The diamond parure of Marie Antoinette, from the exhibition devoted to her at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
It is a great pity that I could not attend the exhibition, since I have no English visa, but thanks to a correspondent in England I shall prepare a detailed report all the same. Do not touch that dial.
At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the
Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least
