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From Arcimboldo to R. Cimboldo...

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Arcimboldo said:
Whew! Of course I knew Monty Python's television show, but it took me some time and investigation to understand the association between the "Clockwise" manip and a Flying Circus.

Merriam-Webster taught me it's a "rotary echelon formation of airplanes in action".

Well, I agree that there is some rotating action in the Romilda pic :roflmao:

In addition I learned that a German "Jagdgeschwader" fighter group was nicknamed the "Flying Circus" because of the pilots decision to paint their aircraft in bright colours.
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This way Melissa enabled us to realize the self-evident mental connection between the medieval Duchy Romilda, Manfred von Richthofen, Monty Python, the dogfight of a brave Beagle named Snoopy and Arcimboldo/R.Cimboldo :D
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But I found another interesting source - the Urban Dictionary:
Flying Circus: A sex act in which a woman is reverse cowgirl on top of a man, and then they attempt to jump/throw her to another man standing by a wall. Unbeknownst to her, the second man plans to sidestep and let her hit the wall and fall down, hopefully leaving her writhing in agony. Then both men ejaculate on her.
James found out his girlfriend was cheating on him, so we gave the bitch the flying circus.
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Close! but my train of thought was something like "Screwed"...>"Clockwise"....>Archimedes' screw....>Da Vinci's flying machine using Archimedes screw...>Monty Python's Flying Circus...>Buffalo Bill's Circus...>Arcimboldo's injuns...>Ideas for a front cover. The Red Baron wasn't part of it.
 
More about constructions and crotches:

Hot nail

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"Oh my God, that's the most obscene way to display a naked woman in public! And what a big nail that is!"

"They say she's a witch. There are witnesses who saw her in the center of an ungodly orgy. Satan himself had intercourse with her in the shape of a a billy goat. And he preferred her most narrow orifice. And they say she enjoyed it..."

"Then this here is not a punishment, but a reward for her!"

"Well, not for long... Watch the rough surface of that rusty rod! Any movement, any attempt to bend or stretch her knees will rub like a rasp on her sensitive skin. The weight at the balance beam pushes the metal rod upwards into her rectum. She may try to stretch her knees, but whatever she tries and how forceful she fights, she can't shove the tip out of her ass - due to that chain..."

"In private, I would like to know how it feels... My husband anyway shows an interest in my back door."

"Mine too. But we should be cautious! If someone blows the whistle on that, we might easily take her place on that framework."

"Yes, you are right. Then I would learn more than I really wanted to know."

"Look, now they are placing a brazier beneath the head of the big nail."

"Wow! It will take some time till the heat reaches the tip of the rod."

"Nevertheless I'm sure we won't get bored the next hours! "

"I see how devilish this device is. And amusing. The more she tries to shove the rod out of her ass, the deeper she dips the nail's head into the fire, the hotter the nail gets..."

"A seesaw! An ingenious construction!"

"Do you know the inventor?"

"He is rather popular and famous for his innovations. An Italian name, as far as I remember..."


More to come...?
 
Arcimboldo said:
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This work has captivated me since I saw it quite a few years ago; for me, it is the Ultimate Arcimboldo, it is your Madonna-of-the-Rocks, your Sistine Chapel.
 
Arcimboldo said:
More about constructions and crotches:

Hot nail

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"Oh my God, that's the most obscene way to display a naked woman in public! And what a big nail that is!"

"They say she's a witch. There are witnesses who saw her in the center of an ungodly orgy. Satan himself had intercourse with her in the shape of a a billy goat. And he preferred her most narrow orifice. And they say she enjoyed it..."

"Then this here is not a punishment, but a reward for her!"

"Well, not for long... Watch the rough surface of that rusty rod! Any movement, any attempt to bend or stretch her knees will rub like a rasp on her sensitive skin. The weight at the balance beam pushes the metal rod upwards into her rectum. She may try to stretch her knees, but whatever she tries and how forceful she fights, she can't shove the tip out of her ass - due to that chain..."

"In private, I would like to know how it feels... My husband anyway shows an interest in my back door."

"Mine too. But we should be cautious! If someone blows the whistle on that, we might easily take her place on that framework."

"Yes, you are right. Then I would learn more than I really wanted to know."

"Look, now they are placing a brazier beneath the head of the big nail."

"Wow! It will take some time till the heat reaches the tip of the rod."

"Nevertheless I'm sure we won't get bored the next hours! "

"I see how devilish this device is. And amusing. The more she tries to shove the rod out of her ass, the deeper she dips the nail's head into the fire, the hotter the nail gets..."

"A seesaw! An ingenious construction!"

"Do you know the inventor?"

"He is rather popular and famous for his innovations. An Italian name, as far as I remember..."


More to come...?
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Magnificent image and text.. your contraptions are as fiendish as ever! :clapclap:
 
The torment continues - here is the sequel of Hot nail.
Reworked in just few, but drastic details. I am putting the new in juxtaposition to the first version.

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It had taken some time for the rod to heat up to its tip.
Meanwhile Laura had started sweating profusely.
The defiant look in her eyes had vanished, her face turned into a grimace of pain.
They inserted resinous pinewood spills into the small drill holes in the wooden beam beneath her toes and set them alight.
Her squirms turned into uncontrolled movements - wild but unsuccessful attempts to remove her nailed feet from the searing flames, while the sizzling piece of metal burned her anus and rubbed it sore at the same time.
One of the executioners laughed.
"Guess you've got more holes to stuff! I'm sure the billy goat used them all!"
So they stuffed her vagina with a rolled sheet of paper and set it on fire.
Laura panicked and yelled.
But the paper burned away rather quickly, inflicting only minor singes.
Despite her agony, Laura noticed two giggling young women among the lecherous spectators in front of her.
Watching the flame dying out between the labia, one of them shouted:
"Let's repeat it, but with oil-soaked papers!"
 
H'm. They seem to refer to the creation stories in the first book of Ovid's Metamorphoses - Jupiter creating the seasons, dividing fire and ice - Mercury and Daphne both feature in that book too, but here they seem to stand for autumn and spring?
 
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Two years later: Vacant - the accompanying text created with the help of Lady Catherine:

Valeria stared from a distance as the slim figure was dragged up the tall weathered stipes. Even from afar she could hear the screams as the nails tore at the victim's slender wrists. Blood flowing from beneath the wood slats and running down her arms as she kicked and twisted her body in a vain attempt to get a hold of something, anything. Screaming louder as the patibulum was set in place. Her body feeling the vibrations on the wood she was attached upon.

Valeria stood frozen in place as the guards roughly took her legs and spread them wide. The crowd roaring with laughter and shouting obscene comments to the splayed woman. The guards setting the wooden rod of the sedile in place before letting the woman loose to impale herself. Her face contorting more as the thick roughness entered her most private of areas. The crowd got louder.

Still, her legs were free. The guards taking each ankle as the woman cursed them. Forcing her to bend her legs at the knees as they placed one sole flat against the stipes. The other foot place tight on its top. Another guard touched the long nail to her top foot. The woman began pleading with him to spare her this additional nailing. Apologizing, promising him pleasures she was not in any position to give him on this cross. The guard said nothing, but quickly raised the hammer and let it fall hard on the nail head. Driving it into her feet again and again. The woman's body jerking. Her head slamming against the wood as she screamed out in pain once again.

The guards stood back and admired their work, The condemned woman had been attached to the cross in a most obscene way. She was stark naked. Her body was covered only with sweat - besides the countless welts and other marks of torture. Her thighs parted enough to display her womanhood and the wood that disappeared between her folds and inside her. Still she cursed at the men that had done this to her. The guards continued scourging their victim, causing her to rise and fall on the thing inside her as the mob howled their pleasure.

Valeria had worked her way forward through the audience to the upright. Being a young noble woman, she should not have been on a place like this among the plebeians. But she didn't care. She could not turn her eyes from the slender, contorted woman that danced in pain upon this cross. She felt her heart beating heavy against her chest. She noticed with fright her inner feelings that in some way that pain-racked, twitching female body looked ... beautiful.

When the fatigued guards took a break, Valeria was standing at the base of this woman's cross staring up with wonder and fascination. Looking over every detail of the woman's torture. Watching intently as blood flowed from the nail hole and dripped from the woman's feet. The tortured woman opened her eyes and looked around. Valeria looked up. The woman returned Valeria's gaze. She tried to laugh, but she only managed to grimace from exhaustion. Her voice was hoarse and very low, and Valeria was not sure whether she heard it correctly.

"You'd like to know how it feels up here, wouldn't you? Look back! That stake behind you is still free! It could be for you!"

Her eyes were penetrating while looking down at Valeria.

"You'd look pretty nailed there, I'm sure."

Valeria turned round abruptly. She glanced at the tall bare stipes. She felt something happening inside her. Definitely anger at what the brazen woman had said to her, but it was more than that. She ran passed the guards who sat in a circle throwing dice for the few belongings of the convict. She threw some copper coins to the men.

"Torture her!" Valeria yelled as she ran passed, and added, "thoroughly...and for a long time!"

Fighting her way through the crowd. She covered her ears to block the sounds of the screams from the crucified woman. The sounds of the lashes beating flesh. The haunting echo of her words ringing through her brain. Tears running down her cheeks. She moved hastily and didn't dare to look back. She left the crucifixion site.
 
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