Posted on 12/29/2018 11:22:03 AM PST by Kaslin
Let’s see,
The fair and lovely Mrs. Trump or the angry, America hating wookie bitch.
Not too rough a choice.
Mary; the wife of Joseph the carpenter; gave birth to Jesus.
What inflated theories ROME has invented about her is not honorable.
I actually HAD one of these prints about 30 years ago.
I don’t know what ever happened to it.
Sounds like millions of homes had that print. But today, it may be a collector’s prize.
That’s what Iwas thinkin g!
Jeff is a great guy, and he has made an excellent choice.
Lessen her contrast 10% and put a very faint white mist over her.
Good suggestion, Elsie. I’m not familiar with the “white mist” term. I suppose there are a few ways to do that in GIMP. But I copied Melania and colorized that layer with zero saturation, made the overlay 90% transparent and added some brightness.
I reposted the new image. Many thanks.
| There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. On week-ends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city, between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants including an extra gardener toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before. Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York--every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves. There was a machine in the kitchen which could extract the juice of two hundred oranges in half an hour, if a little button was pressed two hundred times by a butler's thumb. At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby's enormous garden. On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors-d'oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold. In the main hall a bar with a real brass rail was set up, and stocked with gins and liquors and with cordials so long forgotten that most of his female guests were too young to know one from another. |
By seven o'clock the orchestra has arrived--no thin five-piece affair but a whole pitful of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos and low and high drums. The last swimmers have come in from the beach now and are dressing upstairs; the cars from New York are parked five deep in the drive, and already the halls and salons and verandas are gaudy with primary colors and hair shorn in strange new ways and shawls beyond the dreams of Castile. The bar is in full swing and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside until the air is alive with chatter and laughter and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other's names. The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun and now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music and the opera of voices pitches a key higher. Laughter is easier, minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word. The groups change more swiftly, swell with new arrivals, dissolve and form in the same breath--already there are wanderers, confident girls who weave here and there among the stouter and more stable, become for a sharp, joyous moment the center of a group and then excited with triumph glide on through the sea-change of faces and voices and color under the constantly changing light. Suddenly one of these gypsies in trembling opal, seizes a cocktail out of the air, dumps it down for courage and moving her hands like Frisco dances out alone on the canvas platform. A momentary hush; the orchestra leader varies his rhythm obligingly for her and there is a burst of chatter as the erroneous news goes around that she is Gilda Gray's understudy from the "Follies." The party has begun. |
From where?
I did a lot of searching.
Did you see the movie with Leonardo?
Hey Elsie,
I found the Melania image on Google Images, Large size with the keywords “Melania sitting”.
https://www.google.com/search?q=melania+sitting&tbm=isch&source=lnt&tbs=isz:l&sa=X
I did see the Robert Redford edition of Great Gatsby but not the Leonardo one.
And you’re right about the strange word “prodigality”. It’s used to describe “laughter spilling out” and maybe Fitzgerald meant that Gatsby’s excessive spending on the lavish party lubricated everyone’s mood and encouraged greater laughter. I’ve felt that way at those rare occasions when the host event pulled out all stops.
Comparing Melania and Micelle is like comparing Secretariat and aClydesdale.
Comparing Melania and Micelle is like comparing Secretariat and aClydesdale.
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