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' After me, the flood ') is a French expression attributed to King Louis XV of France, or in the form "Après nous, le déluge" (pronounced [apʁɛ nu lə delyʒ]; lit. ' After us, the flood ') to Madame de Pompadour, his favourite. [1] [2] It is generally regarded as a nihilistic expression of indifference to whatever happens after one is gone.
After the Flood (disambiguation) Après le Déluge; Après moi, le déluge; Before the Deluge; Deluge (disambiguation) Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) – The Morning after the Deluge – Moses Writing the Book of Genesis, a painting by J. M. W. Turner; The Subsiding of the Waters of the Deluge, a painting by Thomas Cole
Turner's paired piece titled Shade and Darkness – The Evening of the Deluge was also exhibited in 1843. In this piece as well as The Morning After the Deluge, Turner makes no attempt to mirror the scene of the flood in its naturality. [3] Fallacies of Hope is a poem that Turner supposedly wrote to parallel the two paintings. [5]
Because the poems of Illuminations are so diverse and self-contained, they cover a wide range of themes. One theme evident throughout the text is protest. This theme permeates the first poem, "Après Le Deluge", and continues throughout many of the poems in the work.
After the Los Angeles Aqueduct opened the water taps a quarter-century before, the L.A. River looked like something worse than obsolete — it looked like a killer, of life, of land, of livelihood.
The Epic of Gilgamesh (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ l ɡ ə m ɛ ʃ /) [2] is an epic from ancient Mesopotamia.The literary history of Gilgamesh begins with five Sumerian poems about Gilgamesh (formerly read as Sumerian "Bilgames" [3]), king of Uruk, some of which may date back to the Third Dynasty of Ur (c. 2100 BCE). [1]
After the Deluge, also known as The Forty-First Day, [1] is a Symbolist oil painting by English artist George Frederic Watts, first exhibited as The Sun in an incomplete form in 1886, and completed in 1891. It shows a scene from the story of Noah's Flood, in which after 40 days of rain Noah opens the window of his Ark to see that the rain has ...
Young adults in Reno, Nev. are buying fewer homes compared to the rest of the nation, according to an analysis of home purchase loans. Residents younger than 25 in the Reno metro area accounted ...