GRGR(30): You will want cause and effect.

[Paul Mackin]

On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Dave Monroe wrote:

> . . . And, while I'm hesitant as well to consider Michaelangelo a
> "psotmodernist" avant la lettre, I do believe David (how many DMs are on
> this list?) is correct in that MB did paint in quite a few conetmporary
> figures under the guise of Biblical figures, in ways not entirely lacking
> in a certain sense of irony.  


Is it reasonable to assume the genius/advanced thinkers of every age
felt the need to abandon strict sincerity with regard to the standard
thinking of their time? Thus Irony was born. If it had not already been 
invented as a dramatic device. The Greeks had a word for it.

Not saying this particular example is such a case.

			P.