The scanner ate the pencil. Is there some kind of trick to prevent that? (Lemme guess, buying a good scanner or something of the sort). It's a well-known fact (well-known in certain circles, as it were) that I happen to fangirl a man names Alcibiades. A nephew of Pericles and pupil of Socrates, he was a Greek general of some repute during the second half of the Peloponnesian War about 415 BC onward. He was also a turncoat of... about four times? Exceptionally beautiful and possessed of immense personal charm, he was considered by Oscar Wilde as "the first of the dandys". Seriously, how could I possibly not fall for him? Anway, no depiction of him survives to this day. There is a marble head who looks... not like the common description, another head from a much later time of Roman origin and a Spartan mosaic that doesn't exactly outdo itself in regards to details. Personally, I've decided he must have looked a lot like the Barbarini Faun (minus the horns and hooves. Probably.). I could talk about that guy for ages and I've been known to do so.
I happened to type 'Alcibiades' in the dA search box on a whim and well... it's good to know I'm not alone! Alcibiades definitely has his charm. Your portrait does him justice.
He wasn't a turn coat, he just knew when his services were better used else wher ... like places that weren't trying to kill him. *Shifty-eyes*
-- A Word to Husbands To keep your marriage brimming With love in the loving cup, Whenever youre wrong, admit it; Whenever youre right, shut up. ~Ogden Nash.
-- A Word to Husbands To keep your marriage brimming With love in the loving cup, Whenever youre wrong, admit it; Whenever youre right, shut up. ~Ogden Nash.
When did it suddenly become cool to hate everything? It's a growing problem, especially in the entertainment world, and no one benefits from an increasingly hard to please, pessimistic audience.
A Special Collection of photographs i found this month that still haunts my mind. Show them some love There are always some i can`t include due to space, i try to make the features under 50 deviations to give them better exposure
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--
A Word to Husbands
To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever youre wrong, admit it;
Whenever youre right, shut up.
~Ogden Nash.
--
A Word to Husbands
To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever youre wrong, admit it;
Whenever youre right, shut up.
~Ogden Nash.
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