Arts & Humanities - 8 November 2006

CINDERELLA

My step-sisters are willing
to cut off their toes for him.

What would I do for those days
when I played alone
in the hazel tree over my mother's grave?
I would go backwards if I could
and stay in that moment when the doves
fluttered down with the golden gown.

But everything has changed.
I trace his form in the ashes,
and then sweep it away before they see.

He's been on parade with that shoe.
All Prince, with heralds and entourage,
they come trumpeting through the village.

If he found me, would he recognise me,
my face, after mistaking their feet for mine?

I want to crawl away
into my pigeon house, my pear tree.
The world is too large, bright like a ballroom
and then suddenly dark.

Mother, no one prepared me for this –
for the soft heat of a man's neck when he dances
or the thickness of his arms.

Gwen Strauss

2006-11-08 21:19:14 · 2 answers · asked by rachitkhaitan 1 in Books & Authors

And why...........what was it about.........?

2006-11-08 21:09:50 · 12 answers · asked by Malc S 1 in Books & Authors

we have pay/hour from 1c to $10,000,000 - this means the latter person can go out and buy $10,000,000 worth of goods every hour - he does one hour's work and we pay him with $10,000,000 worth of goods - that is peak pay - his average is only $500,000 per hour, every hour of his work - money is power, so we are handing him $10,000,000 worth of political power every hour - in return for one hours' work - all he does in that hour is work with what god gave him, doing what he decided to do - exactly what everyone does - no different at all - he puts in one hour of himself and we give him about a million hours of the fruits of our labour - another person does exactly the same: works for an hour with what god gave him - and we give him one cent - no one can slack - you get fired - unless you are the boss - what exactly are we doing? - what exactly are we doing? - what are we doing? - what are we doing? - are we actually DOING this? - or is it just happening and we are not doing anything?

2006-11-08 21:09:19 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Arts & Humanities

2006-11-08 21:09:17 · 14 answers · asked by gul 1 in Philosophy

i know its having very complexly arrange things...............
but im an art student and have to draw an interpretative artpiece on that theme?any suggestions?

2006-11-08 21:05:37 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Visual Arts

2006-11-08 21:02:08 · 39 answers · asked by Roninja 2 in Philosophy

2006-11-08 21:01:17 · 8 answers · asked by lemonflo 1 in Photography

2006-11-08 20:58:40 · 6 answers · asked by duingidy 1 in Performing Arts

I love her books but I don't know any site where I can find her books.It would be super if you could help me.Thanks a lot!

2006-11-08 20:58:06 · 1 answers · asked by black_cat 6 in Books & Authors

with this poem (look at first and last lines specifly) Is Millay trying to opposite the above saying- Does she mean to say, "It is not better to have loved and loss than to have ever loved at all?" Is she saying that she rather die than give love up her love for someone? please read...


Sonnet 30
Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
And rise and sink and rise and sink again;
Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,
Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
Yet many a man is making friends with death
Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
It well may be that in a difficult hour,
Pinned down by pain and moaning for release,
Or nagged by want past resolution’s power,
I might be driven to sell your love for peace,
Or trade the memory of this night for food.
It well may be. But I do not think I would.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

2006-11-08 20:30:42 · 6 answers · asked by ruthvon11 2 in Philosophy

I am planning to buy a LOMO camera but dunno which takes the best and fun shot...help!

2006-11-08 20:25:03 · 2 answers · asked by neeenooongneeenoooong 1 in Photography

Should i go with the sick look or rich look or maybe both?

my character's age is about 40 years old and she is going to die soon. i want to make my character to be seen as weak.

2006-11-08 20:22:39 · 8 answers · asked by Cheah S 1 in Performing Arts

Successful. It is said that the beetles were rejected by Decca and the Monopoly game was initially written off by Parker Brothers. What other myopic rejections have gone on to achieve spectacular success?.......

2006-11-08 20:19:57 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in History

2006-11-08 20:12:37 · 1 answers · asked by phantom 2 in Other - Arts & Humanities

What is the theme of this story?
The phsycology of it?

Mr.R becomes gaurdian of the 16yr old Emma. Emma falls in love with him,but (as he is an apathetic man) sees her as just a little girl& that her affection is just transient. He marries Emma's older friend,ANN, for money,and leaves to another country. He returns 3 yrs later,and by then,Emma has grown up into a refined lady. Mr.R falls truly in love with her,but he's married to Ann still. Ann is hurt that Mr.R should never have loved her,but is now fallin in love with her BFF Emma. Mr.R wants to be with Emma,but Emma says he's already chosen his fate as Ann's husband. Mr.R (somehow, for some reason) wounds Ann...he leaves before he sees her die,'cause he hears someone coming.Emma comes,but leavs Anne (why?) There is a man in the forest, and he sees Emma leaving Ann,and thinks Emma killed Ann.He takes Ann to his house and tends to her,but before she dies,she says that Emma kills him--the perfect revenge.Emma is hanged for crime

2006-11-08 20:12:09 · 5 answers · asked by J.Welkin 1 in Books & Authors

2006-11-08 20:08:03 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Arts & Humanities

2006-11-08 19:56:25 · 18 answers · asked by Roka 2 in Philosophy

Someone can have it so good and yet they still want it to be better. What is everyones problem?

2006-11-08 19:44:26 · 14 answers · asked by Casey 2 in Philosophy

Sonnet 30
Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
And rise and sink and rise and sink again;
Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,
Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
Yet many a man is making friends with death
Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
It well may be that in a difficult hour,
Pinned down by pain and moaning for release,
Or nagged by want past resolution’s power,
I might be driven to sell your love for peace,
Or trade the memory of this night for food.
It well may be. But I do not think I would.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

2006-11-08 19:41:43 · 6 answers · asked by evonna213 2 in Books & Authors

I just finished Atlas Shrugged and was blown away. But I often get blown away reading philosophy, as if I'll believe anything. So can anyone take the wind out of my sails and tell me why Ayn Rand is full of it?

2006-11-08 19:30:44 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Philosophy

Previously I asked about non-explicit sex authors. Thanks for recommending Patricia Cornwell. I have read some of hers and like them. Haven't tried Diana Gabaldon as yet? Anyone read Susan Wiggs? Thanks for all your help!
Deanna

2006-11-08 19:26:37 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Books & Authors

2006-11-08 19:20:48 · 20 answers · asked by marcguks 1 in Philosophy

He had a carriage that suggested confidence and power. His eyes were deep set over prominent high cheekbones and a jutting aggressive square jaw...

2006-11-08 19:12:27 · 22 answers · asked by violeo 5 in Books & Authors

2006-11-08 19:06:36 · 5 answers · asked by alienated 1 in Books & Authors

2006-11-08 18:45:34 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Books & Authors

Has anyone read Silver Kiss by Annete Curtis Klause and Blood and chocolate? If you have can you give me your opinion if its great or dissapointment because i don't know whether to buy it or not. I don't want to know what happen cuz i already know whats its about i just need feedback on how good it is.

2006-11-08 18:39:07 · 2 answers · asked by OkieOk 3 in Books & Authors

We all think we have it, but we can't quite put our finger on what it is or how it works. Is it an emergent property of a complex brain? Is dualism the solution? Is it beyond our ability to understand because we are trying to understand that with which we do the understanding?

2006-11-08 18:33:22 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Philosophy

2006-11-08 18:32:44 · 15 answers · asked by princess ana j 3 in Philosophy

2006-11-08 18:30:10 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Drawing & Illustration

i have to stick small bits of paper and make a picture.i have 2 draw the picture first and then start pasting.no specific topic.pls suggest somethin easy2 draw.

2006-11-08 18:23:10 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Drawing & Illustration