When you flip the photo, I can REALLY see Paul....from 1968.
Plastic surgeons are limited as to what they dare do to the eye position.
Shall I call one of my best friend's doctors, Dr. Hartley? One of America's LEADING plastic surgeons......
GEOMETRY. SKULL. OVALS. CIRCLES. PROPORTION.
Troll: "All that is MEANINGLESS, perplexed. Trigonometry. Cranium. Semi-circles. Dots. Relativity. See, I can write word lists, too!!!!!!"
So, let's phone heaven and see if we can get Da Vinci to assist with moderating this forum. I wouldn't be leery of that, would anyone else? I doubt Paul Bearer or TI or Sun King would be offended by Leo's intervention. If he wasn't an authority on human form, and faces and heads and all that, WHO CAN WE TRUST?
So, I dialed heaven on the holy hot-line, 1-777-777-7777, and St. Peter's receptionist put me thru to Da Vinci's extension, we spoke briefly.........
"...........But, none of that matters, Leonardo. Thats what they tell me in America in 2004..........yes, that's right.....uh-huh.......yes, in fact, nowadays most people belive that your bones in your head are free to float around and change their size and relative proportion all yor life......what's that, that isn't what you discovered from studying the human form for your whole life?.........really?.............you say you NEVER met a person whose head left its mature, adult shape----oh you say very old people lost some bone and size but otherwise heads were consistent for a few decades after their 21st birthday? Really?...................well, I assure you that has all changed in this century. You see, we found several famous people whose heads changed a lot after their mid twenties...............we don't know why, must be new DNA...............what's DNA?(my eyes dart rapidly back and froth into the heavens, brows knit together),well, we all have it in our tiny parts, and its like the sand of the sea. Quite small, and the instructions for one's body is written upon it................oh, you already figured that out? How!!!
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..........from rendering still lifes?! really? Fascinating.............read your what?.......oh, your notebooks.....where will I find them........Amazon.com? How do you know about Amazon.com?...........you got an email from the Pope? Are you guys still in touch?.........Really?.......oh it's LONG distance, I get it.............so they DO have the internet in hell...................is that why there are so many flamers on this web-site?............................hey, Lee, baby. are you still taking portraits on commision? Can I make an appointment?"
Before hanging up, "Leo", my new pal, also recommended a more contemporary book on his life and writings, called, quaintly, "Leonardo Da Vinci":, by Kenneth Clark and Martin Kemp.
My, my, the old boy really makes an effort to keep up!!!!
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