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Published: 2013-08-10 12:00:03 +0000 UTC; Views: 23623; Favourites: 1102; Downloads: 0
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Description “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” — Jorge Luis Borges

(My love for Borges is borderline otherworldly.)

While life certainly offers us a great deal of pleasures for us to choose from, I am yet to find one that can compare to reading a good book. It should come as no surprise, therefore, that this piece is one of my personal favorites, if nothing else than for the message it conveys. (And as I could not actually read whilst working on it, and as the execution took considerably longer than I had anticipated, I satisfied myself with listening to an audio book while working on it. The memories it is now inextricably linked with are all the more precious accordingly.)
Dedicated to all the avid readers of the world, who I feel - in sharing in one of my greatest passions - have also an understanding of a very vital part of myself.
A special dedication must be added for three of my best friends, whose birthday presents I was belatedly shopping for, and the nature of which they should have no trouble guessing, given the theme of the piece through which the hint is passed on.
I dream of the libraries of Pemberley still.

(On the more technical side, I am finally working with a tablet, and it makes my work so, so much easlier and more effortless than the alternative.)

Whether this piece is more conceptual or more surreal, I really cannot tell.

"I cannot think it unlikely that there is such a total book on some shelf in the universe. I pray to the unknown gods that some man - even a single man, tens of centuries ago - has perused and read this book. If the honor and wisdom and joy of such a reading are not to be my own, then let them be for others. Let heaven exist, though my own place may be in hell. Let me be tortured and battered and annihilated, but let there be one instant, one creature, wherein thy enormous Library may find its justification." — Jorge Luis Borges, "The Library of Babel" (1941)

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Comments: 135

nikkidoodlesx3 [2013-08-15 17:19:01 +0000 UTC]

You've been featured here:  RFF + Thomas Kinkade Inspired Manip?  

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Elluna In reply to nikkidoodlesx3 [2013-08-17 16:14:09 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much, I'm honored.

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TaniaART In reply to ??? [2013-08-14 12:26:55 +0000 UTC]

Amazing work  

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Elluna In reply to TaniaART [2013-08-17 16:13:38 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much.

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TaniaART In reply to Elluna [2013-08-18 19:22:52 +0000 UTC]

 

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shiny-shadows-Art [2013-08-12 19:27:49 +0000 UTC]

Amazing and awesome 

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Elluna In reply to shiny-shadows-Art [2013-08-17 16:14:48 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much, dear.

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Lub-Ad In reply to ??? [2013-08-12 15:37:40 +0000 UTC]

Wonderful !!

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Elluna In reply to Lub-Ad [2013-08-17 16:14:38 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much.

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Elandria In reply to ??? [2013-08-12 09:40:53 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for using my stock!

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Elluna In reply to Elandria [2013-08-17 16:14:26 +0000 UTC]

And thank you for providing it, dearest.

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Elandria In reply to Elluna [2013-08-17 16:31:03 +0000 UTC]

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Kallaria In reply to ??? [2013-08-11 15:05:47 +0000 UTC]

amazing !

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Elluna In reply to Kallaria [2013-08-17 16:13:12 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much.

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Wesley-Souza In reply to ??? [2013-08-11 04:25:40 +0000 UTC]

O-M-G very very magic work and beautiful
beautiful color and Lighting

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Elluna In reply to Wesley-Souza [2013-08-17 16:13:04 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much, dearest.

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Wesley-Souza In reply to Elluna [2013-08-17 23:53:46 +0000 UTC]

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Light-Howl In reply to ??? [2013-08-10 22:44:06 +0000 UTC]

B-E-A-utiful! <3 Love it, my dear and I love you <3

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Elluna In reply to Light-Howl [2013-08-17 16:12:52 +0000 UTC]

And I you.

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Annaliese-Shelly [2013-08-10 16:02:09 +0000 UTC]

Its beautiful!! 

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Elluna In reply to Annaliese-Shelly [2013-08-10 16:50:27 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much.

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Flobelebelebobele In reply to ??? [2013-08-10 15:05:00 +0000 UTC]

Divan rad

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Elluna In reply to Flobelebelebobele [2013-08-10 15:19:14 +0000 UTC]

Mnogo hvala.

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Belthazor1 In reply to ??? [2013-08-10 14:16:14 +0000 UTC]

Beautiful piece. Love the fact that the girl is in focus and that the library itself is a bit blurred. Well done.

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Elluna In reply to Belthazor1 [2013-08-10 14:22:10 +0000 UTC]

Danke schön!

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Belthazor1 In reply to Elluna [2013-08-10 14:23:41 +0000 UTC]

Bitte schön!

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Nebelelfe-Art In reply to ??? [2013-08-10 13:42:45 +0000 UTC]

Great Very wonderful work as always, dear

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Elluna In reply to Nebelelfe-Art [2013-08-10 13:43:22 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much, dearest. You're always too kind for words.

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Nebelelfe-Art In reply to Elluna [2013-08-10 14:14:15 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome, dear

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Jezzy-Art In reply to ??? [2013-08-10 13:32:28 +0000 UTC]

I love this!!! Nicely done!!

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Elluna In reply to Jezzy-Art [2013-08-10 13:42:38 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much, dear.

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J-u-d-a-s In reply to ??? [2013-08-10 12:00:46 +0000 UTC]

Very beautiful work dear  

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Elluna In reply to J-u-d-a-s [2013-08-10 12:44:58 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much, dear.

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J-u-d-a-s In reply to Elluna [2013-08-10 13:36:13 +0000 UTC]

 

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