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The Sphinx...Oscar Wilde & Alastair...1920
Your lovers are not dead, I know;
They will rise up, and hear your voice,
And clash their cymbals, and rejoice,
And run to kiss your mouth, -- and so
Set wings upon your argosies!
more on the background of this book and other illustrators > THE SPHINX
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Works of Art...Moche pottery...Peru...100-800 AD
The incredible detail in Moche ceramics could lend to the fact that they served as a sort of didactic model. Older generations could pass down general knowledge about reciprocity and incorporation to younger generations through these veristic portrayals. These sex pots could teach about procreation, sexual pleasure, cultural and social norms, a sort of immortality, and transfer of life and souls, transformation, and the relationship between the two cyclical views of nature and life.
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