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Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday: rediscovering tumblr [1]
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Date: 2025-02-21
I nearly forgot I had a tumblr account, which led me to a 19th Century French painting about recumbent royalty.
During the last week of cold weather, in my place the warmest location is my bed, and fortunately I am not debilitated but do seem to need more bedrest as I age.
This time spent being in bed a lot is a danger sign as Bruce Jay Friedman described in The Lonely Guy’s book of Life where you begin to do all your daily activities like meals there. BTW Jackie Kennedy Onassis was also defined as a “lonely guy” by Friedman.
Doctor Girlfriend in The Venture Brothers cartoon series also resembles Jackie O.
Dr. Mrs. The Monarch (real name: Sheila, born 1969 or 1970) is the secondary antagonist and tetartagonist of The Venture Bros. She was the partner of her supervillain husband, The Monarch, and is now his boss since joining the Council of 13.
The Sons of Clovis
Evariste-Vital Luminais(1822 - 1896) | D.912.1.1
Date : Après 1880 | Medium : Oil on canvas
According to a legend that emerged in the 12th century, the two sons of Clovis II revolted against their father after he had set off on a crusade. Condemned for their rebellion, they were punished in accordance with their sin, and were deprived of their vital force. The operation consisted of ‘revmoing their life force’ them by burning the tendons of their muscles so that they could no longer move. Their parents, moved by pity, then decided to surrender them to the grace of God. They had them placed in a small boat with no oars or rudder, and abandoned them to drift on the Seine.
This is the scene chosen by the artist: rejecting the literal interpretation of the text, where a servant accompanies the princes (this character can be seen in one of the preparatory sketches), he isolates the recumbent figures in a vast and dreary space where sky and sea meet. The two inert princes are warmly covered by a blanket with Merovingian decoration on the boat, which contains velvet cushions. The ever-burning candle behind a reliquary with flowers indicates God's protection, while in the distance a white dawn announces a safe refuge: a monk from the abbey at Jumièges will find them and take care of them, and they will live out a life of holiness there.
mbarouen.fr/…
This article reviews the process of discovery of the nervous system from Pythagoras (570-500 BC) to Galen (130-201 AD). After Galen, no anatomical studies were performed before the renaissance. According to a legend, probably produced for political reasons, two brothers, sons of the French king Clovis II, revolted against their father and were sentenced to loose their physical powers by having the nerves of their arms and legs cut. They were then set adrift on the river Seine, stranding at the Jumiège monastery. The earliest written version of this legend stems from the fourteenth century; it was probably a part of the local French mythology. This indicates that the existence of the peripheral nervous system, and therefore also in part the knowledge contained in the early anatomical works, quite early may have been more or less known outside academic circles.
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Although Pythagoras (570 – 500 BC) believed that the brain was the seat of consciousness and movement, it was not until Herophilus (325 – 255 BC), Erasistratus (304 – 250 BC) and later Galen (130 – 201 AD) that the existence of a nervous system was recognized. After Galen, anatomical studies were not carried out until the Renaissance. The legend is already mentioned in several sources in the 14th century, and apparently became part of folk mythology early on. This testifies that the concept of a nervous system, and thus parts of the knowledge from the early anatomical works, may have been known to a greater or lesser extent even by others than the philosophically educated in the Middle Ages. x x YouTube Video
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