Travel's satisfaction emerges between monuments and tourist sites. A first entry recounting episodes and exploits. This one includes Kelpies and boobs.
Callipygous? You definitely went to the well for that one (and me to the dictionary)! I want more pictures (said your simplest of readers and—oh god, I hope—not the sharpest-tongued of your readers.)
Just goes to show that there is a word for EVERYTHING! But, yes, I did have to dive deeply to fish that one out of the well. It hung around for decades in the Venus Callipyge. (I admit I had to figure out the adjectival form with a web search.) This was the first time I ever used the word, actually, so there's that. First time for everything.
And, no, you are not the "sharpest-tongued" reader, Tom. Remember that readers at this stage should crack the whip when they feel like it. I'm on the receiving end and feel the sting, but the wincing I do just focuses attention.
A quote I ran into you may like: “"A happy owner of natural talent easily forgets that it takes unlimited work to bring God's gift to life.
Every aspiring artist should remember that there is no time limit for achieving perfection. There is nothing perfect in human life. there is only the pursuit of perfection. In my opinion, to achieve something really valuable in art, one human life is not enough. A serious master constantly feels like a student, the more he acquires knowledge, the more demands he makes on himself.
And this is happiness for him, making him always young. An artist dies when he loses self-criticism, when everything he has done begins to satisfy him." - Nicolai Ivanovich Fechin
Well I loved it and now have to find a way to put that word to use myself! Well done. As for the writing—well, it’s just bloody hard, isn’t it Mark? I’m sure if we’re ever completely satisfied with something we’ve written, we will be mistaken or deluded.
Callipygous? You definitely went to the well for that one (and me to the dictionary)! I want more pictures (said your simplest of readers and—oh god, I hope—not the sharpest-tongued of your readers.)
Just goes to show that there is a word for EVERYTHING! But, yes, I did have to dive deeply to fish that one out of the well. It hung around for decades in the Venus Callipyge. (I admit I had to figure out the adjectival form with a web search.) This was the first time I ever used the word, actually, so there's that. First time for everything.
And, no, you are not the "sharpest-tongued" reader, Tom. Remember that readers at this stage should crack the whip when they feel like it. I'm on the receiving end and feel the sting, but the wincing I do just focuses attention.
A quote I ran into you may like: “"A happy owner of natural talent easily forgets that it takes unlimited work to bring God's gift to life.
Every aspiring artist should remember that there is no time limit for achieving perfection. There is nothing perfect in human life. there is only the pursuit of perfection. In my opinion, to achieve something really valuable in art, one human life is not enough. A serious master constantly feels like a student, the more he acquires knowledge, the more demands he makes on himself.
And this is happiness for him, making him always young. An artist dies when he loses self-criticism, when everything he has done begins to satisfy him." - Nicolai Ivanovich Fechin
Fits well with the life of a writer. And it also speaks to the focus of that chapter you read for me!
This guy is a real favorite of my wife's -- his portraits are fantastic and she aspires to his level of talent.
Well I loved it and now have to find a way to put that word to use myself! Well done. As for the writing—well, it’s just bloody hard, isn’t it Mark? I’m sure if we’re ever completely satisfied with something we’ve written, we will be mistaken or deluded.