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Sorry And here's your smoke du jour brought to you

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by the maids of mount olympus Nobody cleans up a

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god awful mess Better okay let's skim the following passage

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Familiar Have only read this like eighty times before on

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human labor and blab above the four armed kannon lines

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But uh francis source And we're done so The title

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of this article is the sea stis of magnolia What

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significance does this title have to the reading And here

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are potential answers right now Love divine Very practical Well

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see stis is an armored club that was used in

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ancient battles in greek mythology Ag Leah was a goddess

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of beauty and adornment who was married to have festus

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the god of metallurgy and weaponry So by now we're

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pretty comfortable with this passage and we have a fairly

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decent idea of what the others talking about You know

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the author doesn't talk about religion or its inspiration on

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art and he never comments on well made gloves artistic

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or otherwise That means we cannot got answers danny in

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the first round now let's break down the title itself

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The sea stis of ag julia First we know that

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paglia is the greek goddess of beauty and adornment We

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also know that her husband the greek god of armor

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and weaponry sounds like just the kind of guy who

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would be in the ceaseless business Fine art is often

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admired for its beauty and its ability to liven up

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its surroundings so often Author wanted something or someone to

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symbolize the fine arts in a title for his article

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Actually it makes a pretty logical choice Meanwhile a cease

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this is made out of metal and has a more

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pressure awful purpose than simply providing beauty Sounds like a

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perfect representation of the mechanical arts tow us So why

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would agli ever need a cease this of her own

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The image of a fair goddess of beauty wearing a

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metal glove made for war would probably raising a few

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eyebrows up on olympus but gains nothing but support from

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us mortals which is another way of saying that they

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are a dichotomy And since the author spends much of

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this passage highlighting the difference between the mechanical arts and

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the fine arts and it makes sense that his title

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would do the same thing symbolically that means that sea

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is our right answer Now would somebody buy those messy 00:02:20.743 --> [endTime] god's a roomba Yeah

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