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A collection of Helen of Troy stories. " The artist prepares himself for his greatest challenge: to draw the portrait of the most beautiful woman in the ancient world. In his mind, the portrait has already come into existence, and his heart is speaking to it along every preceding, yet unrealized phase. Watching your birth. Watching you breathe. Watching you hurt. Oh, Helen, world's ancient living beauty, nothing is going to stop your beauty from starting. Your beauty beats beneath these eyes. Nothing is going to stop these eyes from staring into the void. In the most unbreakable of beginnings, your beauty has already filled the void. The perfectly conceived ethereal portrait appears to him fully. It has come into being, becoming firmly fixed and embedded in his mind. And then the artist sets out to reproduce it. The process begins. A line is being drawn in quick, wavy motions, rapidly intersecting with other lines that gradually begin to form a beautiful visage. Two almond-shaped eyes begin to form in mere seconds, and the whiteness within them is partially concealed by an iris. A river of emotion flows back and forth between these eyes, which become sharper and sharper. The dim curvatures of her cheeks become firm. The visage is already alive in the onlooker's eye. It has become more focused, absorbing detail after detail as the flawless complexion becomes livelier. The face is slowly becoming whole. Each of these eyes is struck with flashes of invisible lightning, which are bursts of emotion that fade as quickly as the stream of sentience that runs along the intersecting lines. These flashes of emotion shed light on a lingering inner pool. How can such beauty be captured? This beauty is merely a sketch, but the eyes of this beautiful woman become wide and clear. The sketch has now become a portrait. The eyes of the artist who just completed this portrait peer into the otherworldly depths of this woman's beauty. The eyes of this beautiful woman instantly lend this image the aura of authenticity. The veneer of pure, untarnished beauty. These eyes give a voice to the universe, shedding unseen tears from future years arising from a distant cosmic ocean. It sheds these tears now in order to dry out that ocean and replace it with the unyielding curiosity that will allow onlookers to decipher this beauty for generations to come. The ocean to vanish completely. But then the meaning of this beauty retreats under the cold gaze of history. This beauty instantly fills the void, but for now these eyes swallow back their cosmic tears and keep the blissful mystery of this beauty alive. Someone will find the portrait and let the ocean drop steadily into cold eyes, which will absorb these intangible tears. Then they will shed these tears and allow the river between both eyes to become a steady stream forming between past and present. These eyes will become livelier than ever because the life in them has never been drowned out by the waning light of years and centuries.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781530118991
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 370
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: A Portrait
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1530118999
  • Publisher Date: 19 Feb 2016
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Weight: 494 gr


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