Kings and philosophers shit, and so do ladies
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| - | As [[Montaigne]] reminds us at the end of the century, '[[Et les Roys et les philosophes fientent, et les dames aussi]] ... how were scatology and scatological | + | "[[Et les Roys et les philosophes fientent, et les dames aussi]]" is a phrase from [[Montaigne's Essays]][http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Essais/Livre_III/13]. |
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| - | [[Montaigne and Etienne de La Boétie]] | + | |
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| - | "[[Happy are you, reader, if you do not belong to this sex to which all good is forbidden]]" | + | |
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| - | [[Herbert Read]]'s ''[[The Meaning of Art]]'' see prev. post. | + | |
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| - | :[[yareta]] plants possesses strangeness in beauty. | + | |
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| - | In January 2008 I posted an entry on "ugly plants.[http://jahsonic.wordpress.com/2008/01/22/ugly-plants/]" | + | |
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| - | Today, I buy [[Herbert Read]]'s ''[[The Meaning of Art]]''[http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/pelican-books/183-1.jpg] (1968) and I find the quote [[There is no excellent beauty, that hath not some strangeness in the proportion]] by [[Francis Bacon]]. | + | |
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| - | It comes from Bacon's very short aesthetics essay ''[[Of Beauty]]''[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Essays_%28Francis_Bacon%29/Of_Beauty]. | + | |
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| - | [[Poe]] was fond of quoting it and [[Baudelaire]] made it his own via Poe in the [[motto]] "[[le beau est toujours bizarre]]". | + | |
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| - | [[RIP Corneille]], 88, [[Dutch artist]]. | + | |
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| - | ''[[Au sein du désert, il y a encore de la place pour les jeux]]'' (1949), [[Galerie Moderne]], was his [[most expensive artwork]]. | + | |
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| - | "[[Self-portrait in the Studio]]" at the [[Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando]] in [[Madrid]]. | + | |
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| - | [[Hvítserkur]] [[natural wonder]] | + | |
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| - | [[History of the maja vestida and the maja desnuda (Spanish language text from Wikipedia)]] | + | |
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"Et les Roys et les philosophes fientent, et les dames aussi" is a phrase from Montaigne's Essays[1].
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