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I'm working on a poem that starts with the line
"I never believed in starfish"
which is just about the fact that I didn't know the realness of them until I saw them in the ocean where they actually thrive. I'd even petted them in aquariums, but it just didn't register.



I may have to have a line in it about heiroglyphs.

Today I got to go to the Museum of Fine Art in Boston, and the antiquities were so much fun.

I stared at the side of a sarcophagus, just realizing that those hieroglyphs were the way they were writing. Real information, written.

They're just so funky. It seemed incredible. Not that I disbelieved it, it just wasn't real to me.
Now it is. And I also can see what they mean when they mention a "cartouche"

Like they do in this awesome book:

Date: 2010-03-11 02:13 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] hysteresismonky.livejournal.com
"Today I got to go to the Museum of Fine Art in Boston"

Wait, what? You're here? Hi. Welcome.

Date: 2010-03-11 02:58 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] idiosyncreant.livejournal.com
Erm, yeah!

Since I have family here I drop in and out of the state every once in a while. Usually without time to do more than exhaust their patience with me....

Date: 2010-03-11 05:18 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] emerald-happy.livejournal.com
I've been meaning to buy that book since forever and keep forgetting. Thanks for the reminder!

Date: 2010-03-12 06:56 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] rhinemouse.livejournal.com
I was just thinking the other day about how much I LOVE THAT BOOK. And now my copy is boxed up in California. :-(

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