Appointment by goldie
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Description
While creating this scene, a story I read many years ago came to mind.
Death Speaks:
There was a merchant in Baghdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said,
"Master, just now when I was in the marketplace I was jostled by a woman in the crowd and when I turned I saw it was Death that jostled me. She looked at me and made a threatening gesture, now, lend me your horse, and I will ride away from this city and avoid my fate. I will go to Samarra and there Death will not find me."
The merchant lent him his horse, and the servant mounted it, and he dug his spurs in its flanks and as fast as the horse could gallop he went.
Then the merchant went down to the marketplace and he saw me standing in the crowd and he came to me and said,
"Why did you make a threatening gesture to my servant when you saw him this morning?"
"That was not a threatening gesture, I said, it was only a start of surprise. I was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra. (Appointment in Samarra, John O'Hara)
It's a fatalist's view of life, where the moral of the story is, of course, you cannot change/escape your destiny.
Thanks for taking the time to view my work and for your kind comments...greatly appreciate your support.
Comments (20)
And Death herself is just as caught by fate as we are. Very fine work Barb.
Awesome Creation.
If he knocking on my Door,i will tell him"Sorry,my wife is not home"LOL Fantastic image,excellent done,love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Very nice work, it's fantastic: star2:
Superb!
A beautiful story whose morality is indisputable! Great illustation too, excellent work, Barb!
Excellent!!!
She would give you the shivers, fantastic setting and character!
Great work ... Fantastic character. 👍🖐
Definitely a moral there but oh what stylish art! Love what you've done here and you're buying loads of goodies for Daz Studio! lol Nice one Barbara!
One of my favorite characters by dear Madde, bummer is she's for daz users. Excellent gothic image hon. Love it.
When death speaks I'll shut off my hearing.
Wow, she's hauntingly beautiful. The story is a good one, those stories always make me a little frightened as we are reminded some things are out of our control.
Good to see she has found the secret passage in from the swirling maelstorm outside...
A chilling and superbly done image, Barb - and a fittingly spine-tingling tale to go with it. I guess when your lottery ticket is punched, all you can do is cash it in...
I'm avoiding it as long as possible, though... 😲
Fantastic image!!!
Exciting and excellent art. Top notch story!
Awesome image very creepy but cool. I really the story you included
Awesome!
Very Unique!
Superbe travail, j'adore, une réalisation extra !!