chiaroscuro Bill Oooh, what a rich, alluring word. Claire-obscure, the technique of using light and shade in pictorial representation. 991203 ... Brad Lovely italian word... I learned it from my high school art teacher. So much fun to say. 000309 ... lotusflower masters caravaggio rembrant 000325 ... oldephebe a mixing of shadows amidst the dance of light a delicate balance mesmerizing the tension of the two beguilingly pradoxical the two dichotomous mingling ... did someone stumble upon it nature's pallete probably elegant mingling of antipodes once one captures it he/she leaps into greatness great word ... 030716 ... ferret chichi mushu basso 030716 ... megan ballerinas amidst thorn 030716 ... oldephebe see - that's the kind of lyrical and yet abstract imagery still steeped in the literal that sometimes eludes me that is a poignant and elegant encapsulation megan 030716 ... nomme was on the verge of sleep the other night when this word popped into my head and started bouncing around. 030717 ... pipedream beautiful word, reminds me of my sister- she's the one who introduced me to it... chiaroscuro...sounds like magic, the way light reflected off water looks when it plays on a surface. 030718 ... DannyH Will Self once said that life is made up of a chiaroscuro of things that are jokes and things that are not jokes. 030718 ... brain food everything is a bloody joke in one way or another... we can only laugh at past mistakes... if we dwell and be sad forever.. pain only makes more pain... which makes more pain and passes to the next person only as pain... revenge and all the dark stuff from the dark side.. where we don't belong anymore. and it's better be in the present anyway because there is all kinds of colours, sounds and tastes. laughing is the best medicine.. it's brain food. 070426 ... ! charlie ! - don't snort your happiness ! 070426 ... z (the arbiter of the aesthetic truth) oe used to use this word quite a bit. 070426 what's it to you? who go blather from