Two Miles High (Page 27)

Two Miles High

From Russia with Love

Witches Ride

In The Master and Margarita, the heroine and her maid Natasha become witches. And why not? By and large Russian painters have not tackled witches very often, although Russian folklore produced one of the most fearsome of them all, Baba Yaga. The most famous painting of her is by Ivan

Alice's Mirrors

Witches

The most interesting aspect of witches is that they like to have sex with the Devil, according to most experts, and the best paintings and woodcuts of these orgiastic witches are by the Renaissance Germans. There was none better than Hans Baldung Grien, whose Three Witches and Witch and Dragon,

Never Talk to Strangers

From Russia with Love

Never Talk to Strangers

The strangely dressed older man with the Muslim skullcap was a foreigner for sure. The younger man just looked worried. Perhaps they had money. Who knows these days? Especially since they were speaking in Russian. The waiter helped the two men seat themselves in the hotel restaurant then hovered. "

'Woman Bitten by a Snake'

Vampires in Venice

'Woman Bitten by a Snake'

Some families are snake-bitten – they feud constantly. That was certainly the case with George Sand, her son Maurice and daughter Solange, and her soon-to-be-ex-lover Chopin, and it sucked in visiting friends like Delacroix. The most notable crisis was in May of 1847 when Solange married Auguste Clésinger, a sculptor and

'Women in Trousers' - Timeline

Women in Trousers

'Women in Trousers' - Timeline

* 855 Joan becomes Pope and dies three years later. Maybe. * 1021 Approximate date by which The Tale of Genji was written by Murasaki Shikibu * 1321 Dante finishes Divine Comedy * 1348 The Black Death. Boccaccio's Decameron is written 1349-1352 * 1361 Boccaccio begins writing On Famous Women, which includes Pope

'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' banned?

'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' banned?

L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz used to be one of the Great American Novels, right up there with Huckleberry Finn and Moby Dick. Not among the literati, of course, but among nearly everybody else. Indeed, it was clear-eyed librarians in the Twenties and Thirties, Fifties and

'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' book cover

'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' book cover

Notice the red Chinese lion entwined around the word OZ. This appears to be an imperial guardian lion known as shishi. Such stone lions can be seen in many places around China and they generally come in pairs, representing yin and yang. The male lion's paw sits on

Dreaming of the Virgin Mary

Zodiac Man

Zodiac Man reflected the classical and medieval view that the human body corresponded to the Heavens and its primary impact was on medicine. Doctors had to study both the patient and the position of the stars and planets in order to determine whether to operate. Bloodletting, for example: if the

Dreaming of the Virgin Mary

Zodiac

Below is a list of how the Zodiac icons have been placed in this Virgin Mary chapter. * Aries: Theodora * Taurus: the Word, Logos * Gemini: Hermes * Cancer: Gateway to the Earth * Leo: God's light * Virgo: the Virgin Mary * Libra: Marriage of Theodora and Justinian * Scorpio: the phoenix of Resurrection

Why is a Raven like a Writing Desk?

Alice's Mirrors

Why is a Raven like a Writing Desk?

Alice's Mirrors

Feed Your Head

Are you a Flat Thinker or a Linear Thinker? Is this a world of incurious technophiles who can't read a book or a newspaper article, let alone pick their way through this website? Is this website way too hard to read anyway? Yes I think it has to