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Painting
c. 1534 • Oil on Canvas
This is a painting from the Venetian High Renaissance, and one of the most famous reclining nudes in Western art. The goddess Venus is depicted in a luxurious domestic interior, reclining on a bed. Her body is relaxed and sensual, and she gazes directly at the viewer with a knowing and confident ...
Manuscript
earthsheartGenre: Speculative Fiction
Earth's Hidden Heart: A Verne & Burroughs Legacy Part 1: The Buried Legacy (The Unseen Seed) The year is 2075.
The world's population swells, energy demands skyrocket, and the last vestiges of fossil fuels dwindle.
A generation earlier, humanity, in a desperate bid to secure its future and dispose of its most dangerous byproducts, committed to deep geological repositories.
Within a labyrinth of engineered tunnels, far beneath the surface, lie the silent monuments of a past crisis: vast sarcop...
The world's population swells, energy demands skyrocket, and the last vestiges of fossil fuels dwindle.
A generation earlier, humanity, in a desperate bid to secure its future and dispose of its most dangerous byproducts, committed to deep geological repositories.
Within a labyrinth of engineered tunnels, far beneath the surface, lie the silent monuments of a past crisis: vast sarcop...
Poetry
Soeur Moniqueby Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell
A RONDEAU BY COUPERIN Quiet form of silent nun, What has given you to my inward eyes? What has marked you, unknown one, In the throngs of centuries That mine ears do listen through? This old master's melody That expresses you, This admired simplicity, Tender, with a serious wit, And two words, the name of it, 'Soeur Monique.' And if sad the music is, It is sad with mysteries Of a small immortal thing That the passing ages sing,-- Simple music making mirth Of the dying and the birth Of the peo...