"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Art and Madness: The David syndrome - is it jealousy or something else that makes men mad when they look at Michelangelo's David? After all, not everyone can do as Napoleon, and turn turn himself into David. (I know he's supposed to be Mars, but he's always looked suspiciously like David to me.) posted by Sydney on
11/26/2005 08:26:00 AM
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Bizarre. I am a male, I have seen David in Florence towering over me, but all I ever felt was a great admiration for this fabulous sculptor Michaelangelo... Am I the fringes of the male population, or is Magherini and colleagues off in the twilight?
