Of all the books I’ve been able to taste the profoundest book I’ve digested is The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O’Neill. Succinctly: how to live without illusion.
Sept 5. 2013.
The renowned Danish neo-classicist sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen [1770 – 1844] (above) has a museum dedicated to his art in Copenhagen, Denmark. I’ve taken some pictures of his most representative works exhibited there. Enjoy!
Gutenberg (plaster model)
Maximilian I (plaster model)
Pius VII (plaster model)
Schiller (plaster model)
Copernicus (plaster model)
Jozef Poniatowski (Plaster Model)
Byron (Plaster model)
Ganymede and Zeus as Eagle
Cupid
Adonis
The Graces
Frederick VI of Denmark
Shepherd Boy
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Maria Feodorovna
Mercury
Vulcan
Goddess of Hope
Mars and Cupid
Hebe
Venus with Apple
Cupid and the Graces
Cupid and Psyche
Ganymede
Cupid
Young girl dancing
Psyche
I see a wall and it is a blink
between two explosions
I contain
the thick blankness of thought
as my only faith;
ergo I cry
and become
shriveled like
the dry pain that
floats like a memory;
I see silence
like a color
like a flame
like a muscle
that bends the stars,
I don’t care
being absorbed
like a wave of frequency,
I must be nothing
glancing at the faint
enormity of life.
From the phantom tables
and vanished walls
a cloud of light
and thunder of shadow
the foundation is lost .
I still glimpse an inkling of
cold geometry and
wooden truth;
but the glue of substance
drips like echoes of brevity. . .
I witness
and no longer
participate.
Most of the time
I cannot write
of what I see
or think
I feel but I do not seek
subjectively I am indeterminism
within a fatalistic mechanism of the soul
I observe, even participate
in the sacrificed logic
shedding
pale metaphysical tears
because the longer I live
so much more has gathered
about the edge
as more days go by
I begin to recognize
the happy truth
that I was
barely
here at all
(a true story)
contemporary poetry
Impressive, monumental, Pergamonmuseum or Pergamon Museum, in Berlin has one of the finest colossal “debris” from the ancient civilizations of Greece, Assyria, Babylonia, and the Mesopotamian cultures.
Here’s a photographic visit to this famous museum.
Pergamon or Pergamum Altar:
Miletus Market Gate
Babylonian Ishtar Gate and Hallway
Assyrian Gate Keeper and Wall Relief
The Return of the Gods (mostly Greek Mythology with the exception of Habad the Weather God)
