Monday, August 11, 2008

Mark Rothko paintings

Mark Rothko paintings
Montague Dawson paintings
Mary Cassatt paintings
north and north to south. My father was a workman on the highway. There were thousands of men working on that road, for a while. Men from the southern homesteads ... Only men. Women were not asked to go and do that work. Bayder women did not do such work. Women were to stay with the children, they told us, while men did the work."
Kergemmeg sipped his ii thoughtfully and gazed off at the glimmering sea and the star-dusted sky.
"Women went down from the and talked to the men," he said. "They said to listen to them, not only to the Bayderac ... Perhaps women don't feel shame the way men do. Perhaps their shame is different, more a matter of the body than the mind. They didn't care much for the cars and airplanes and bulldozers but cared a great deal about that would change us and the rules about who did which kind of work. After all, with us, the woman

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