Monday, 6 October 2008

Thomas Moran The Morning After painting

Thomas Moran The Morning After paintingThomas Moran The Autumnal Woods Under the Trees paintingThomas Moran The Angry Sea painting
maimed as he is - no dignity, no power of will. No one is ever holy without suffering. It’s taken that form with him...I’ve seen so much suffering in the last few years; there’s so much coming for everybody soon. It’s the spring of love...’ and then in condescension to my paganism, she added: ‘He’s in a very beautiful place you know by the sea - white cloisters, a bell tower, rows of green vegetables, and a monk watering them when the sun is low.’
I laughed. ‘You knew I wouldn’t understand?’
‘You and Julia...’ she said. And then, as we moved on towards the house, ‘When you met me last night did you think, “Poor Cordelia, such an engaging child, grown up a plain and pious spinster, full of good works”? Did you think “thwarted”?’ It was no time for prevarication. ‘Yes,’ I said, ‘I did; I don’t now, so much.’ ‘It’s funny,’ she said, ‘that’s exactly the word I thought of for

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