Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Marc Chagall Adam and Eve

Marc Chagall Adam and EveMarc Chagall La MarieePaul Gauguin Yellow Christ
holding them off when he could easily have escaped. King Iorek, I am wretched with remorse."
"Where did this happen?" said Iorek Byrnison.
"In another world. This will take me some time to tell."
"Then begin."
She told him what Lee Scoresby had set out to do: to find the man who had been known as Stanislaus Grumman. She told him about how the barrier between the worlds had been breached by Lord Asriel, and about some of the consequences; the melting of the ice, for example. She told of the witch Ruta Skadi's flight after the angels, and she tried to describe those flying beings to the bear-king as Ruta had described them to her: the light that shone on them, the crystalline clarity of their appearance, the richness of their wisdom.
Then she described what she had found when she answered Lee's call.
"I put a spell on his , and then said, "I shall go to Lee Scoresby. And then I must go south."
"South?"
"The ice has gone from these lands. I have been thinking about this, Serafina Pekkalabody to preserve it from corruption," she told him. "It will last until you see him, if you wish to do that. But I am troubled by this, King Iorek. Troubled by everything, but mostly by this.""Where is the child?""I left her with my sisters, because I had to answer Lee's call.""In that same world?""Yes, the same.""How can I get there from here?"She explained. Iorek Byrnison listened expressionlessly

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