. I even purchased the fancy pen and india ink stuff, the kneaded rubber eraser, and whatever else it was the pros used.
I just now googled and found this link to a site that has the videos:
http://www.rabidferret.com/comicgreats/
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