Mona Lisa

 

     

                                                               London Café : Mona Lisa  

 

Mike, James and Anna waiting in the café for Robin. Today London was too chilled. The snowfall started and at the same time Robin entered in the café.

Robin: Hi guys , sorry for late bcoz of snowfall I am not able to came at time.

Mike: It’s ok dear. You are late that means there must be some exciting news you are covered.

Robin: Ya of Couse that’s my duty right. The news is about world’s greatest and mysterious painting MONA LISA which was created by famous painter Da Vinchi.

Anna: Ya, everyone one knows that. But what is the mystery in that dear?

James: Dear tell us everything you know about the painting

Robin: Ya of course. Know listen carefully

              The latest study about Mona Lisa says that the women in painting was Italian noble women

“ Lisa Gherardini” the wife of Francesco del Giocondo. It is painted in oil on white Lombardy poplar panel. It had been believed to have been painted between 1503 – 1506. It was acquired by king Francis 1 of France and now the property of the French Republic. It has been permanent display at Louvre in Paris since 1797.

James: Robin I know it’s wrong to value the fine art in currency, but this painting must be too expensive, right?

Robin : Ya, in the year 1962 the cost of painting was US$100 million. It holds the Guinnes World Record for the highest known painting.

You know what is the meaning of name Mona Lisa?

James : No dear, tell us if you know ?

Robin: Yes, the meaning of name Mona Lisa is My Lady. As of now so many researchers note down their observations regarding the painting. Research in 2003, by Prof Margaret Living stone of Harvard University said that moralist’s smile disappears when observed with direct vision. And that’s why the smile of Mona Lisa was too mysterious. Da Vinci never completed this painting. Actually the painting you saw was incomplete.

Anna: But Robin there is nothing incomplete in this painting?

Robin: Don’t know but Da Vinci said that Mona Lisa was never completed.

You know Napoleon Bonaparte loved this painting so much and therefore he built this painting in his bedroom. There was one lover of Mona Lisa , who loved her at that limit that he thrown the stone on the painting. In 1911, the painting was stolen. The French poet Guillaume Apollinaire came under the suspicion and was arrested and imprisoned. In this case his friend and great artist Pablo Picasso also questioning. Both were later exonerated. The real culprit was Louvre’s employee Vincenzo Peruggia who had helped construct the paintings glass case. He carried out the theft by entering the building during regular hours , hiding in a broom closet and walking out with the painting hidden under his coat after the museum had close. After having kept the Mona Lisa in his apartment for two years , Peruggia grew impatient and was caught when he attempted to sell it to Giovanni Poggi ,director of the Uffizi gallery in Florence. Peruggia served six months in prison for the crime . Decker published this account of theft in 1932.

James : Ya, but one thing is clear that everyone loves Mona Lisa . Someone who loves her as a lover or someone loves her for money.

Anna : Wow darling , it’s a cool information about worlds most loveable painting.

Mike : Ya its true. But I want to spend my evening not with painting but with my real life Monalisa.

Mike and Robin kissed each other. And four of them enjoying there beautiful London evening  in eating and chitchat.

 

 

 

 

MUMMY FROM ANCIENT WORLD - LONDON CAFE

MIKE IS WAITING FOR ROBIN NEAR TRUFFLEGAR  SQUARE. THEY WANT TO REACH AT CAFE NEAR ABOUT 7 P.M. BECAUSE JAMES AND AANA WAITING FRO THEM AT CAFE.

ROBIN: HI SWEETHEART, LETS GO WE ARE ALREADY LATE. THERE IS ONE NEWS ABOUT MUMMY AND THEREFORE I AM LATE. SORRY DEAR. ( AND THE KISS EACH OTHER)

MIKE: ABOUT MUMMY! WOW! WHAT'S THAT DEAR? IS MUMMY ALIVE AND RUNNING ON LONDON STREET?

ROBIN : NO DEAR, THATS NOT THE CASE. I TELL YOU BUT FIRST WE WANT TO REACH AT CAFE RIGHT?

MIKE : YES DEAR ! LETS GO.

(THEY REACH AT CAFE)

JAMES : HI! WE ARE WAITING FOR YOU. WHY R U LATE? IS THEIR ANY NEWS ROBIN?

ROBIN : YA ITS FROM ANCIENT TIME NEARLY 5300 YEARS AGO.

ANNA : ROBIN IS IT FROM ANY HISTORY?

A LITTLE MAYOR OF SMALL TOWN (LONDON CAFE)

Mike,James and Anna sit at cafe and enjoying hot coffee there is a snowfall outside. Three are egarously waiting for Robin.

MIKE :This is ossum hot coffee I ever enjoyed . What u think James  

JAMES: Ya u r right. But where is Robin. She still not came and there is heavy snowfall also. I think she is going to take interview of snow.Belive me its a shivering interview.(They laugh on that at the same time Robin enter in cafe).

ROBIN: Helo everybody. I am going to cover one news and heavy snowfall started so I am late sorry dear

MIKE: Its ok sweetheart but what is that news.

ROBIN; YA , this news is from NEW YORK. I am taking interview through net (AOL) and the news is that "US town Minnesota has a 4 year old Mayor"

JAMES; What  How it is possible. He is just 4 year old.This is the age of going to school. How he became a mayour.

Robin ; Ya its true dear.Robert Tufts was selected as a mayour.Minnesota is very small town population around 22 people.

MIKE : Is it town or village

Robin ; Ya its a town village.He is just 4 yr old but people in town says he is a ball of fire.

 

JAMES: Robin but tell me what u think is it correct to be a mayor at just the age of 4

ROBIN ; Ya why not. whats the problem our constitution permit this.

JAMES: Ya ist ok but how he can rule the village he is just 4 yr old. This is not the classroom that anyone can become a monitor.

MIKE: I read the paper online. Schmidt says " He is right in your face and wel spoken. You 

cant imagine what a ball of fire he is "

ROBIN: Ya its true.

MIKE:Well the lets see what happen in Minnesota it may be possible that this 4 yr old boy made some miracle.

              Lets enjoy hot coffee sweetheart. Mike kissed Robin and all they enjoy the coffee and chitchat.

vampire

A vampire is a mythical creature who overcomes death by sucking the blood from living humans. The most common variation of the myth portrays the vampire as a dead person who rises from the grave at night to seek his victim from the realm of the sleeping. The vampire is a popular theme of film makers who have started with Bram Stokers's novel (Dracula) and added a number of variations to the theme, e.g., the ability to fly (like the vampire bat); a lust for beautiful women as victims who then become vampires upon being bitten; fear of the symbol of the Christian cross; the repelling power of garlic or garlic flowers; and death by sunlight or by a special stake driven through the heart, a fitting death for a character commonly believed to be based on the 15th century warrior, Vlad the Impaler. However, according to Elizabeth Miller, author of Dracula: Sense & Nonsense (Desert Island Books, 2000), Bram Stoker did not base his vampire Count on Vlad the Impaler. He borrowed Vlad's nickname (Dracula) for a vampire character he had already conceived (and tentatively named Count Wampyr).

Legends of bloodsucking creatures are found in many cultures throughout history. One of the more popular bloodsuckers of our age is the chupacabra. The vampire is also a popular literary subject. Hence, there are numerous descriptions of the origin, nature, powers, etc. of vampires. What seems to be universal about vampire myths is their connection with the fear of death and the desire for immortality. The ritual drinking of blood to overcome death has been practiced by many peoples. The Aztecs and other Native Americans, for example, ate the hearts and drank the blood of captives in ritual ceremonies, most likely to satisfy the appetite of their gods and gain for themselves fertility and immortality. Also typical were the rites of Dionysus and Mithra, where the drinking of animal blood was required in the quest for immortality. Even today, some Christians believe that their priests perform a magicaltransubstantiation of bread and wine into the body and blood of Jesus to be eaten and drunk in the quest to join God in eternal life.

We might say we've made progress in our ritualistic quest to overcome death. First, we sacrificed humans and drank their blood to keep the gods alive and happy, or to join them in overcoming death. We later came to substitute bulls or other animals for humans to achieve our goal. Finally, we progressed to a vegetarian menu of bread and wine. Even so, the basic truth is depressing: for anything to live, something or someone else must die. Whether this truth sets you free or not depends, I suppose, on your place at or on the dinner table. Since we are deep into metaphors, we may as well note here that the vampire has become a metaphor for those who define and create themselves by destroying others. People whose lives center on destroying other people's lives by disempowering them, who reduce their victims to dependent subjects to be lorded over, have been called spiritual vampires. Some of the therapists, ministers and gurus I've written about elsewhere in the Dictionary could be called spiritual vampires, very aptly.

This cultural link between vampirism and the quest for immortality seems to have been subordinated in literature and film, where other themes, such as blood for blood's sake, fear for fear's sake, or entrance into the realm of the occult, seem to dominate. One sign of the cultural deterioration of our ancestor's noble quest for immortality can be seen in the modern secondary meaning of 'vampire': a woman who exploits and ruins her lover. Another example of deterioration can be seen in the numerous WWW sites on vampires which appeal to occult or New Age interests such as entering the so-called dark side of reality, gaining power, establishing a unique identity as a special person or selling commercial products and games.

Apparently, role playing and masquerading as vampires is not enough to satisfy the bloodlust of some people, and covens or cults of "vampires" have emerged among some occultists. They seek blood to give them power, a sexual rush, or to establish a unique and special fictional persona based on creating fear and mystery in others. Unlike our ancient ancestors, their power is not sought because of fear based on ignorance and misunderstanding of nature, but on ignorance and misunderstanding of themselves. Like other occult cults these vampire covens are attractive to the young and the weak.^* Just a few years ago, such "vampyres" would have been considered ill or evil. Today, they are said to have an "alternative lifestyle." Some may be misfits who really believe they can draw energy from each other, and who feel a sense of superiority over those who aren't part of their inner group.

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^* "5 vampire cultists nabbed in killings," reads the headline of a story in the Sacramento Bee (November 29, 1996, p. A28). The five are all teenagers from a self-described "Vampire Clan" in Kentucky. They're wanted for the murders of Richard and Naomi Wendorf of Eustis, Florida. The 15-year-old daughter of the victims is one of the suspects, along with her boyfriend who was described by schoolmates as having boasted of immortality as a vampire.