Fountain

from the Readymade collection by marcel duchamp

Update: Virgin Mary Stain

a 37 yr. old man was charged with vandalism and defacing state property for writing "BIG LIE" in black shoe polish over the yellow, white stain under a Chicago overpass that resembled the virgin mary. pilgrims wept as state workers painted over the defaced stain.

The Ecstasy of St. Theresa of Avila

Beside me on the left appeared an angel in bodily form . . . He was not tall but short, and very beautiful; and his face was so aflame that he appeared to be one of the highest ranks of angels, who seem to be all on fire . . . In his hands I saw a great golden spear, and at the iron tip there appeared to be a point of fire. This he plunged into my heart several times so that it penetrated my entrails. When he pulled it out I felt that he took them with it, and left me utterly consumed by the great love of God. The pain was so severe that it made me utter several moans. The sweetness caused by this intense pain is so extreme that one can not possibly wish it to cease, nor is one's soul content with anything but God. This is not a physical but a spiritual pain, though the body has some share in it -- even a considerable share.

dirty euphemistic nun!

hm... third catholic satirizing post. is anyone offended yet?

excerpted from Catherine Mulroney's article, "Life inside the Star Wars galaxy", The Toronto Star, May 2, 2005

"While watching television coverage of the election of Pope Benedict XVI, I launched into a monologue on what this might mean for the Catholic Church.

I was interrupted mid-sentence, however, by a child who was compelled to remark upon how closely the new Pope resembled Emperor Palpatine."

perturbation theory

by coupling angular momentum and spin, degeneracy can be avoided as the perturbation energies can be found to be slightly "off". i.e. while we both had the same marks for quantum, i failed the perturbation portion, while you failed the spin-spin coupling, thus our marks are not degenerate and the professor cannot accuse us of cheating. the other argument is that 36% is our usual mark in quantum anyway.