Leonard & Anjani Tonight at the Richard Goodall Gallery

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Greg - could I ask you the reason for your scary picture? it puts me off conversing with you.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
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It has been awhile since I visited the Zoo but I would always go to the Gorilla enclosure first. Melbourne Zoo has a breeding program for Western Lowland Gorillas and they have a large natural habitat enclosure with glass walls. I think they are beautiful animals.

It's strange but ~greg's avatar does affect how I 'see' him (sort of big and gruff but trying to be good?) and yet I know it's completely irrational.
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damellon wrote:Greg - could I ask you the reason for your scary picture? it puts me off conversing with you.
oh dear - not the intended effect at all.

The ape is taken from a promo picture from Peter Jackson's
King Kong (2005) (with Naomi Watts as Ann Darrow
and Andy Serkis as Kong (-who was also Gollum in The Lord of the Rings.) )

(It's an incredibly good version of KK (my all-time favorite story,
next to Beauty and the Beast) and I totally recommend seeing it.
But whatever else you do in this life, DO NOT CONFUSE IT
with the 1976 Jessica Lange - Jeff Bridges travesty! ).

I added the wings as a tenuously stretched interpretation
of Cohen's line: "an ape with angel glands".

So, the avatar means: - "the human condition".
A kind of "memento mori".

Whenever I see it, I think to myself
"greg, you're never going to fly.
But as long as you think you can, you'll be alright."
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Well Greg
Thank you for the explanation and I'm glad I asked. In these favourite stories are you the Beauty or the Beast? each brings its own problems. Momenti mori - at 2.30am - do I need to be reminded of death? Yes- you can fly! Believe it. I enjoy your posts so shall try to turn a blind eye to the picture in future. Thanks for responding.
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Blonde Madonna

'big and gruff but trying to be good' - you really are a 'glass half full' person, aren't you? Don't doubt that Greg is a 'good' person but how could we figure this from the avatar? I thought he might be a scary bully who would brook no alternative opinion. There we are - the two ends of the spectrum - that's what makes the world go round.
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Tim, the hat suits you very well. :)
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