Second Time Shame On Me
This morning's essay question: We're all condemned by cosmic law to make the same mistake over and over until we learn the lesson and stop doing it, you know, like constantly being attracted to a type of person wrong for us, or running up huge debts buying unnecessary stuff, or letting deadlines slide. Once we finally get it, and learn the lesson, then we move on to a new mistake and keep repeating that until another lesson is learned. This goes on throughout our lives, one lesson after another. In the Tarot the 21 cards of the Major Arcana describe, in fact, the fool's journey to enlightenment, one lesson at a time. So what happens when someone else is making a recurring mistake, and drags everyone else down with him? What's the lesson for us?
You get extra points if you recognize the print on the wall.
posted by John M Crowther @ 12:05 AM
10 Comments:
"Plus Ça Change, Plus C'est La Même Chose!"
Even when I blowup the image it's difficult to guess the painting on the wall. I do see what appears to be a river on the left side which makes me think it might be Seurat's "Sunday by the River." On the other hand, it sure looks as if I there's a one-eyed bull or minatour with horns above the man's head so the painting is either mythological or a frame from Disney's Ferdinand-the-Bull.
Give up!
You were on the right track there at the end, prof. Not Seurat, but definitely allegorical. American, earlier in the century.
Sorry, John, like il professore can only see sqiggles when trying to enlarge it. Does appear to have something with horns above Charles' head. Surprised that the wife has not sent the horns through his head, says she laughing. No fair if we can not see it. Fess up now, what is it.
Great cartoon, by the way (grinning)
Oh come on John...I got my eyes checked but haven't picked up the new glasses yet! LOL
The lesson? How to eliminate crazy makers from our lives? When you figure out how to do this please come back and enlighten the rest of us ok? *wink* LOL
Hmmm thinking...could be Homer and is he fly-fishing?
Not Homer. There are horns above Charles's head though, the question is, the horns of what? And that is a body of water to the left. The title of the painting is an ironic comment on the litle drama being played out in th cartoon.
How 'bout Picasso's Minotaur Moving?
Nope. [grin] It's early 19th century American.
Steamboat round the bend? roger
That painting sure looks a lot like Veronese's 1570 "The Rape of Europa" with Zeus transformed into a bull. Very similiar composition. Water on the left, bull in the center.
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