...you look at paintings and all you see is the fantastic detail of the seams of that doublet and completely fail to notice the severed head.
I had a folder of paintings from Rogier van der Weyden with me at our A&S gathering last night. One of our members had her 5 year old daughter with her, who was a bit bored so we passed her some folders to "look at the pretty pictures", failing to think about the fact that most of them were allegorical. Fortunately she has the attention span of a goldfish so any slight distress at the graphic violence displayed in the pictures was replaced by the next shiny thing on her radar.
So the evenings serious discussions about various types of gown construction were punctuated by the following:
"'scuse me"
"Yes Amber"
"Why is that man's head cut off"
"Because he was a bad man sweetie, how about you look at some other pictures"
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"'scuse me"
"Yes Amber"
"What are they doing to that man?"
"They're taking Jesus off the cross sweetie"
"Is he dead?"
"Yes he's dead dear."
"Why has he got holes in him"
"Because they nailed him to the cross"
"That's not very nice"
"No it isn't very nice"
"That would hurt"
"It probably did"
"I like that ladies dress"
"Yes its very pretty."
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*cackles a bit*
Is that Karra's Amber? sounds like her.
Yep, that's Karra's Amber. The same one how had the following conversation with Aelfred:
"Is that leather?"
"Yes, this is leather"
"Does it come from a cow?"
"Yes, it comes from a cow"
"Is the cow dead before they take the skin off?"
"Yes, I'm pretty sure the cow is dead before they skin it."
"That's good."
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