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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Intentions by Oscar Wilde: working their miracles: the heroes in their victory or in their
pain. Sometimes he would etch in thin vermilion lines upon a
ground of white the languid bridegroom and his bride, with Eros
hovering round them - an Eros like one of Donatello's angels, a
little laughing thing with gilded or with azure wings. On the
curved side he would write the name of his friend. [Greek text
which cannot be reproduced] tells us the story of his days. Again,
on the rim of the wide flat cup he would draw the stag browsing, or
the lion at rest, as his fancy willed it. From the tiny perfume-
bottle laughed Aphrodite at her toilet, and, with bare-limbed
Maenads in his train, Dionysus danced round the wine-jar on naked
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