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Cobblestone TuesdaysWhen the hip hop
Meets the clip clop
Their noise turns to beat,
When shy eyes stop seeing
The heart struggles believing
And silence fills the street,
But when a passing stranger
Shows no sign of danger

It might just be a friend
You haven't let yourself meet
Casual LoversWhat was I thinking?
I can't quite remember,
Must have been the drinkin'
It's cold as December

She's taken the covers
While I was asleep
Damn these casual lovers
Away, I must creep

I don't know her name
If I did, I have forgot
But don't give me blame
I swear it was the shots

Why won't you go away
My God, is she snoring?
I didn't think she'd stay
How long till morning?
Can You Dig It?Orange street lights below
a muddy, blood-red sky

Night's passion pronounced
to close doors, days from now

Listen to the words
that don't come from my mouth

Hate the noise of my voice
love the voice in my head

I control the puppet master
and my strings are dirty from walking

Spin the revolving doors compulsively
people will stop, and notice

Beg for deliverance from the darkness
which seems to always fall this time of year

Pull the knife out of your loves
and nurse them back to health

Know who wants to love
and those who can only love friendly

Short roots can't bare the load
of the thimble floods that run this rout

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The Little Man From Corsicaby *JackRaz

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"The Little Man from Corsica: A Portrait of Napoleon"
Pen & Ink, Watercolor
2007

When most people think of French leaders & heroes, the two names that immediately come to mind are Joan of Arc and Napoleon Bonaparte. The amusing thing is, while this diminutive man was undoubtably a genius and came within a Russian-winter of quite possibly creating a French Empire which stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific, he was not French, could only reasonably speak the language, and even when he crowned himself Emperor of France, still actually considered himself at heart a Corsican.
©2009-2013 *JackRaz
Category: Traditional Art / Drawings / Illustration / Conceptual

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~RD-DD1843 Jul 16, 2012
Symbolically I love the diminutive genuis towering over his continent reduced to a map. He was remarkable, but too ambitious.
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*JackRaz Aug 8, 2012
Thanks man. I totally agree.
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~RD-DD1843 Jul 16, 2012
Brilliant man, even if he lost in 1814 and 1815. I love how he turned his imprisonment at St. Helena into a triumph.
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*JackRaz Aug 8, 2012
Can we really call it a triumph? Or was it just one of those last-hurrah retirement tours like a sports-superstar or The Stones, which goes on way way too long.
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~RD-DD1843 Aug 8, 2012
No retirement tour - he was stuck on St. Helena (unless France had overthrown the Bourbons, and sent warships to bring him back - but the French were finally exhausted after a quarter century (1792-1815) of fighting). But he figured out that the Allies overplayed their victory too quickly. His old Metternich might have become the central figure of power in Europe, but he was soon seeing revolutions in every nook and cranny (the murder of Kotzebue by Karl Sand becoming a sudden plot to turn the students into fiery revolutionaries?). Even the British went too far with Peterloo and the secret agent provocateurs of the Cato Street Plot. Napoleon simply wrote his testament (his memoirs) and "explained" what he wanted to do. After 1821 there were plenty who suddenly believed he was the man of the people (which he really wasn't).
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~TomBombardier Nov 9, 2011
There are some issues with Galicia being shown as French rather than Catalonia being annexed. That and I believe that Lucca, between the two French parts of the Italian peninsula, was independent. A wonderful map, of course.
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~Yukiko-berrie Apr 28, 2011
amazing in every-way!! I love the shading on his face.
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*JackRaz Jun 9, 2011
Thank you very much! This is one of my all-time favorite works of mine, so it means a lot that you like it too. :)
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~Yukiko-berrie Jun 9, 2011
You're welcome, :D
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Mood: Love ~Tiisiphone Aug 28, 2010
He had a vision, no doubt about it. But as it often happens, it id Hubris that defeated him...
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