[Writingworkshop] Raphael was so straight

[Adam Holland]

I see him offering it up hopefully, trying to be part of the conversation.
"Raphael?"
"No"
*(Hart makes the "Awww... face)*

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Neale Morison <nmorison at mit.edu> wrote:

> 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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