Lucian
Lucian
Lucian of Samosatawas a rhetorician and satirist who wrote in the Greek language during the Second Sophistic. He is noted for his witty and scoffing nature. Although he wrote solely in Greek, mainly Attic Greek, he was ethnically Assyrian. Lucian claimed to be a native speaker of a "barbarian tongue"which was most likely Syriac, a dialect of Aramaic...
ducks skins recipes
Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.
routine timetables
I have a timetable, but no routine.
flesh want doe
As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does
grateful eternity slaying
Be grateful. By slaying you now, I spare you an eternity of torment.
mercy enough
Death is a mercy, and I have enough mercy to go around.