Re: [WO] Violence to violins

Quote from: nullius on October 30, 2020, 03:03:37 AM

Quote from: Last of the V8s on October 28, 2020, 02:23:25 PM

I just had to stop by and comment on this. It echoes something that I wrote for WO a few weeks ago, but didn’t post; it is symbolic, on so very many levels...

Following is the unpublished post, file mtime 2020-10-10, which was brought to mind by the burning violin image. I was and am reluctant to publish this, for I have cast too many pearls already; and “you’d probably scroll on by like the unmitigated savages you all are.” (LOL.)

European culture in 1808: Pauline Borghese (née Bonaparte; Napoleon’s sister) poses as Venus with an apple.

Fun fact: Pauline had an affair with Paganini.

European culture was vibrant. —With vibrato.

THIS SPACE IS INTENTIONALLY LEFT NULL.

Modern, democratic ~~European culture~~ Eurovision (like “Satoshi’s Vision”?) in 2014:

Protip for the unmitigated savages: Most, albeit not all of the images that I post in the Wall Observer and elsewhere are intentionally hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons. Among other benefits, this provides an implicit lead on where to find more information about an image.

That which can be learned, must be earned. Anyone who is possessed of more curiosity than the most abject dullard, and who is not a mental defective, can easily figure out how to turn the image URLs into URLs for the the pertinent Wikimedia File: pages. Those, in turn, provide proper identification—and oftentimes, direct links to the relevant Wikipedia pages in multiple languages. In particular, if^* you love a painting or statue that I embed from Wikimedia Commons, then there is never any need for reverse image search drudgery: Hit the quote button, look at the URL, and hop over to the wacky wiki which, albeit a Communist propaganda cesspool, does have more information identifying these artworks, their histories, and the (mostly long-dead) great artists who created them.

(* “Focus on the IF.”)

A refined gourmet feast should be served with an appropriate sauce. However, those who are not sufficiently motivated to pursue life’s finer things just do not deserve them. Hiding the sauce in the URL is too low a low-pass filter, but it hereby suffices for most purposes. If you smell the tantalizing repast, but you just scroll on past, then no sauce for you!