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Thank you, Janine. That is very nice of you. Yes, if you come across something floral that would be lovely.
Quite some time ago, I had made an avatar by cropping this picture. You probably recognize it, she is Juliet as painted by my favorite artist, J.W. Waterhouse (in case anybody isn't familiar with the painting)
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h5...erhouse/22.jpg
I was thinking about going back to Juliet for a bit, but can never make my mind up. :D
The new sig is a fragment of a song by one of my favourite bands (James), the song is Top Of The World
Back to Old Faithful!
Recognize anybody? :) ;)
A little bit of Gertrude Stein for all of you.
Changed my Avy, want to celbrate autum even if we are technically about to enter spring already ( saw some bulbs sprouting yesterday and they looked to big to be snowdrops):D
Your Avy's lovely, Night :nod:. Now I'll always imagine you as some kind of fairy :D.
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The Sword in the stone, which, BTW, was NOT Excaliber, artists pictures notwithstanding. Arthur received Excalibur from The Lady of the Lake, and returned it to her after the final battle. :)
It's a gilbert
I changed my avatar --- it's a part of a painting of the lady of shalott.
Notice the spelling of shalott. It has two t's -- not one. I misspelled it when I set up my account originally.
Now, I am very embarrased about this, especially since this was my favorite poem from the time that I was a student and actually enrolled in literature classes. So you see, I should know how to spell Shalott. My username is Shalot instead of Shalott and that irritates me. Maybe I should set up a new account. I don't know.
Anyway, I've come up with an excuse for why I mispelled Shalott. It's because I'm from the U.S.A. Now, you can take that however you want, but it's a known fact that here in a America, we sometimes alter words and their spellings.
Take the word light for example. If you order a low-fat sandwich, the spelling on the menu might say lite. All that means is that the sandwich is low in fat and carbs and calories, and a clever way to convey that meaning is to reduce the number of letters in the word light. The word has fewer letters and the consumer is getting fewer calores.
In the same way, we add letters to a word. Take also the word old. If you own a bookstore, a clever name for the bookstore might be Ye Olde Bookstore. Olde looks like a word from Old English, and if you're buying a book from the Ye Olde Bookstore, as opposed The Old Bookstore, you think you're getting something special. But if you go shopping at the old bookstore, you're getting used books that smell like someone's old cigarettes.
So there you have it --- there's my new avatar and my new excuse.
Thanks so much.
That was awesome! I think I've finally met my match in the rationalization department. ;) :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Shalot
That is one of my favorite paintings. Ye Olde Artists certainly knew what they were up to...:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Shalot
I am actually not sure who the artist of my Avatar is....
I found it on my friends computer when I set up my account..
As for my sig.. That is my favorite poem from Dowson. I found it while reading my favorite play, Long Days Journey into Night...
I lucked on to this avatar when I was blindly typing stuff into a search engine ( I was very bored) But I love it! And I also like the idea that when you all read my posts you're imagining that I look like Cate Blanchet ;)