Thomas Moran Sunset on the Moor painting

Thomas Moran Sunset on the Moor paintingThomas Moran Moonlit Seascape paintingThomas Moran Cresheim Glen, Wissahickon, Autumn painting
sum, Baal had arrived at godlessness. He began, stumblingly, to move beyond the idea of gods and leaders and rules, and to perceive that his story was so mixed up with Mahound's that some great resolution was necessary. That this resolution would in all probability mean his death neither shocked nor bothered him overmuch; and when Musa the grocer grumbled one day about the twelve wives" of the Prophet, _one rule for him, another for us_, Baal understood the form his final confrontation with Submission would have to take.
The girls of The Curtain -- it was only by convention that they were referred to as "girls", as the eldest was a woman well into her fifties, while the youngest, at fifteen, was more experienced than many fifty-year-olds -- had grown fond of this shambling Baal, and in point of fact they enjoyed having a eunuch-whowasn't, so that out of working hours they would tease him deliciously, flaunting their bodies before him, placing their breasts against