Ah, ease at last. Some of these experiments can be a bit tortured. And some are so pleasurable. This was one of the latter. The words come from pgs 652-653 of the desktop encyclopedia, Ghibellines to Gibson (as in Gibson girl). And the image is from the endlessly wonderful Hubble.
A brilliant door revealed
Jesus and The Prophet play tennis, the old man and his grandson as star giants, hundreds of thousands of times brighter than the sun. They have long hair, acumen, Michelangelo masses. The Virgin and Saint John won mixed doubles. She has prolific feminine beauty, he a poetic technique. Their long arms swing (with reduced radii and brightness) through history, connected with equilibrium and mystical joy. The notion that the spirit is separate from the world of the living coincided with a nebulous sense of mathematical rigor. But close contact with thermodynamic theory revealed that wherever there is a prophet-dreamer, a brilliant door is revealed—a way of life imminent. Much detailed knowledge dances from branch to branch, hastened by songs and contact. God as big tree and sculptor or wearer, a prolific manufacturer of sheer, inaccessible nature, widely imitated. Probably not an agent of monopoly control or existential tragedy. She of strong emotion, born as a saturniid moth? Dress her in bronze, attach her fruits to sand and foam in radiating death-life-revelation.
The image is from the Flickr stream of the NASA Goddard Space Center, and their April 22, 2010 caption info explains, in part: "This brand new Hubble photo is of a small portion of one of the largest seen star-birth regions in the galaxy, the Carina Nebula. Towers of cool hydrogen laced with dust rise from the wall of the nebula.... The image captures the top of a three-light-year-tall pillar of gas and dust that is being eaten away by the brilliant light from nearby bright stars."
