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in response to today's wwftd, I received the following: Many years ago, a wonderful professor at N.Y.U. pointed out to me that if one envisions the sculpture of Apollo wrestling the serpents without the serpents being present, then it looks as if he is yawning and stretching.aside from the fact that the statuedoesn't depict Apollo, isn't this a bit of a reach?!
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Bit of a stretch, if you ask me.
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Bit of a stretch, if you ask me.
And a real yawner, too.
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And a real yawner, too At first sight, I would tend to agree, but then, wrestling with serpents that are not there, is more frequent than one might think .
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wrestling with serpents that are not there, is more frequent than one might think .
And quite tiring, one would expect.
Last edited by Faldage; 10/26/06 09:47 AM.
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It obviously shows the model got bored and tired.
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Well at least he was working to scale.
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Well at least he was working to scale.
Nit: Modellers work to scale, models work for scale.
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Nit taken. I kept looking at that trying to figure out what was wrong; figured someone would steer me right. Thanks.
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