01-02-2016, 10:57 PM
Dear Diane,
You were looking at traditions. I was looking at images. I found a merperson that is posed in the same pose as three of the images in the VMS. This is the only other such image I have been able to find.
Show me how your tradition beats a real image, please. Or why the coincidence of a mermaid shown with one leg lifted and the meamaid tail is shown to be a costume and which is partly removed or loosened is such a likely thing to have occurred. Occam's Razor type logic says otherwise.
I don't give a hoot what tradition says - this is a real image we are talking about, not some tradition, expectation, dream, hope, hoodoo, voodoo or will-o'-the-wisp wish of yours.
Show me an image that is closer to the VMS ones, if you can. Please don't don't preach vaguely about a tradition without some kind of convincing evidence...like a manuscript image.
I found (a European) one. Show me yours, please.
I think the artist of the VMS images looked at images from somewhere for his inspirations for the images in the VMS more than he reflected on some tradition which seems to have no comparable image(s).
Too realistic and rooted in possible evidence, huh? Not enough history and tradition?
Sorry.
Thank you.
Don of Tallahassee.
You were looking at traditions. I was looking at images. I found a merperson that is posed in the same pose as three of the images in the VMS. This is the only other such image I have been able to find.
Show me how your tradition beats a real image, please. Or why the coincidence of a mermaid shown with one leg lifted and the meamaid tail is shown to be a costume and which is partly removed or loosened is such a likely thing to have occurred. Occam's Razor type logic says otherwise.
I don't give a hoot what tradition says - this is a real image we are talking about, not some tradition, expectation, dream, hope, hoodoo, voodoo or will-o'-the-wisp wish of yours.
Show me an image that is closer to the VMS ones, if you can. Please don't don't preach vaguely about a tradition without some kind of convincing evidence...like a manuscript image.
I found (a European) one. Show me yours, please.
I think the artist of the VMS images looked at images from somewhere for his inspirations for the images in the VMS more than he reflected on some tradition which seems to have no comparable image(s).
Too realistic and rooted in possible evidence, huh? Not enough history and tradition?
Sorry.
Thank you.
Don of Tallahassee.