What Heaven Looks Like

What Heaven Looks LikeSomewhere in Europewe don't know wherearound 1700. An artist is staring at something on the floor next to her worktable. It's just a log from the woodpile, stood on end. The soft, damp bark; the gently raised growth rings; the dark radial cracksnothing could be more ordinary. But as the artist looks, and looks, colors begin to appearshapeseven figures. She turns to a sheet of paper and begins to paint. Today this anonymous artist's masterpiece is

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