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Hnefatafl. Or. And.

"LA GIOCONDA
Leonardo Da Vinci
The Louvre

Historic, side-long, implicating eyes;
A smile of velvet's lustre on the cheek;
Calm lips the smile leads upward; hand that lies
Glowing and soft, the patience in its rest
Of cruelty that waits and doth not seek
For prey; a dusky forehead and a breast
Where twilight touches ripeness amorously:
Behind her, crystal rocks, a sea and skies
Of evanescent blue on cloud and creek;
Landscape that shines suppressive of its zest
For those vicissitudes by which men die."

—Michael Field in Aesthetes and Decadents of the 1890's (1981)

"Been trying to figure out what it reminds me of and it's 'Main Street USA' at Disneyland."

"After this, and despite a long series of anti-Irish and anti-Catholic sniping, they ['the Michaels'] converted to Catholicism, going so far in their zeal as to become Dominican tertiaries (lay sisters), though with a special dispensation that allowed them to continue attending the theatre." —David Wheatley via

Glasgow.