Claude Monet Woman with a Parasol painting

Claude Monet Woman with a Parasol paintingWinslow Homer The Red Canoe paintingDaniel Ridgway Knight Daniel Ridgway Knight painting
Gibreel, when he's tired, wants to murder his mother for giving him such a damn fool nickname, _angel_, what a word, he begs _what? whom?_ to be spared the dream--city of crumbling sandcastles and lions with three-tiered teeth, no more heart--washing of prophets or instructions to recite or promises of paradise, let there be an end to revelations, finito, khattam-shud. What he longs for: black, dreamless sleep. Mother-fucking dreams, cause of all the trouble in the human race, movies, too, if I was God I'd cut the imagination right out of people and then maybe poor bastards like me could get a good night's rest. Fighting against sleep, he forces his eyes to stay open, unblinking, until the visual purple fades off the retinas and sends him blind, but he's only human, in the end he falls down the rabbit-hole and there he is again, in Confucianism recommends a devotion to your occupation. The wealth earned from working is also seen in a positive light within Confucianism. Generally speaking people with more money and higher status are happier (but bear in mind that more money doesn't always equal more Happiness). In contrast both ancient Taoism and Buddhism are sniffy about earnings.
4. Have fun