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Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Was recommended by a friend to read this book, The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason, after The Da Vinci Code craze. Took me awhile to dig into it as I find it a little erm... deep. Deep because the writers deliver it so poetically. There are ideas (mainly from the Renaissance) which are so beautifully put and looked at from very different angle.Here is one I like
This is an engraving by Augostino Carracci " Love Conquers All Things"
The young boy beating up the more masculine satyr on the left is Love. It explains this:
"Love is not supposed to be on your side. You fight with him; you try to undo what he does to others. But he's too powerful. No matter how much we suffer, our hardships cannot move him."
It potrays Love as a bully.. a very strong one in fact, and it makes me ponder.. Isn't that so? If we love a thing, nothing (almost) could move it.
What a brilliant way to depict Love!
The next one is this,
" The two hardest things to contemplate in life is age and failure, and those are one and same. Perfection is the natural consequence of enternity; wait long enough, everything will realize its potential. Coal becomes diamonds, sand becomes pearls, ape becomes men..."
In some sense, it is true.. forget about the ape and men. I don't believe in the ape evolution thingy but take it as a literature, as an artistic expression, poetically.. philosophically thinking. After all, this is a Renaissance work.
and the one I like most is:
"The strong take from the weak, but the smart takes from the strong"
posted by Charis at 1:31:00 am
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