glyptothek

I was curious to see what a particular sculpture in the Glyptothek would look like if tried adding eyes to it in photoshop.

I thought the results made him look cross-eyed. Or sad. Or sad, and cross-eyed. (?)

Then I looked again at the original photo, without the photoshopped eyes, and it looked cross-eyed too.

I don't know who is represented in this bust. I'm pretty sure it's some Roman guy we've all heard of.
* * * Added later: From "Uses of Great Men" (Emerson, but gone to Whitman):

[...] The people cannot see him enough. They delight in a man. Here is a head and a trunk! What a front! what eyes! Atlantean shoulders, and the whole carriage heroic, with equal force to guide the great machine! This pleasure of full expression to that which, in their private experience, is usually cramped and obstructed, runs, also, much higher, and is the secret of the reader's joy in literary genius.

How to pronounce "Fuldu"

Scott Purdy:

I chose my nom through an excruciating process of going through things that I felt sounded neat. I had tried a name & wordplay nom at the con, and found it was too difficult to explain and not much fun to respond to. Since I've always been a bit of a fool, I wanted to use that in my nom. However, since we already had a Joker, I wanted to distinguish myself in some way. Fuldu is just a phoneticization of the way that I say "Fooled You," an appropriate response to those who pronounce it "Full Dew."