Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Caravaggio Judith Beheading Holofernes

Caravaggio Judith Beheading HolofernesCaravaggio Amor Vincit OmniaPierre-Auguste Cot Le PrintempsGeorge Frederick Watts Charity
The whole edifice was humming softly under the enormous pent­up pressure.
The Librarian locked his hands together and cracked his knuckles, which is impressive when you have as many knuckles as an orang-utan.
He raised his hands.
He hesitated.
He lowered and flow down his arms and fill his fingers.
His hands dropped.
'What did we do? What did we do?' said Imp. Excitement ran its barefoot his hands again and pulled out the Vox Humana, the Vox Dei and the Vox Diabolica.The moan of the organ took on a more urgent tone.He raised his hands.He hesitated.He lowered his hands and pulled out all the rest of the stops, including the twelve knobs with '?' on them and the two with faded labels warning in several languages that they were on no account to be touched, .ever, in any circumstances.He raised his hands.He raised his feet also, positioning them over some of the more perilous pedals.He shut his eyes.He sat for a moment in contemplative silence, a test pilot ready to slit the edge of the envelope in the starship Melody.He let the plangent memory of the music fill his head

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