Discovering to take pleasure in a decorative wall clock is element of the perks of possessing or collecting antique wall clocks. Owning a clock just for the sake of understanding the time is totally various than owning one particular for its ornamental benefit. Clocks are not just applications for pinpointing the time of working day, they are additional than that. An antique grandfather clock, for example, can add life and class to your living room, assuming of system that you can respect its essence and ornamental benefit.

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Edgar Allan Poe’s Gothic tale “Ligeia” is a study of the supernatural and of feminine beauty. In exploring Ligeia’s physical beauty, Poe quotes Elizabethan politician and scholar Francis Bacon: “There’s no exquisite beauty,” says Bacon, Lord Verulam, speaking truly of all the forms and genera of beauty “without some strangeness in the proportion.”

In James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, we find that Stephen Dedalus’ translated Aquinas model of beauty using the following words: wholeness, balance, and radiance. ‘Balance’ is often translated as ‘proportion’ by others. So, if something is lacking in any of the above three elements, then the beauty observed will be flawed.

In Ligeia, Poe’s neurotic and unreliable narrator is determined to find out that ‘strangeness’ that was so unnerving to him: “I was possessed with a passion to discover.” After examining in great detail Ligeia’s hair, skin, nose, lips, teeth, smile, chin, and eyes, he concludes that her eyes carry the unmistakable light of strangeness: “They were, I must believe, far larger than the ordinary eyes of our own race. They were fuller than the fullest of the gazelle eyes…” And in the end it is the eyes that convinces him that the revivified corpse is Ligeia and not Lady Rowena Trevanion of Tremaine.

As part of his study of the glittering Russian aristocracy, in Ana Karenina, Leon Tolstoy explored Ana’s physical beauty: face, arms, neck, hair, feet, hands, and even her dress and accessories:

“Some supernatural force drew Kitty’s eyes …