Winged Victory of Samothrace

So I constantly lose bookmarks. It's like my thing. My, what a boring 'thing' to have Toni, you might say. I might punch you in the box. Wow, that really escalated quickly.

The point is, I pick up random things in my room to use as bookmarks, rather than wasting money on them or using the one about Jesus. My grandma pushed it on me, convinced that I'm doomed to an eternity of hell because I'm agnostic...unless I use this bookmark, presumably.

See how I said, 'the point is' up there? Yeah, this is really the point: when I started reading Neverwhere I picked up this postcard that I bought at the louvre with this winged statue on it to use as my bookmark. Loved the statue. Liked the postcard a whole lot when I first got it and now, I can't stop looking at it. It's marble (naturally) and you can still see the way the wind moves the fabric around her body and she's striding towards something and the wings...It's all very good. I think I like the statue even better without the head and arms (they haven't found them yet). It doesn't seem incomplete, only more awesome.

In the course of looking for a picture to post here that would do justice to it the way the postcard does, I did a little research. Not real research, just Wikipedia, the kind shunned in any real academic setting. Apparently, it was discovered on some Greek island in 1863 and is thought to date from 220 BC - 190 BC and was for the bow of a victorious ship.

And now, the picture: