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24 June 2005 queen of wishful thinking
has anyone noticed i flatter myself these days? in my past entries (this, this and this), i've "featured" my old drawings not just for the heck of it, but they were suitable for posting. why not show [off] a little bit of talent? it isn't as if i claim to be this generation's michelangelo buonarroti, although there's no harm in wishing -- perhaps the vatican could build another sistine chapel and request the honour of my company -- it has been decades since the world has had a taste of true masterpieces... Tanto nomini nullum par elogium. (No praise is sufficient for so great a man.) -- michelangelo's monument inscription. what would my own inscription be -- Eternalii Overconfidentii. (eternally over-confident.)?? ah heck. LONDON (AFP) - Three paintings by a chimpanzee named Congo were sold at auction in London to an American buyer for a total of 14,400 pounds (26,250 dollars, 21,610 euros), many times the estimated price. Congo's works went under the hammer in a sale that included works by French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French cubist Fernand Leger and US pop artist Andy Warhol. wow, i never realised i'd wake up one day envying a chimp called congo. so much for that. maybe congo and i could team up in an extravagant, never-been-done-before exhibit of the century. yeah right... fat chance, congo. congratulations, anyway, you lucky mojo jojo. Who, or why, or what Is the Akond of SWAT? Is he tall or short, or dark or fair? Does he sit on a stool or sofa or chair, or SQUAT, The Akond of Swat? ... Does he study the wants of his own dominion? Or doesn't he care for public opinion a JOT, The Akond of Swat? ... Does he wear a white tie when he dines with friends, And tie it neat in a bow with ends, or a KNOT, The Akond of Swat? ... Some one, or nobody, knows I wot Who or which or why or what Is the Akond of Swat! -- Edward Lear
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