I really admire someone who single-handedly does something so extraordinarily ambitious and requiring such incredible persistence, especially when "experts" tell him he can't do it. I'd say those young fellers were a *healthy* interest of his, not an unhealthy one. Would it have been healthy for him to be a sexless zombie or a eunuch? According to moralists, I guess - but they answer to those descriptions themselves. Too bad his "gallant knights" didn't bother to provide him with some decent protection. (The subject of this painting is not me.) |