RANT#17: Spent the month of August finishing the Folly dome mural. You can also find it on YouTube at VAVINIVILLA. It's shamelessly copied from a ceiling fresco of the planetary gods by Veronese (Paolo Caliari) in the 16th century Palliadian Villa at Maser Italy. The 2" tiles along the bottom edge are four quatrains from Edward Fitzgerald's 5th (1887) translation of the Rubiayat of Omar Khayyam:
Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And e'en with Paradise devise the Snake: For the the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blackened - Man's forgiveness give - and take! Why, if the Soul can fling the Dust aside, And naked on the Air of Heaven ride, Were't not a Shame - were't not a Shame for him In this clay carcass crippled to abide. And this I know: whether the one Ture Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath - consume me quite, One Flash of It within the Tavern caught Better than in the Temple lost outright. And that inverted Bowl we call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Life not your hands to It for help - for It As impotently moves as you or I.
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