George Herbert: The Pulley (Pandora's Box)

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Marilyn Monroe on crutches, while recuperating from an ankle injury during the filming of The River of No Return, Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel, Banff, Alberta: photo by John Vachon, 27 August 1953, from Look magazine photographic collection, Library of Congress; image by marilyn-monroe2011, 22 January 2012

 ............When God at first made man,

Having a glasse of blessings standing by;

Let us (said he) poure on him all we can:

Let the worlds riches, which dispersed lie,

                Contract into a span.



                So strength first made a way;

Then beautie flow'd, then wisdome, honour, pleasure:

When almost all was out, God made a stay,

Perceiving that alone of all his treasure

                Rest in the bottome lay.



                For if I should (said he)

Bestow this jewell also on my creature,

He would adore my gifts in stead of me,

And rest in Nature, not the God of Nature:

                So both should losers be.



                Yet let him keep the rest,

But keep them with repining restlessnesse:

Let him be rich and wearie, that at least,

If goodnesse leade him not, yet wearinesse

                May tosse him to my breast.



George Herbert (1593-1633): The Pulley, from The Temple (1633) 

Marilyn Monroe, with bandaged ankle, waves to the camera from an open, one-seat chairlift, suspended high over an evergreen-covered valley in the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta: photo by John Vachon, 27 August 1953, from Look magazine photographic collection, Library of Congress; image by rachel ⚡, 15 October 2010

Marilyn Monroe with Joe Dimaggio, Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel, Banff, Alberta: photo by John Vachon, 27 August 1953, from Look magazine photographic collection, Library of Congress; image by rachel ⚡, 15 October 2010

Orientalizing pithos: found in Arcades (?), Crete, ca. 675 BC., terracotta, stamped and incised decoration, height 1.56 m, diameter 87 cm.; image by Jastrow, 2005 (Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Musée du Louvre, Paris)