Epiphany

To this bishop,

To paraphrase Michael Walsh, Well excuuuuuse me! Of course pastoral nativity scenes are stylized and not photorealistic: that’s just the point. Since when is that a crime?

“Conditioned by the movies, television, and an increasingly stupid popular culture to prize and expect “realism”–indeed to confuse realism with art–American audiences [and I guess English bishops] have been losing the capacity to seperate art from artifice for the past three decades or so.”

His poo-pooing of nativity art is a prime example of the “triumph of brute empiricism over the imagination…”

Scott

‘Right Hook’ Balthasar, ‘Smasher’ Caspar, and ‘Blackjack’ Melchior crouched in the shadow of a large boulder. Looking into the cave which Smasher had marked the previous night, they saw a young woman with a baby, an older man standing over them.

“Ya know what, boys,” Smasher said, “how ’bout we *not* kill ’em. Let’s give ’em some gifts. Whadaya think? I got that gold from the ‘job’ on Simon Antipodes with me – I’ll give that.”

“Alright!” said Blackjack, slipping his Glock back into it shoulder holster. “I’ll run back to the hotel and get that box of myrrh.”

Right hook said nothing, but swapped his machete for a heavy, sweet-smelling bag.

They went in.

I just noticed. Isn’t the term ‘Three Wise Men’ Politically incorrect? 😀