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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Joseph Mason, post: 1511864, member: 13529&quot;]BaseballGames - I&#039;d give my right arm AND pay good money to have a front row seat when that last synapse you&#039;re running on finally blows. I&#039;m guessing it would look like that seagull on the business end of a Randy Johnson fastball.</p><p>You&#039;re pretty good with that photo lineup thing you do. Kudos to you!&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Tell you what .... how about doing that with all 130 photos of Lincoln - and then we can separate em all out into about 10 different piles.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lincoln&#039;s private secretary ... John G. Nicolay ... &quot;The question of looks depended in Lincoln&#039;s case very much upon his moods ... the large framework of his features was greatly modified by the emotions that controlled them. Lincoln&#039;s features were the despair of every artist who undertook his portrait. Graphic art was powerless before a face that moved through a thousand delicate gradations of line and contour, light and shade, sparkle of the eye and curve of the lip, in the long gamut of expression from grave to gay, and back again from the rollicking jollity of laughter to that serious faraway look that with prophetic intuitions beheld the awful panorama of war, heard the cry of oppression and suffering. There are many pictures if Lincoln; there is no portrait of him.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Walt Whitman, noted contemporary poet and admirer of Lincoln ... &quot;Though hundreds of portraits have been made, by painters and photographers, (many to pass on, by copies, to future times), I have never seen one yet that in my opinion deserved to be called a perfectly good likeness; nor do I believe there is really such a one in existence. May I not say too, that as there is no entirely competent and emblematic likeness of Abraham Lincoln in picture or statue, there is not - perhaps cannot be - any fully appropriate literary statement or summing up of him yet in existence.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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