The Ornamented Being
Ornamented: -verb: Adorn; beautify
Be·ing: -noun: Fulfillment of possibilities; essential completeness
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Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
- Lamartine.
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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
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I feel like a failure I queued six posts and I feel exhausted. I’m going to crawl into the birds nest and see if I feel better after a nap.
Tomorrow’s post is totally lame. I’m trying to decide whether or not I want to just delete it and wait until I feel like a normal human again.
Sorry loves ;{
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Guh. I’m alive.
I don’t know how though. We flew through the tail end of Irene and there was about five minutes there where I pulled my rosary out and said every prayer I could think.
Made it to Londontown but my birds nest is calling and I need to sleep.
xxxx
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The Melville Bed
ca. 1700
“The bedstead consists of an oak bedstock (frame) with four oak posts secured to the rails with bolts. It retains its original ropes and linen ticking fabric to support the mattresses. The top of the posts hold iron spikes that secure the tester (upper horizontal section) and cornice. The coved interior of the tester is built up with facetted boards. The Chinese silk lining bears a Chinese inscription on the selvedge (finished edge of the fabric). Traces of pencil on the underside of the tester cloth provide guidelines for the application of braid and fringe. The curtains are made of joined widths of velvet.”
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c. 1590-1600
V&A
“his bed is in the typical style of carved wooden beds of the 1590s but it is remarkable for its large size. It is over 326 centimetres wide. The height was slightly reduced in the 19th century. The human figures carved on the headboard would originally have been brightly painted.
Places
The bed was probably made as a curiosity to attract customers to one of the inns at Ware, Hertfordshire. Ware is 22 miles from London, then a day’s journey on horseback or by coach. The town had many inns in the 1590s.
Historical Associations
The bed has been famous since it was made. William Shakespeare mentioned it in his play Twelfth Night, first performed in 1601. The contemporary playwright Ben Jonson called it ‘the great bed at Ware’ in a play in 1609. Visitors often carved their initials on the bed or applied red wax seals, which are still visible on the bedposts and headboard today.”
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Empress Josephine’s bedroom at Malmaison
