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My name is Marina Spitkovskaya, and I am a recent graduate of Lafayette High School in Williamsburg, Virginia. I will be a Freshman at Yale next year, and a member of Silliman College. This page will tell you more about me and my interests, which include art, music, and lots more! Visit my online gallery of artwork by Salvador Dali, a great Surrealist artist. Learn about the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Read the mystical ballad The Lady of Shalott, by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Learn about the issue of Independence for Tibet and how you can help!

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"Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am the hallucinogenic." -Salvador Dali

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The Pre-Raphaelite Vision.

By Alfred Lord Tennyson

There she weaves by night and day
A magic web with colours gay.
She has heard a whisper say,
A curse is on her if she stay
To look down to Camelot.
She knows not what the curse may be,
And so she weaveth steadily,
And little other care hath she,
The Lady of Shalott.

And moving thro' a mirror clear
That hangs before her all the year,
Shadows of the world appear.
There she sees the highway near
Winding down to Camelot:
There the river eddy whirls,
And there the surly village-churls,
And the red cloaks of market girls,
Pass onward from Shalott.

Sometimes a troop of damsels glad,
An abbot on an ambling pad,
Sometimes a curly shepherd-lad,
Or long-hair'd page in crimson clad,
Goes by to tower'd Camelot;
And sometimes thro' the mirror blue
The knights come riding two and two:
She hath no loyal knight and true,
The Lady of Shalott.

But in her web she still delights
To weave the mirror's magic sights,
For often thro' the silent nights
A funeral, with plumes and lights
And music, went to Camelot:
Or when the moon was overhead,
Came two young lovers lately wed:
"I am half sick of shadows," said
The Lady of Shalott.

Entire ballad can be found at Nir Nan Og, The Land of the Young.

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Pre-Raphaelite Art The Pre-Raphaelites, led by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, were a group of rebellious artists who were disillusioned with the artistic climate of the 19th century.  They created an entirely new artistic style that drew upon the middle ages, classical mythology, nature, and poetry for inspiration, emulating the work of the great Italian artists before Raphael. A Sea Spell Painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1877

Visit WebMagick's Pre-Raphaelite Collection of art and poetry to learn more about the movement.

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The people of Tibet continue to suffer under China's oppression. It is crucial that the culture and independence
of this peaceful nation is preserved. The future of Tibet is in our hands!

To learn more, visit the Milerpa Fund, the International Campaign for Tibet, and Students for a Free Tibet.



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