READ:
by Ann Patchett
-Memoir | Goodreads
WATCH:
On Truth...
The Life and Death of Sandra Bland (2018)
Director: Kate Davis, David Heilbroner
-Documentary | imdb | my rating: 5
An investigation into what happened to activist Sandra Bland, who died in police custody after a routine traffic stop.
SCARY to know that things like this are still happening in America.
On Beauty...
Director: Marshall Herskovitz
Writer: Jeannine Dominy
Based on book by: Margaret Rosenthal
Stars: Catherine McCormack, Rufus Sewell
-Biography , Drama , Romance | imdb | my rating: 5
A Venetian courtesan becomes a hero to her city, but later becomes the target of an inquisition by the Church for witchcraft.
NICELY done with wonderful scenes of Venice and its canals. Never knew about this woman, Veronica Franco.
In poetry...
-Shakespeare (here)
O truant Muse what shall be thy amends
For thy neglect of truth in beauty dyed?
Both truth and beauty on my love depends;
So dost thou too, and therein dignified.
Make answer Muse: wilt thou not haply say,
'Truth needs no colour, with his colour fixed;
Beauty no pencil, beauty's truth to lay;
But best is best, if never intermixed'?
Because he needs no praise, wilt thou be dumb?
Excuse not silence so, for't lies in thee
To make him much outlive a gilded tomb
And to be praised of ages yet to be.
Then do thy office, Muse; I teach thee how
To make him seem, long hence, as he shows now.
In science...
* header from Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Lady Lilith (here) which was mentioned in the exhibit, Truth and Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Old Masters, at the Legion of Honor which I attended over the summer.
* part of the Blog All About It Challenge (here)
