Not transit if Venus but still

[Mark Kohut]

"as the story was told and retold again"...nice

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 6:37 AM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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