Self-Portrait 2015

[peter]

Murrin retains his youthfull good-looks year on year with an almost un-nerving degree of 'Dorian Gray' like cpapacity.

I have no camera [or mobile phone, I-Pad, Pod or Pid], no 'eye' in my lap-top or knowledge of how to post a photo or a link to it, even if I had the means to go digital - so I will describe myself instead. I'm 5' 7", about 230lb, wearing a stained M&S dog-tooth check shirt, worn brown chinos and cordouroy slippers. My hair is silver and about 2 inches long [just covering the tops of my ears] sitting on top of a round, slightly florid face. My glasses [brown-rimmed narrow framed] sit ontop of a nose, neither large or small, turned up or pointed. In profile I'm a bit 'chinless', like [in fact very like] one of those images of roman emporers you see on roman coins. My eyes, neither sunken or protruberant are evenly sized and [I think] well spaced, lending neither craftiness [too narrow] or stupidity [to wide] to my countenance. They are blue, but today a bit red and yellowish as a result of exesses comitted over the Christmas and New-Year. They sit under bushy grey eyebrows that are way too long and in need of a controlling crop. My lips are neither fleshy nor thin, but the corners do tend to turn down a bit as a result of my 'bite' [I tend, as a bad habit, not out of deformity, to close my mouth with my lower teeth outside my upper [all still my own], thus pushing forward my lower jaw {perhaps psychologically to overcome the smallness of chin I mentioned above - I've never thought of it before} and pulling down the corners of my mouth] My New-Years resolution will be to stop this.] My countenance is one of stern-ness, but I am not wrinkled and I am clean shaven. If you had to think of a celebrity to 'pin my features' most closely too it would be....hmmm.......I'll have to get back on that one.

[nb The humour absent in my face can on occasion be evident in my eyes.]
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If you've ever wondered how you would have behaved in one of the great developments of historical oppression of the twentieth century - now you know.

....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'

We are the Bloodguard

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Get somebody to take a pic, and email it to the address in my profile. I'll post it for you.

--A
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It's easy to judge. It's more difficult to understand.

[peter]

Who knows Av - I may just do that!
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If you've ever wondered how you would have behaved in one of the great developments of historical oppression of the twentieth century - now you know.

....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'

We are the Bloodguard

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Any time.

--A
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It's easy to judge. It's more difficult to understand.

[aTOMiC]

What the heck.

I haven't uploaded a pic in years.
I probably shouldn't be doing this at work though. Don't tell anyone.


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Haha, you look pretty much the same TOM.

--A
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It's easy to judge. It's more difficult to understand.

[lorin]

ok....me
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The loudest truth I ever heard was the softest sound.

[Linna Heartbooger]

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"There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored.
The reader of today looks for this motion, and rightly so, but what he has forgotten is the cost of it.

His sense of evil is diluted or lacking altogether, and so he has forgotten the price of restoration.
When he reads a novel, he wants either his sense tormented or his spirits raised..."
-Flannery O'Connor

[Orlion]

Someone is not amused!
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'Tis dream to think that Reason can
Govern the reasoning creature, man.
- Herman Melville

I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!

"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
-John Crowley

[lorin]

[Linna Heartbooger]

I dunno lorin; I think some people would be intimidated.

For starters, you have the signature "I am that which emerged from the fire" under your portrait.
The set of your chin and jaw give you a determined, no-nonsense look.
And then there are auburn flames..

Umm, please tell me if you would rather I had just shut up instead of saying that...

[lorin]

[Orlion]

[Damelon]

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But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. ~ Carl Sagan

[Sorus]

Looking good, guys. I think this is the best participation we've had yet.
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Oh, a change is coming, feel these doors now closing
Is there no world for tomorrow, if we wait for today?

[Linna Heartbooger]

[Frostheart Grueburn]

Foamfollower a couple of replies up ought to post a sound file of recorded laughter as a part of the ensemble.

Here's a better one to compensate for the snot-and-cough picture. Frosty and K. acting as if 30 years younger (no booze involved!).

[Damelon]

Nice picture, Little Giant!
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But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. ~ Carl Sagan

[sgt.null]

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10205761235332664&set=pb.1309665654.-2207520000.1422594203.&type=3&theater

me at the San Antonio zoo
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life's not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis”
― E.E. Cummings