Re: The Raven

In article <7emtji$mc...@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu>, jef...@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu
(Jeffrey Keith Boulier) wrote:
> 
> In article <Z4wP2.2$SV3...@skin01.micron.net>,
> Starshine <med...@micron.net> wrote:
> ><SNIP>
> >>
> >>THis Raven is brilliant. And the bust of Pallas is also really good
> >>except that I'm pretty sure that Pallas was male. Here is an alteration:
> >>
> ><SNIP>
> >
> >Um...sorry. I get things like that mixed up....<fidgets and looks
> >embarrased>
> >    -Sarah
> 
> There are many Pallases in Greek mythology, but I think that the one
> refered to in Poe's "Raven" is Pallas Athena, the goddess of wisdom. It's
> the sort of thing you'd have above your chamber door in rooms where you
> read books of forgotten lore.
> 
> 
>    "Nevermore"      >o
>                      (\
>                      ^ '
> 
> 
>                                 --Jeffrey Boulier

The bust in "the Raven" being Pallas Athena makes *much* more sense than
Pallas who was prematurely killed in The Aeneid. Thanks for
straightening me out.

Allow me to reinstate the breasts that I deleted on the Pallas Bust.
                     __
                  .-'  '-.
               _.'    _   '.
            .-'__'-. <_>    \
             `-==-./         '.
                   '-.        '.
                      )         \
                     /           \
                    |     ,       \
                    '    (         \
                     '    \         \
                     _\    \         \
                     \\\     \        \
                      \\'.     \      \\
                    .-'`.'\      \     \
                  .'   ____        '    .
                 /   .'     `-'-.    ' . .
                /   / __        _'.      :
               '   / .-.`      '.-. '.    \
               |  |   '   ,      '    \    \
               |  |      /           | |___|
               '--'      `-          '--'
                :  \      ---.       / :
                 :  '.    `         /  :
                 :    '-.______.-' (  :
                  '.    )           \.
                    :.-'             '--.
                   .'                    \
                  /                       \
                 '--._.'             `.    .
                      /      /        ('-.'
   __________________(      . .      )|
                      '._.-'   '._.-' |
                       )              |
                       `-.__________.-'Starshine



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