Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Claude Monet Monet Spring Flowers painting

Claude Monet Monet Spring Flowers paintingClaude Monet Springtime At Giverny paintingClaude Monet Poplars on the Epte paintingBerthe Morisot Behind the Blinds painting
people knew, but Fric knew. He liked knowing things that other people didn’t. Odd bits of history. Secrets. The mysteries of alchemy. Scientific curiosities.Like how to power an electric clock with a potato. You needed a copper peg, a zinc nail, and of the Grand Architect of the Universe.[95] Like who built the first elevator. Using alternatively human, animal, and water power, Roman architect Vitruvius constructed the first elevators circa 50 B.C.Fric knew.A lot of the weird, stuff he knew didn’t have much application didn’t alter the fact that he was short for his age, and thin for his age, or that he had a geeky neck and the huge unreal green eyes that magazine writers slobbered about when describing his mother but that made him look like a cross between a hoot owl and an alien. He liked knowing these weird things anyway, even if they did not lift him out of the mire of Fricdom.some wire. A potato-powered clock looked stupid, but it worked.Like the truncated pyramid on the back of the one-dollar bill. It represents the unfinished Temple of Solomon. The eye floating above the pyramid is symbolic

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