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Ooooh Nooooo!

Stolen from Museum in Norway [NYT]

OSLO, Norway (AP) — Edvard Munch’s famous paintings “The Scream” and “Madonna” were stolen from an art museum Sunday while stunned museum-goers watched armed men threatening the staff at gunpoint as they took the artworks to a waiting car, police said.

As an art historian, several things come to mind:

  1. The Scream should be visualized making the Mr. Bill expression I have titled this entry with.
  2. Somewhere a supervillain strokes a long-haired Persian cat, chuckling.
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in the whale's eye

Pursuant to an interesting discussion, In the Heart of the Sea, by Nathaniel Philbrick is hereby bookmarked, or rather linked.

The book is said to be based upon the incident that became the basis for Moby Dick. I’m starting to lean into nineteenth-century readings again and this sounds tasty.

Given my towering pile of on-deck matter, however, it may be a few moons before I get to this one.