Peter Paul Rubens Hippopotamus and Crocodile Hunt painting

Peter Paul Rubens Hippopotamus and Crocodile Hunt paintingJohn William Waterhouse In the Peristyle paintingJohn Singer Sargent A Dinner Table at Night painting
Saladin had ample opportunity in the next many days to contemplate the tears in things. He remained at first virtually immobile in his den, allowing it to grow back around him at its own pace, waiting for it to regain something of the solid comforting quality of its old self, as it had been before the altering of the universe. He watched a good deal of television with half an eye, channel-hopping compulsively, for he was a member of the remote-control culture of the present as much as the piggy boy on the street corner; he, too, could comprehend, or at least enter the illusion of comprehending, the composite video monster his button-pushing brought into being ... what a leveller this remote--control gizmo was, a Procrustean bed for the twentieth century; it chopped down the heavyweight and stretched out the slight until all the set's emissions, commercials, , the thousand and one varying joys and terrors of the real and the imagined, acquired an equal