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From:         David Linder <[e-mail]>
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Subject:      Deadly Sins
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That quote about adultery reminds me of a passage in Anthony
Powell's "The Kindly Ones" wherein the members of a dinner party
amuse themselves by staging seven "photographic stills" to
represent the cardinal sins: lust, pride (hubris), greed
(avarice), envy, anger (wrath), gluttony, and sloth.
Inspiration for the idea came from the sins as depicted on the
dining hall's tapestries.  I thought this a clever mechanism
for in a later volume in the series great nostalgia was evoked
through rediscovery of the proofs, allowing the narrator to thus
recall both his young adulthood and certain characteristcs of
his contemporaries.
Having done duty to the "literary" quota, I'm wondering if anyone
knows an artist who did drawings of the Sins and the Virtues, in
the style of Durer.  Perhaps it was he?
I also wonder: when I can't remember certain of the sins, does
that indicate familiarity with those successfully named, or
repression of those not?

David Linder                             Applied Mathematics
                                         U. of Western Ontario
                                         London, ON, Canada