Shāntián Tàiláng
Joined 18 December 2018
Hello, folks.
Two quotes which would be perfect here
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- "Debating creationists on the topic of evolution is rather like trying to play chess with a pigeon — it knocks the pieces over, craps on the board, and flies back to its flock to claim victory." --Scott D. Weitzenhoffer
(Notice: I've included the entire poem below, since I really don't know which verse(s) "pairs" well with that image to properly show the poet's deep anger towards that painting and other Gauguin works.)
- "Gauguin,
you piss me
off.
You strip me bare
assed, turn me on my side
shove a fan in my hand
smearing fingers on thigh
pout my lips below an
almond eye and silhouette me
in smouldering ochre.
I move
just a little
in this putrid breeze
hair heavy to
fuscous knees, still
I’m the pulse
on the arm of this wall
and I’ve drawn her to me again.
Here she comes.
Not liking that she likes me
not liking you, but knowing that she
likes me, not liking you
liking me, but she
likes me and sees me,
but not you,
because you
Gauguin,
piss us
off."
-- "Two Nudes on a Tahitian Beach, 1894", from Selina Tusitala Marsh (2009). Fast Talking. Auckland University Press.
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