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Robert Scott Martin wrote:

> Wisdom & Technic of ye Ancients
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> M. JL Esq. wrote:
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>> "Some scholars" see many things including cabalistic
>> symbolism http://tinyurl.com/5tuq4u4
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> "It is the trouble with such connections that they are more easily made than undone. Associations are like gossamer threads; however light they may be, they tend to cling. Perhaps the injunction -- 'Only connect' -- is misleading. We want the switchboard operator to make only the right connections. It will be remembered that Shearman triumphantly did so in his earlier comments on the very subject of Mary's mourning over the dead Christ. Is it not a pity that he has here obtruded such erudite irrelevancies into our experience of one of Michelangelo's most moving images? We writers on art may carry a greater burden of responsibility in such matters than is sometimes realized."
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> http://www.gombrich.co.uk/showrev.php?id=19


Thanks for that. But it seemed a long way to go for very little.

THough im not sure how you relate Mary mourning over the dead Christ and the Doni Tondo.

http://www.gnostic.org/ihsm/rosary/images_lrg/02_glori_ascen_dali.jpg

"The probability for an event that can happen in two indistinguishable ways is the sum of the probability for each way considered separately."

The forming of any opinion is ultimately a 50/50 chance or random event.
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JL