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Essay, Translations, Prose, Poetry and ArtThe Force of Statistics--Taken from "Literary Lapses" by Stephen Leacock ivThe Flowers by Robert Louis Stevenson viThe Lanawn Shee by Francis Ledwidge viiARTFUNERAL Symphony 1-7 by Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis, vii-xiiiPART ONEMID-TONES 1"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to." ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the RingsCLASSIC ART and CONTEMPORARY LYRICDickens' Dream by Robert William Buss Turn the Page by Mari 3ESSAY AND SPANISH POETRY TRANSLATIONSThe Apostle: Cuba's Immortal José Martí by Stephen Zelnick 5MISCELLANYArt and inhouse Drabble 23,24MICRO and CLASSIC ARTBisection Class By Sam Hartburn 24ART Transverse Line, by Wassily KandinskyHead of the Family by Bill West 26ART, Father Frost and the step-daughter, by Ivan BilibinWhistle like a Clanger by Bill West 28Caricature of James McNeill Whistler by Aubrey BeardsleyPART TWOEvery Preposterous Thing 31"Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying, ' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it r half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast ..." Lewis CarrollESSAYPainted Pictures by Marie Fitzpatrick 32... there are only three primary colours but they change depending on theirCVgiven work space. BUT THEN THERE'S regular workspace AND there' s Burton workspace.ART, Swans on Boderg, Mari Fitzpatrick, Acrylic on Card, 32FLASH FICTION AND CLASSIC ARTRitual, The Secret Marriage by Susan Tepper 36ART, Portrait of a Lady, unfinished by Gustav KlimtThe Wedding Party by Henri RousseauESSAY Dwindling: the Shrinking Citizen by Stephen Zelnick 40John Milton never attended a political convention, but Paradise Lost depicts satanic demagogy and citizens dwindled to mere onlookers, overwhelmed by giant voices. In the great hall of Pandemonium, PART THREE, BREAKDOWNS 55There's an awed aura/after you pass me nude/on the way to our business/of the hour. Tom SheehanPOETRY AND CLASSIC ART 56Editorial by Oonah Joslin 56ART The King's Wife by Paul Gauguin 60The Poor Man at his Gate by James Graham 61ART Wood with Beech Trees by Piet Mondrian 62Summer by James GrahamART, Fee- Fi- Fo-Fum I Smell the Blood of an Englishman by Arthur Rackham, 64Alien by James Graham 65Transformation, River to Oxbow Lake by Ceinwein E C Haydon 67ARTSpider by Theodor Severin KItlesten 70It Frays by Caroline Hardaker 71Let me Count 13 Ways on How I love you by John C Mannone 73ART, The Gardner, by Giuseppe ArcimboldoI Used to Be Immortal by Irena Pasvinter 77Scones and Jam by Dolores Duggan79ART, The Butterfly Hunter by Charles SpitzwegART, Descent of the Holy Ghost upon the Faithful by Jean Fouquet 78Being Present by Anne Donnellan 79ART: Cleopatra, preparatory study for 'Cleopatra Testing Poisons on the Condemned Prisoners by Alexandre Cabanel 90Bird Breveament Alisa Velaj 81ART: Patcher breaks sign (Barin at the house of patcher) by Boris Kustodiev 82The March of Time byLesley Timms 83Peasant Woman Watching the Geese by Camille Pissarro 84The Geese Fly North by Nick Bowman 85ART: The Wolves Descending from the Alps by William Hamilton 86Mother Moon by Ann Thornfield-Long 87ART: The Goulue and Valentin, The Boneless One by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 88Murmurration by Matthew Paust 89Moon Dance, Trees Coming Green, April, Tom Sheehan 90Evening - The End of the Day (after Millet) by Vincent van Gogh 92A Balmy Day by James G Piatt 93
