> If that doesn't work out there is still the Publius Enigma and the art of   
   having sex between the two sides of yourself.   
      
   "If one goes right back to the early days of Greek civilisation, to the   
   Mycenaean world which held sway from the middle of the second millennium till   
   about 1100 BC, long before the age of Homer, it becomes clear that very   
   important influences originated    
   from the cross-fertilisation of East and West. The paintings of Mycenae attest   
   to the exchange of the mythology of dread, which had characterised Egyptian   
   culture and art, for one of lightness and mirth. The severely hierarchical   
   relationships that    
   characterised Egyptian art give way to the portrayal of relaxed, equal   
   relationships, not just of man with man, but of men with women, something   
   observed for the very first time in Mycenaean art in Crete. 112 Surely these,   
   it seems to me, represent the    
   most positive aspects of the left hemisphere, in its guise as Lucifer, the   
   bringer of light?   
      
   "Here the left hemisphere appears to be in harmony with the workings of the   
   right, which are abundantly evidenced in the fascination with the living   
   animal world in all its particularity, and a lively imagination.   
      
   "‘Plants and animals were painted everywhere on walls and vases’, writes   
   Braudel: here a spike of grass, there a bunch of crocuses or irises, a spray   
   of lilies against the ochre background of a vase, or the Pompeian red of a   
   wall-painting; reeds    
   arranged in a continuous almost abstract design, a branch of flowering olive,   
   an octopus with tangled arms, dolphins and starfish, a blue flying fish, a   
   circle of huge dragon flies … Frescoes and pottery all lent themselves to   
   this inventive fantasy.    
   It is remarkable to find the same plant or marine motifs handled in a thousand   
   different ways on so many vases turned out by the potter's wheel and exported   
   by the hundred – as if the artists wanted to relive the pleasure of creation   
   every time." 113   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)