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Mark Welles's avatar

Great place to put away an old year! Thank you!

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Erica Weick's avatar

How did you like the finer tooth combs to brush away the parasites? ^--^

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Tom Cheetham's avatar

this is amazing stuff... OWLS. Yes. and those archangels are just amazing.... everyone should see those!

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Erica Weick's avatar

Yes, and the repetition of faces, garbs and colors in those angels! quite amazing indeed!

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Elizabeth Beggins's avatar

"...and nothing much is about the increase in profits in the makings of weaponry, or in the investments we all make in support of the gears of war…"

I had what I think is a similar conversation tonight about how our systems [pharmaceutical, insurance, food] are focused on reducing illness, not on promoting health. Those archangels are so beautiful one hardly notices their weapons.

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Erica Weick's avatar

Yes, indeed. I learned that the paintings were most likely commissioned by the local aristocracy and I would imagine were portraits of them, dressed in their usual festive garbs! The weapons were contemporary...

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Marco André Schwarzstein's avatar

I loved everything in this semilinearprose dear Erika! And this reminded me of the owl sitting on my left shoulder, or was it on the top of my head?, piercing through my blindness. Happy Owls for you next year, to be able to pierce through the dust of battles!

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Erica Weick's avatar

Thanks, Marco! I like the piercing through the dust (and fog) of battles! Happy 2014!

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