[Writingworkshop] Raphael was so straight

[Neale Morison]

You're right. Done. What do you mean, if? You can't not have a joke you 
thought of.
Raphael got a bum rap for screwing up art. The argument of the 
pre-Raphaelites seemed to be that the perfection of his technique 
focused everyone on beauty rather than truth. But Keats was right when 
he said that they are the same thing. And if they were worried about 
greeting card art, I've seen more non-representational Van Gogh on 
greeting cards than Raphaelesque madonnas. More's the pity.


Adam Holland wrote:
> you could have Hart offer his name questioningly and then Bern or 
> Sarah could say "no, not him."
> If you really wanted to have that joke, that is.
>
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Neale Morison <nmorison at mit.edu 
> <mailto:nmorison at mit.edu>> wrote:
>
>     After extensive and detailed research (wikipedia article) I have
>     concluded that Raphael should not be included in the gay list, despite
>     the fact that this would complete the roll call of ninja turtles.
>     It is
>     rumored that Raphael died at the early age of thirty seven because
>     of a
>     night of excessive sex with the favorite of his many mistresses.
>     Of course, it could have been the mercury and lead in the paint,
>     and it
>     could have been his insistence on living in 1520 Rome, notoriously
>     hazardous, particularly if you went to a doctor.
>     Why she was the favorite:
>     http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Fornarina.jpg
>     If further proof were needed, you can tell he's straight by the way he
>     draws breasts.
>     You can also tell by the self-portrait he did in his teens:
>     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Sanzio_00.jpg
>     A more compelling study of a boy attempting to look intriguingly
>     artistic to women I have yet to see.
>
>
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