Monthly Archives: July 2011

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An Irving Klaw Photo

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Off The Page 7

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The Lickerish Quartet

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Winchester-Thurston ’56

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Sally Parks Behrhorst

Fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way

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Antithesis 2

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All the beings of our world are, in the eyes of the Gnostics, the sediment of a lost heaven. — Jacques Lacarriere

Reddish marble carved votive relief of Selene: a female bust to the front in an arched niche, draped in a sleeved chiton, and with her hair parted in the middle and brought down over her ears, nose now missing, surrounded … Continue reading

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Gnostic Serpent

Oval red-orange chalcedony intaglio: snake with Gnostic inscriptions above and below. (undated) British Museum If a person has eyes that know how to see, he will look upwards to the heavens and he will see the beautiful image of the … Continue reading

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sewickley academy 1983

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From “The Annals”

But neither human help, nor imperial munificence, nor all the modes of placating Heaven, could stifle scandal or dispel the belief that the fire had taken place by order. Therefore to scotch the rumor, Nero substituted as culprits, and punished … Continue reading

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