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Saturday, October 4, 2025

one of the daftest bits of ancient mythology concerns the death of orpheus ... killed and dismembered by the MAENADS, some French 19thC painters show his head falling into a river, and some show it being retrieved by ??? i'm not sure who ??? ... GUSTAVE MOREAU painted a lady treasuring the head of Orpheus ... but why are there two tortoises in the bottom corner ?

OVID tell this story differently ... https://www.theoi.com/Text/OvidMetamorphoses11.html

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tristan: Tenby, Pembrokeshire, United Kingdom; you were only supposed to eat the cake, john ... not the flipping candles !

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