Saturday, September 5, 2009

In Modern Parlance: the Last of the Pharaoh Popes

Like him or hate him, he sure looks fabulous in this 1963 colour photo. 

4 comments:

  1. Yes. He also looks like he can't wait to get rid of it all and wrap himself in a nice polyester horse blanket. Of course, it could just be the angle of the photo.

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  2. A shakespearean character, Paul VI.

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  3. Not for nothing did Blessed John the 23rd regularly refer to him as "Amleto", Italian for Hamlet. Incapable of making up his mind about anything. They used to say that the most influential person in his life was the last person he had spoken to.

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  4. LIFE Magazine wrote he was Hamlet.

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