Today's attempts to resolve the Quandary (login or register to compose yours):
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It was our custom to gather at a small café in Montparnasse every Wednesday afternoon with some discussing their latest paintings, others their new prose or parnassian compositions and I recall that on one of these occasions, there was a violent cloudburst and downpour which caught Henri (Matisse) on his way to the café and led Jean-Paul (Sartre), who had a well-known filial affection for him, to act out a pasquinade of the soaked painter while Salvador (Dali) and Henry (Miller) nearly fell off their chairs laughing.
(by Sami)2
The Berlin Wall painting of Brezhnev and Honecker kissing is a pasquinade, parodying the sometimes subservient and filial relationship of Germany to Russia during the Cold War in a parnassian method that is striking yet leaves many questions; how unpoetic and depressing that its destruction may be at the hands of a luxury development rather than a slow, natural deterioration through many a cloudburst or snowstorm or hot sun.
(by Shortscribe)
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Herbert the librarian provoked a veritable cloudburst of tears at the Sunday dinner table when, confounding his professional duty with his filial, he presented his mother with a floral bouquet and a card containing this parnassian pasquinade:
"Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
The town's copy of 'Fifty Shades of Grey'
Is seventeen days overdue!" (by Gravely)
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O Captain, my Captain, the halcyon days of parnassian expression are done; what once lit the heart and mind with crafted words is now replaced with cloudbursts of blog and tweet; posted obloquy supplanting pasquinade, an ideographic heart standing stead for a sonnet, satire—a vicious video; would Shakespeare or Swift disown the filial connections to their work; surely Swift would have a modest proposal for these offspring.
(by fdrisc)