attracts millions of moths.
(This was not a quip by Wilde about Holman Hunt's schmalzy painting, but I cannot be the first to have made it.
The window above, in the same vein, is in St Brendan's church, Bantry, SW Ireland, at least partly financed by the misery of its parishioners.)
Compare the above with Zanchi's depiction of Diogenes
ironically holding a lamp to find an honest man
or someone who was not a hypocrite.
The owl represents the power of the goddess Athenë
to see through human murk.
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