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To: Vaquero

Now, future generations can become depressed looking at this "masterpiece".


10 posted on 08/31/2006 9:33:33 AM PDT by dinoparty
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To: dinoparty

Existentialism isn't for everybody. I like it, tho.


13 posted on 08/31/2006 9:35:34 AM PDT by gcruse (http://gcruse.typepad.com)
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To: dinoparty

> Now, future generations can become depressed looking at this "masterpiece".

"I was walking along a path with two friends – the sun was setting – suddenly the sky turned blood red – I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence – there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city – my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety – and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature." - Edvard Munch

In a sense, Munch weren't far wrong. The sky *was* that color, and nature *was* in an uproar... because the island volcano of Krakatau had blown itself to flinders not long before and filled the stratosphere with ash, dust and sulphur compounds. The sky looked spooky weird at the time.


28 posted on 08/31/2006 9:43:52 AM PDT by orionblamblam (I'm interested in science and preventing its corruption, so here I am.)
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