1 dog of war let loose... awesomemfeltes83May 23 2004, 19:37:37 UTC
I rolled over and looked at the time - 5.44 a.m. I have relikes and pardon in my male. But I have trouble conceiving how, in a century where people take pride in fine sorts of knowledge, there are not to be found two closely united men - rich, one in money, the other in genius, both loving glory and aspiring for immortality - one of whom sacrifices twenty thousand crowns of his goods and the other ten years of his life for a famous voyage around the world, in order to study, not always rocks and plants, but, for once, men and mores, and who, after so many centuries used to measure and examine the house, would finally be of a mind to want to know its inhabitants. In every one of his paintings of this kind, the struggle between harmony and disharmony is dramatically fought, with harmony always the sure but precarious victor. How could it have been otherwise when our ways of knowing are such an important part of our ways of participating in the social world
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