Shakespeare and Michelangelo

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FORMATTED TEXT HERE-->Mighty Gossips faced chop-logic death. Free Speech advocate Shakespeare, outwitted censors by converting Leonardo's invention to the Shakespeare Code. Reincarnated artist models, actors and lawyers, solve dozens of riddles. (Illustrated)

O, but one word, ...one word, good friend, Say but the word, and I will be his priest. Leonardo invented the word, when he drew an eye. As A man in hue all hues in his controlling, he painted Mona Lisa with a smile, and An eye more bright ...guilding the object whereupon which it gazeth. Shakespeare noted Mona's eyes engaged the viewer's eyes and followed the viewer, but Mona Lisa's smile added to his purpose nothing. Our story tells why.

Michelangelo, also A man in hue all hues in his controlling, improved on Leonardo's inventionin the heavenly vault, and his sculpted work. Shakespeare acknowledged: They did bless me with one happy word, In a word, the seeming truth. This is as strange a maze as ever men trod.

Thrust yourself into this maze. Meet roarers, who have a vapor like a bear or a lion, who will show you the keys to the kingdom: the style of gods and A style for challengers. Meet the bawdy wind that kisses all it meets. See Michelangelo's paintings of a fowl without a feather, a fish without a fin, and sheep-whistling rogues, as Shakespeare saw them. Learn answers to riddles of the one happy word, Huge leviathans, hollow bone, leaping house, St. Gregory's well, wafer cakes, lady bird, Turk Gregory, Alexander the Pig, Peter What's thy name, an assinego, Caterpillars of the commonwealth, a viperous worm, a crafty devil, grace and a cod-piece, ridiculous smiling, a most arch heretic, and much more.

Hear from Mighty gossips in A host of tongues, good and ill tidings.We write them together. Meet gardeners of the ears, who tell why Many lusty Romans came smiling, and did bathe their hands in blood; and why the comet of revenge, the Welsh bear, chided the Roman bear: To teach by painting drunks does not last.

Meet arch-heretic Shakespeare: the art critic, editor, environmentalist, humanitarian, historian, lawyer, linguist, playwright, traveler, Universalist, who loved above all, the English people, the English language, free speech, and Truth. At the time, England had a literacy rate of less than 20 percent, but the people had an oral tradition of redefining everyday life with metaphor and in prose, poetry and song. In his plays, Shakespeare incorporated their ancient riddles and history, as he passed mighty gossip of current events, and all the knowledge of the seven arches, to those who come to hear a merry bawdy play. He changed the Leonardo Code to the Shakespeare Code to to find a thousand shifts to get away from the chop-logic law.