And I envy you for this art-history-professor of yours! I wish I had had an equally enthusiastic professor! And this experience with the mosaics in candlelight must have been breathtaking. Now I understand why you like them so much! - I once could see a Baroque church in candlelight and it was really beautiful. It's so much closer to how these buildings probably were seen by contemporary visitors.
I won't say much to your Barbie comment because I and my sister had not only three but probably thirty, all sitting in accordant decorated houses. A lot of these things were antiques (furniture from much older doll's houses) or made by us out of wood together with our father who is really talented with these things. We even sewed a lot of the costumes ourselves, historic ones with crinolines etc. And then we (my sister and I) used to sit in this room and tell us stories inspired by Prince Valiant, Robin Hood, or even the Musketeers. Ahem.
And for the French Structuralist theory you have my utmost respect. That's where I normally give up. If scientific literature is not written in a way that I can understand it I give it maximal three tries before I skip it. Unless it is unavoidable, of course, but than it is accompanied by a lot of grumbling...
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Date: 2007-10-11 07:17 am (UTC)And I envy you for this art-history-professor of yours! I wish I had had an equally enthusiastic professor! And this experience with the mosaics in candlelight must have been breathtaking. Now I understand why you like them so much! - I once could see a Baroque church in candlelight and it was really beautiful. It's so much closer to how these buildings probably were seen by contemporary visitors.
I won't say much to your Barbie comment because I and my sister had not only three but probably thirty, all sitting in accordant decorated houses. A lot of these things were antiques (furniture from much older doll's houses) or made by us out of wood together with our father who is really talented with these things. We even sewed a lot of the costumes ourselves, historic ones with crinolines etc. And then we (my sister and I) used to sit in this room and tell us stories inspired by Prince Valiant, Robin Hood, or even the Musketeers. Ahem.
And for the French Structuralist theory you have my utmost respect. That's where I normally give up. If scientific literature is not written in a way that I can understand it I give it maximal three tries before I skip it. Unless it is unavoidable, of course, but than it is accompanied by a lot of grumbling...