Could this be you?
Friday, May 29, 2015
12 comments:
IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THE FOLLOWING, YOU DON'T BELONG HERE, SO KINDLY GET OUT AND STAY OUT.
We welcome Conversation
But without Vituperation.
If your aim is Vilification ––
Other forms of Denigration ––
Unfounded Accusation --
Determined Obfuscation ––
Alienation with Self-Justification ––
We WILL use COMMENT ERADICATION.
IN ADDITION
Gratuitous Displays of Extraneous Knowledge Offered Not To Shed Light Or Enhance the Discussion, But For The Primary Purpose Of Giving An Impression Of Superiority are obnoxiously SELF-AGGRANDIZING, and therefore, Subject to Removal at the Discretion of the Censor-in-Residence.
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
A little fatalistic there lately, FreeThinke.
ReplyDeleteJMJ
Or more contemporary
ReplyDeleteEternal immutable Truth cannot be dated.
DeleteHow the modern tendency to "nosh" endlessly on tons of out-and-out crap at every available opportunity relates to "Vanity" I cannot imagine. If any anything, other than pointing to the huge success "Bernaysian" advertising techniques have enjoyed in pandering to human weakness, it indicates a tremendous lack of proper self-esteem –– a desirable quality that should never be confused with morbid egocentrism.
The vanitas school covers several themes of funerary art.
DeleteThe one I posted is a very witty parody of the greatest Dutch vanitas still life painter, Willem Hedda.
I sensed both "Still Life" and "Old Master," Ducky, but what all that has to do with Vanity I still don't understand. Why is it called "The Vanitas School of Funerary Art?"
DeleteWho contrives these names and categories to help us define, remember –– and presumably understand –– Art better?
I doubt very much if our friend Willem Hedda thought of himself as a practitioner of "Funerary Art of the Vanitas School," any more than J.S. Bach regarded himself as "The Culmination of the Baroque Period" in Music, so how do these curious academic designations come about?
Might make an interesting study all by itself.
Jersey,
ReplyDeleteWhat's fatalistic about it? That is a timeless picture, and it expresses the eternal truth that all beauty, and indeed all mortal life is fleeting.
Ducky, I don't get it.
FT's got the vibe lately. Heck... What am I saying? He always does! LOL!
DeleteJMJ
You got de Vibes
DeleteI got de Vibes
All God's chillun's gots de Vibes
When we gets to Hebben
We can jibe wiff de Vibes
Den we can dance
All over God's Hebben!
§;-D=
Thus spake Qoheleth.
ReplyDeleteToshan Tarra Diddler said
DeleteGratuitous Displays of Extraneous Knowledge Offered Not To Shed Light Or Enhance the Discussion, But For The Primary Purpose Of Giving An Impression Of Superiority are not welcome.
Famous tombstone epitaph:
ReplyDeleteConsider, friend, as you pass by: As you are now, so once was I. As I am now, you too shall be. Prepare, therefore, to follow me.
— Scottish tombstone
__________ The Minor Poet __________
DeleteHis little trills and chirpings were his best.
No music like the nightingale's was born
Within his throat; but he, too, laid his breast
Upon a thorn.
~ Dorothy Parker - from "Tombstones in the Starlight"