The best bit is the Unicorn
The latest stressy work-thing is done, and I should be zooming with energy but I'm not - apologies for my slow, feeble or non-existent replies to people's posts lately.
also, due to sudden computer dysfunction, I've lost some links I was saving up.The only thing left is a picture I came across: The Garden of Eden by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472ish-1553)
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Hhmmm... that's come out very fuzzy. This might be better for checking detail - but in the meantime, what I wanted to note was that while it's packed with excitement and incident - there's Lions! Bears!and a Fox! the Mysterious Child in the background, in colloquy with God (Do you think it's the Infant Adam? I always imagined he began full-grown?) and the whole story from Genesis, strewn across the landscape - while there's all that happening, what I liked the most was that Cranach had included...
a Unicorn! There - behind the handsome horses, with long and oddly curving horn. :)
I was and am very happy that it's there!
But that, alas, is all that is left of the saved-up links I had.
Still, not to worry - new things keep turning up! In the category of Things I Didn't Know: I only discovered yesterday that jackfruit seeds are edible! They need boiling, it seems (I haven't done it yet) but after boiling and peeling become a plain-but-worthy mealy carbohydrate, like lentils. I will test-drive this, and report. :)
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also, due to sudden computer dysfunction, I've lost some links I was saving up.The only thing left is a picture I came across: The Garden of Eden by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472ish-1553)
-
Hhmmm... that's come out very fuzzy. This might be better for checking detail - but in the meantime, what I wanted to note was that while it's packed with excitement and incident - there's Lions! Bears!and a Fox! the Mysterious Child in the background, in colloquy with God (Do you think it's the Infant Adam? I always imagined he began full-grown?) and the whole story from Genesis, strewn across the landscape - while there's all that happening, what I liked the most was that Cranach had included...
a Unicorn! There - behind the handsome horses, with long and oddly curving horn. :)
I was and am very happy that it's there!
But that, alas, is all that is left of the saved-up links I had.
Still, not to worry - new things keep turning up! In the category of Things I Didn't Know: I only discovered yesterday that jackfruit seeds are edible! They need boiling, it seems (I haven't done it yet) but after boiling and peeling become a plain-but-worthy mealy carbohydrate, like lentils. I will test-drive this, and report. :)
This entry was originally posted at http://heliopausa.dreamwidth.org/46654.html. Please comment here or there.