urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:purple_peter BOO Peter 2007-03-05T19:55:55Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:purple_peter:873 2007-03-05T19:55:55Z 2007-03-05T19:55:55Z Besides the obvious, these two paintings have something in common. I don't think anyone will get it, it isn't that obvious, and you might have to dig.<br /><br /><a href="http://i15.tinypic.com/2qimjo2.jpg">David with the Head of Goliath Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain</a> and <a href="http://www.phespirit.info/pictures/caravaggio/images/p086.jpg">Salome with the Head of St. John the Baptist The National Gallery, London, UK</a> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:purple_peter:383 2005-09-29T21:32:16Z 2005-09-29T21:32:16Z MY mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun <br />Coral is far more red than her lips’ red: <br />If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; <br />If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. <br />I have seen roses damask’d, red and white, <br />But no such roses see I in her cheeks; <br />And in some perfumes is there more delight <br />Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. <br />I love to hear her speak, yet well I know <br />That music hath a far more pleasing sound: <br />I grant I never saw a goddess go,— <br />My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground: <br /> And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare <br /> As any she belied with false compare.