Sunday, September 14, 2008

Lorenzo Lotto Venus and Cupid painting

Lorenzo Lotto Venus and Cupid paintingLorenzo Lotto Mystic Marriage of St Catherine paintingWilliam Etty Hero and Leander painting
both at once. "Passèdèdity!" Leonid had declared; "she make men classmates in love!" "You're the blind one!" Greene had charged, "tell-a-floozy-from-a-Founderwise! This ain't even Stacey!" Thereupon the toasts had turned to plain invective, so heated that neither availed himself of Anastasia's offer or even noticed when she left the bar, "flung herself" (in Stoker's words) again at the Chancellor, and finding him tabled with Madge, declared she was "running off" to meet another lover in the Tower Hall Belfry.
"Don't think I don't know who," Stoker growled at me. "Not that I give a flunk!"
"He gives a flunk," Greene said, surprisingly, and Leonid agreed.
"The flunk I do!" Stoker cried. "Any more than you wise-guys, or you'd have talked her out of leaving!" Allthey'd been concerned with, he said bitterly, was that his wife be seen as a Commencèd martyr (in Leonid's case) or (in Greene's) as a flunkèd floozy with a passèd virgin twin; the debate between them on this head, fired by alcohol, had grown so hot that it flared at last into a duel: they would fight to the death, they vowed, and the winner's prize would be the loser's good eye. The Living-Room bartender put their agreement in , the disputants each grasped a bottle by the neck and broke off

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