Chinese Portrait
This is an artistic depiction which is abstract and imaginative, and intended to help one imagine. beyond the normal conventional understanding. A Chinese Portrait asks several questions to whch answers are given.
The questions are:
If I were a natural phenomenon, I would be.
If I were a metal, I would be.
If I were an animal, I would be.
If I were a color, I would be.
If I were a mythological being, I would be.
If I were a famous human being, I would be.
If I were a human activity, I would be.
If I were a work of art, I would be.
If I were a weapon, I would be.
If I were an object, I would be.

Shouit (SHOO-eet) is Egyptian for "shadow".

Polish

Japanese

Tolstoy & Turgenev
Madam Butterfly
Marshall McLuhan "Global Village" phrase in 1960s

Circumcision Abrahamic convent pg 85-90
"Galatians prove that true circumcision is of the heart "

Hawaii Kilquea (volcano) believed by locals to be the god Pele
the valcano being her privates.

Erazin Kohak "The Embers of the Stars"

Golden Section - Intersection of lines in a painting (from the time of Virtuvious [?] onwards... used as a guide to the proportions of figures in paintings.

Cesar's writers : Mann, Stendhal, Sabatini, Sumas, Conrad
Comedia Dell'arte figures signed by Bustelli - a Lucinda, Octavio & Scaramouche

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American Gods
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Czernobog - Brother to Bielbog

Odin's Wain (?):
Zorya Vechernyaya
Zorya Utrennyaya
Zorya Polunochnaya

Pg 46.
Leucotios
Hubur
Hershef

Mr. Nancy = Anansi
Lion god connected to Anansi ?

Kubera & Frau Holle
Ashtaroth
Mama-ji - from Kalighat

African (pg 256)
Elegba - trickster & messenger for the great Mawu

Damball - Wedo - Serpent god (258) Ogu
Shango
Zaka (262)

Wakinyau - Thunderbirds (275)

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Three Musketeers
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Polycrates Ring ? 318 - "pomposity of Don Juan in Scarron's play."
339 - Mirame; a tragedy in 5 acts

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Giuseppe Tomasi de Lampedusa
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Confucius & Mencius ?
painter - Chardin

Classics predating modern novel:
Morte de'Arthur
Roman de la Rose
Amadis de Gaula
Diana - Jorge de Montemayor
Burlesque Tales of Francois Rabelaise

Paul Theroux

Johan Auizinga's 3 criteria for true play (pg 208)
1. Represents freedom.
2. Stands outside of everyday life
3. Contains its own course and meaning

paintings of Monsu Desidero ("The Third Man"?)
watercolor by Rowley

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Waiting for the Weekend - Witold Rybczynski
pg 222-224 Compentency in hobby rather than work