Reading this: "The painting has such regard for realism that it even shows drops of dew
dripping from the flowers and a bee settling on the flowers--whether a
real bee has been deceived by the painted flowers or whether we are to
be deceived into thinking that a painted bee is real, I do not know." (from the Imagines of Philostratus the Elder, translated by Arthur Fairbanks)
Hearing from a colleague that his daughter (who graduated maybe ten years ago?) thinks of me as one of her favorite professors from her time at college. It was kind of him to say so (and a welcome vote of confidence at the start of a new school year).
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