Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Vincent van Gogh Couple in the Park,Arles

Vincent van Gogh Couple in the Park,ArlesLeonardo da Vinci Portrait of Ginevra de BenciLeonardo da Vinci Portrait Of A Young LadyLeonardo da Vinci LedaLeonardo da Vinci Leda 1530
really couldn’t say, Master,’ said the Bursar, getting his breath back. ‘Alchemy has never interested me. It’s altogether too . . . too . . . ‘
‘Dangerous,’ said the Archchancellor firmly. ‘Lot of damn mixin’ things up and saying, hey, what’ll happen if we ‘Right.’ The door closed.
The Bursar stared at it, and sighed.
Unseen University had had many different kinds of Archchancellor over the years. Big ones, small ones, cunning ones, slightly insane ones, extremely insane ones - they’d add a drop of the yellow stuff, and then goin’ around without yer eyebrows for a fortnight.’ ‘I was going to say impractical,’ said the Bursar. ‘Trying to do things the hard way when we have perfectly simple everyday magic available.’ ‘I thought they were trying to cure the philosopher’s stones, or somethin’,’ said the Archchancellor. ‘Lot of damn nonsense, if you ask me. Anyway, I’m off.’ As the Archchancellor began to sidle out of the room the Bursar hastily waved a handful of papers at him. ‘Before you go, Archchancellor,’ he said desperately, ‘I wonder if you would just care to sign a few-’ ‘Not now, man,’ snapped the Archchancellor. ‘Got to see a man about a horse, what?’ ‘What?’

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