MythTickle by Justin Thompson for August 31, 2022

Ow that’s cruel El Jefe! ;^)

At least she doesn’t have a leg to stand on……..

He puts the “pyg” in “Pygmalion”.

Heart of stone

I’m not a true grammar Nazi but that period after the title is rankles me somehow. Makes me feel as if it is there for a reason, and I can’t figure out why. Other than to give me the agida.

Pygmalion?

Yes. Pygmalion.

One of my favorites! Wonderful

Not even Venus could save this relationship after it got off to such a rocky start. And Venus is who brought Galatea to life for Pygmalion in the first place!

I never asked before: What does the art think of the artist, then I realized it’s the same as we think about “God.”

So, you are repulsed by your creator? Time to sculpt something else out of that marble slab.

Perhaps she’s disturbed to be almost naked in front of him. Perhaps the idea of her creator feeling that way about her seems incestuous.

Now she is trapped like that. No legs.

Pig Male Lion

It’s not always the creative slob who wins the fair woman. Life is not fair….

Pygmalion’s big problem is that Sculpting Marble is hard, dirty, sweaty work.

By the time he finished, he desperately needed a long, hot bath.

I think I fell in love with his creation, too!

I wonder how often works of beauty are created by people who are not themselves beautiful.