Rodin

                                                     I have  two mini-"The Thinker" sculptures that double as book ends .   I LOVE THEM !!!  At first glance they are seen as heavily muscled, as if The Thinker was a Body Builder, which is fucking ADORABLE since it is probably his Mind, that was trained or under Training .   You'd think that Rodin, the Artist, made CERTAIN to depict the Thinker, also known as The POET, as a pencil-necked GEEK, since the Thinker was devoted to THOUGHT--- but no and FUCK NO,  The Thinker is  Man of HEAVY LABOR, his Body the Result of INTENSE EFFORT .   He was NOT 'locked away' in some Library or classroom, a someone who assiduously AVOIDED manual labor,  nope--this Cat involved his Mind and Body in the Real, PHYSICAL World .   

                          I will believe what I have speculated :  that Rodin "caught" this Man at a work site or in his gymnasium where he was working or working out, and that a "Thought" "arrived" that was so EXTRA-ORDINARY that he just HAD-TA stop what he was doing in order to THINK about its Quality .   I've been there and done that, it's worse for me, since I take the time to actually scrawl-out the Thought, that I may re-view it later and subject it to clinical analysis .   I am of the Belief that Cosmic Messages are held within such Thoughts and that they are a Form of Universal Secret ---  I know this is a "Mystical Bent" but that's who I am .  I mean, Who among us does NOT want to have Secrets revealed, ESPECIALLY when they are of a COSMIC Nature ?????   I know I do, perhaps we all should as well .