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30 Paintings in 30 Days - Day 26

9/26/2017

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KNIGHT: There! Look!

LAUNCELOT: What does it say?
GALAHAD: What language is that?
ARTHUR: Brother Maynard, you're our scholar!
MAYNARD: It's Aramaic! GALAHAD: Of course! Joseph of Aramathea!
LAUNCELOT: Course!
KNIGHT: What does it say?
MAYNARD: It reads, 'Here may be found the last words of Joseph of Aramathea. He who is valiant and pure of spirit may find the Holy Grail in the Castle of uuggggggh'.
ARTHUR: What?
MAYNARD: '... the Castle of uuggggggh'.
BEDEMIR: What is that?
MAYNARD: He must have died while carving it.
LAUNCELOT: Oh, come on!
MAYNARD: Well, that's what it says.
ARTHUR: Look, if he was dying, he wouldn't bother to carve 'aaggggh'. He'd just say it!

     -from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Scene 34

It may be my sense of humor is odd, but I find this scene simply brilliant.  It tickles my funny bone in just the right spot.

But let's talk about this little piece of whimsy, which was inspired by a photo shared by a fellow artist.  Apparently there are some very interesting things you can do with photos on snapchat, and her granddaughter had done just that.  The ENORMOUS round glasses made me giggle, and so I had to put some on a girl.  And then named her after my own granddaughter, who may just wear glasses some day.

I have worn spectacles since I was seven years old.  And truly, I can hardly see without them.  Before cell phones, buying glasses each year was a complete crap shoot.  Because I would put on the frames, smash my nose against the mirror and still have no clue how I looked in them.  Now I can take a selfie, put my real glasses on and examine the photo before deciding.

Sometimes my exaggerated imagination wonders if I would have been cast out by my tribe if we lived in primitive times.  What a liability I would be!  Stumbling into trees, grabbing scorpions instead of shrimp, sleeping in poison ivy.  Oh, who am I kidding?  I would have walked off a cliff before I was old enough to be a burden! Ha!

Well, at least I live in modern times, where glasses are available, sometimes make people look scholarly, and generally prevent daily accidents from occurring.  Perhaps Arthur's scholar, Maynard, might have been a smarter dude with glasses?

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Dotty Seiter link
9/26/2017 07:54:25 am

I JUST came from responding to a comment of yours at my blog in which I thanked you for helping me look at my current circumstances through different lenses!!!!!!!!

And that is all I have to say : )

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jen
9/26/2017 08:52:58 am

Lenses! Synchronicity. Hugs!

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Carol Edan link
9/26/2017 10:05:44 am

Hi there Lydia! Where are you off to? I gather the local library! And I saw glasses in a previous lady the reminded me of snapchat. Two cataract operations and I am free of glasses... night driving I put on the glasses because of the glare. YAY! Always good to look through various lens.

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jen
9/26/2017 11:08:21 am

She just might be off to the library!!! Thank you so much for inspiring this one..it was BIG fun!!! And I am so happy to hear you are free of glasses. There is hope for us all! :)

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