Not transit if Venus but still

[jochen stremmel]

I meant Ovid:

The Sun sees all things first. The sun, they say,
Was the first one who spied on Mars and Venus
When they were making love. The Sun, offended,
Went with the story to her husband, Vulcan,
Telling him all, the when, the how, the where,
And Vulcan dropped whatever he was doing,
And made a net, with such fine links of bronze
No eye could see the mesh; no woolen thread
Was ever so delicate, no spider ever
Spun filament so frail from any rafter.
He made it so the slightest touch would bend it,
The slightest movement make it give, and then
He spread it over the bed, and when the lovers
Came there again, the husband's cunning art
Caught them and held them fast, and there they were
Held in each other's arms, and Vulcan, lord
Of Lemnos, opened wide the ivory doors
And called the gods to come and see. they lay there,
The two, in bondage, in disgrace. And someone,
Not the least humorous of the gods in Heaven,
Prayed that some day he might be overtaken
By such disgrace himself. And there was laughter
For a long time in Heaven, as the story
Was told and told again.
----- Translated by Rolfe Humphries


But there's a painting of Mars by Velázquez that's not bad:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Resting


2015-02-23 17:22 GMT+01:00 rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>:

> you mean Paul McCartney & Wings
>
> or Coltrane's interstellar space
>
> or Holst's bringers thereof?
>
> i like 'em all but Venus more
>
> rich
>
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 4:13 AM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> You know that Mars and Venus had a fling?
>>
>>
>> http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pinakothek.de%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fimagecache%2Fthumb_lightbox_light%2Fgemaelde%2Foriginal%2F8992_11722.jpg&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pinakothek.de%2Fjacopo-tintoretto%2Fvulkan-ueberrascht-venus-und-mars&h=605&w=886&tbnid=or7nh9ZfDxadcM%3A&zoom=1&docid=qDm0TZAuELWd7M&hl=de&ei=le7qVK6WD4HeOMTAgMAH&tbm=isch&iact=rc&uact=3&dur=553&page=1&start=0&ndsp=16&ved=0CCUQrQMwAQ
>>
>> 2015-02-23 2:12 GMT+01:00 rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> not to this worshipper of the goddess ;)
>>>
>>> mars belongs to Them.
>>>
>>> rich
>>>
>>> On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 3:46 PM, David Ewers <dsewers at comcast.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Mars was in there too.
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>
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