The former post was off topic and was thus removed as it was a violation of our
Great Books & Classics spirit. We are migrating to
registration-only forums at href=http://jollyrogerwest.com>jollyrogerwest.com Great Books forums,
Philosophy Forums,
and booksliterature.com Great Books forums.

Please respect that these are Great Books sites, and we prefer posts along the following
lines:

The neutron warhead is a defensive weapon designed to offset the great
superiority that the Soviet Union has on the western front against the
NATO nations.
Ronald Reagan


Art is a way of expression that has to be understood by everyone,
everywhere.
Rufino Tamayo, artist

LXXIX



Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid,

My verse alone had all thy gentle grace;

But now my gracious numbers are decay\'d,

And my sick Muse doth give an other place.

I grant, sweet love, thy lovely argument

Deserves the travail of a worthier pen;

Yet what of thee thy poet doth invent

He robs thee of, and pays it thee again.

He lends thee virtue, and he stole that word

From thy behaviour; beauty doth he give,

And found it in thy cheek: he can afford

No praise to thee, but what in thee doth live. 

  Then thank him not for that which he doth say,

  Since what he owes thee, thou thyself dost pay.

 	--William Shakespeare

Colour is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
Claude Monet