What's In The Bag Game ?
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"Ring around the rosey..."
"Ring around the rosey..."
Have you hugged your arghule today?
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"For millions of years
mankind lived just like the animals.
Then something happened
that unleashed the power of our imagination -
we learned to talk."
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If PRO and CON are opposites,
then the opposite of PROgress must be...
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It's 4:19...
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"For millions of years
mankind lived just like the animals.
Then something happened
that unleashed the power of our imagination -
we learned to talk."
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If PRO and CON are opposites,
then the opposite of PROgress must be...
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It's 4:19...
gotta minute?
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If he's not right, I'll ask, "What's it used for?" (Re the contents, NOT the bag!)
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They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
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It looks like a cross between one of those fancy pears you sometimes see at the market, and a Mantid explosive device from WoW. It's also about the right size and shape to be a Magic 8 Ball, and she looks like she might own such a thing, so that's my guess.
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It's too smooth and perfectly round. I suppose it could be butterfly-attracting potpourri, but I'm going to stick with my original guess. It's true that Magic 8 Balls didn't exist in the 1860s, but the artist didn't paint the contents of the bag, and there's nothing to say the current contents aren't from the present day.
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That's a good point!Sorus wrote:It's too smooth and perfectly round. I suppose it could be butterfly-attracting potpourri, but I'm going to stick with my original guess. It's true that Magic 8 Balls didn't exist in the 1860s, but the artist didn't paint the contents of the bag, and there's nothing to say the current contents aren't from the present day.
I had had the impression it was a snowglobe, which, might have contained a miniature church and steeple in a quaint little town with a river and a bridge. You know, I could imagine crossing over that bridge and into the town and going down a street where might be a window through which I'd catch a glimpse of a painting on the wall of a ... well, you get the picture, I'm sure.
Snowglobes, it seems, predate the painting by two years or so. First arriving on the scene around 1878 at the Paris Universal Expo - which, matter-of-factly, also had on display the head of the Statue of Liberty. Sophie Anderson's painting is dated 1876.
After reading the first part of The Last Dark, and
Spoiler
Brinn's gift to Covenant
As Sophie Anderson was known for her Christmasy themes then maybe the bag contains a bright shining star. And as both can adorn the top of the Christmas Tree this then seems like a good enough guess to me.
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It could definitely be a snowglobe. My first inclination was to picture a butterfly theme, but I don't think I've ever seen a butterfly snowglobe (perhaps butterflies and snow don't mix) - and the scene that you pictured would definitely work.
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Ok, my mistake. I should have said everyone is correct.wayfriend wrote:
Well, if you don't know the answer, then how are we going to win?
The title of the picture says she is attended by butterflies, flowers, and jewels. Where are the jewels, if not in the bag?
Where, huh? Where?
However, as for the jewels being in the bag according to the verse and title, well maybe! I suppose the flowers have also been stuffed into the bag along with the jewels.
Initially, I was interested in the reaction to this thread rather than any outcome of winners or prizes. And it's very interesting how shadowbinding shoe thought of a golden ball. Having not seen the Disney film, The Princess and the Frog, I'm assuming the ball is a solid sphere made of gold and not a large room with a sparkling chandlier and fountain, a large orchestra, and a hundred guests formally attired and glittering with ... damn! I wish now I'd put this thread in the Entire Chronicles.
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Wayfriend - she has a jeweled necklace. So if we take the verse literally the bag isfull of flowers (or potpuri)
Vizidor - Yes I meant a little spherical ball made out of gold. I'm pretty sure has one in the original story (she drops it in the pond and the frogs drags it out from the bottom for her. Goes to show you what musclebeasts little princesses and palace frogs were in those days. )
Vizidor - Yes I meant a little spherical ball made out of gold. I'm pretty sure has one in the original story (she drops it in the pond and the frogs drags it out from the bottom for her. Goes to show you what musclebeasts little princesses and palace frogs were in those days. )