Apollo Belvedere

i have always been in love with heine indeed the men whom i have loved have been long dead mine have been loves of the brain and of art sexless infidelities of a dreamer i have loved ferdinand lasalle a friend of heine i loved petronius the patrician who declared that good in no wise differs from evil I loved the youthful Sophocles, who danced and sang for the returning victors of Salamis.

I loved Goethe, as women have always loved him, that handsome, youthful Goethe, who posed for his portrait in Rome, standing proudly by the side of the Apollo Belvedere.

Now you can see how we are going to enjoy ourselves on that planet in space.

There, like Orion the hunter who bore the bow of gold, you will hunt down and make real all the old vain dreams of the earth.

Now, when Isabella can't afford that, and sometimes the pope puts an embargo on stuff leaving Rome so he can have it for himself, what she does is to commission a local artist who's brilliant at bronze to make her tiny bronze copies.

of famous Roman artifacts, so the Apollo Belvedere, or the Liocoon, or the Boy with a Thorn, all of which would have been collector's pieces.

And if you go to Ferrara or Mantua, certainly if you go to Modena, which is one of the cities they owned, in the museum there, for instance, you'll see a really tiny boy taking a thorn out of this foot.

It is absolutely beautiful and perfect, but it is this big.