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To see these two former legislative colossi bury their ideological differences and come together on behalf of American underpants is either inspiring or grotesque, depending on your perspective.
Back in the 1950s, twin colossi sat astride the Hudson, figuratively glowering at each other: Betty Friedan in Grandview on the West Bank, writing The Feminine Mystique , and John Cheever in Scarborough on the East Bank, writing the Wapshot books and the short stories.
These are the Colossi of Memnon, statues of Pharaoh Amenophis III that once guarded the entrance to his temple, which has now completely disappeared.
The four monumental colossi of Ramses II that frame the entrance stand 20 m (65 ft) high and they are aligned to face the rising sun, to be infused with the energy of the sun god each day.
Reliefs carved on Ramses’ thrones depict the Nile gods, and in a niche between the two central colossi is a small statue to the god Ra-Herekhty (Ra the sun god combined with Horus) with whom Ramses shares the temple.
She, too, is deified and in a façade of six colossi 111/2 m (38 ft) high stands at equal height to her husband - a very rare honor for a consort in Egypt - though his statues outnumber hers by 2:1, a more subtle indication of his supreme power.
Usurtasen grew to be a giant more than seven feet high, who conquered, not only all Ethiopia, but also Europe and Asia, his columns were said to be found in Palestine, Asia Minor, Scythia, and Thrace, he left a colony at Colchis, the city of the golden fleece, he dug all the canals by which Egypt was intersected, he invented geometry, he set up colossi above fifty feet high, he was the greatest monarch that had ruled Egypt since the days of Osiris! No doubt these tales were, in the main, imaginary, but they marked the fact that in Usurtasen III.
The design of erecting two such colossi must be attributed to the monarch himself, and we must estimate, from the magnificence of the design, the grandeur of his thoughts and the wonderful depth of his artistic imagination, but the skill to execute, the genius to express in stone such dignity, majesty, and repose as the statues possess, belongs to the first-rate sculptor, who turned the rough blocks of stone, hewn by the masons in a distant quarry, into the glorious statues that have looked down upon the plain for so many ages.
They understood also better than any other nation, how to use sculpture In combination with architecture, and to make their colossi and avenues of sphinxes group themselves into parts of one great design, and at the same time to use historical paintings, fading by insensible degrees into hieroglyphics on the one hand, and into sculpture on the other, linking the whole together with the highest class of phonetic utterance.
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And this was the little world in which I had been living securely for years, this fiery chaos! What had happened in the last seven hours I still did not know; nor did I know, though I was beginning to guess, the relation between these mechanical colossi and the sluggish lumps I had seen disgorged from the cylinder.
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