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by **Code Unknown** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 3:41 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SulBvd3DjBs

Hang on to our leather chains...

by **brainpanhandler** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 5:57 pm

Fascinating. I adore this sculpture. Take a look at the full res version of this photo at wikipedia to check out the details of this sculpture. I can't believe this was chiseled out of marble.

Photo by Luc Viatour

Wikipedia wrote:Le génie du mal (installed 1848) or The Genius of Evil, known informally in English as Lucifer or The Lucifer of Liège,[1] is a religious sculpture executed in white marble by the Belgian artist Guillaume Geefs. Francophone art historians most often refer to the figure as an ange déchu, a "fallen angel." It is located within the elaborate pulpit (French chaire de vérité, "seat of truth") of St. Paul's Cathedral, Liège, and depicts a classically beautiful man in his physical prime, chained, seated, and nearly nude but for drapery gathered over his thighs, his full length ensconced within a mandorla of bat wings. Geefs' work replaces an earlier sculpture created for the space by his younger brother Joseph Geefs, which was removed from the cathedral because of its distracting allure and "unhealthy beauty."[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_g%C3%A9 ... Himmelsweg

Looks like someone tried to set him free.

by **barracuda** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 6:10 pm

by **Cosmic Cowbell** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 6:49 pm

by **Code Unknown** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 7:09 pm

by **brainpanhandler** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 7:22 pm

Chains can mean freedom as well...

Well, yah. I suppose...

But having climbed to heights of sublimity with The Genius of Evil, I don't want to neglect the utter depths of depravity:

Ha, Edit to correct The Evil of Genius.

by **brainpanhandler** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 7:52 pm

Obviously I have way too much time on my hands. Flipping around cable today I came across this episode of Sanford and Son. Esther is having a talent show to raise money for her church. Grady sends off for a magic kit so he can be in the show. Among the tricks he has not perfected just yet is the famous chinese wristlocks trick.

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGdV2u9dkOo]

Fred G. Sanford: “Presto? Man I’m gonna presto your nose all over your face. C’mon Grady, get us outta this.”[/url]

by **Jeff** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 8:00 pm

by **barracuda** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 8:15 pm

brainpanhandler wrote:But having climbed to heights of sublimity with The Genius of Evil, I don't want to neglect the utter depths of depravity...

By no means; neglect them not.

by **lightningBugout** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 8:35 pm

chains

Chains can mean freedom as well...

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