I love the earbones.
"The Skull and the Level" mosaic from Pompeii. It represents Death as the great equalizer which cancels out differences of wealth and classpic.twitter.com/5df0CSIuKx
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Ha I couldn’t figure out what made this skull look so odd.
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It doesn’t though, does it? Death is something we all have in common but it certainly isn’t an equaliser. ‘There is gross inequality but that’s ok because we all die’ is bollocks.
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In the end everyone's a corpse. Between this and the memento mori this is kind of a Roman theme. Humility taught by way of the inevitability of death.
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Humility and a shared respect is not equality.
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No the equality comes from the fact that you are reduced to empty vessels in the ground, your wealth rendered utterly useless and pointless to you. In the end the ashes of a rich man are completely indescribable from the ashes of a poor man.
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I understand that. My point is that it’s too late to make any difference.
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But the point is to remind people of that fact in order to change their behavior. It's a symbol of the fact that your works and the people around you are the only things that outlive you.
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That’s on a French version of Edgar Allan Poe « Tales of the grotesque and arabesque » !pic.twitter.com/U5Z9BlMJ3H
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This is shown in Pink Floyd live at Pompeii.
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I watch this at least once a year.
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Memento mori
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Cette mosaïque apparaît dans le live AT Pompéi des Ponk floyd
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Also pictured doing a little dance in the intro to Rome.
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When in Rome!
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Have seen this, it resides the archaeology museum of Naples, it's a fabulous and striking piece of art.
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Willing to lend an ear?
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