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Kit Williams
Author
Advertising
Built
Chariot
Dog
Hoop
You
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Zig Ziglar
Once upon a perfect night, unclouded and still, there came the face of a pale and beautiful lady. The tresses of her hair reached out to make the constellations, and the dewy vapours of her gown fell soft upon the land.
Kit Williams
Beautiful
Face
Hair
Once
Out
Constellations
Perfect
Perfect Night
Fell
Reached
Make
Still
Came
Gown
Lady
Land
Pale
Her
Night
Soft
You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.
Kit Williams
Beautiful
Art
You
World
Ambition
Engineering
See
Simply
Piece
Confound
Create
The rabbit is significant in that the handle on the original South Pointing Chariot was carved in the form of a rabbit. Because the handle extended out front it meant that wherever the rabbit went the chariot had to follow.
Kit Williams
Out
Significant
Chariot
Follow
Carved
Pointing
Had
Because
South
Handle
Front
Form
Wherever
Rabbit
Meant
Original
Extended
The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery.
Kit Williams
Dog
Painting
Hoop
Feature
Take
Place
Rabbit
The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years.
Kit Williams
Home
Took
Pleasure
Thousand
Chariot
Thousand Years
Collector
Purchased
Take
New
Knowing
Built
Least
Private
Years
York
New York
Who
Last
He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles.
Kit Williams
Life
Women
Later
Defied
Distraction
More
More And More
Tenacious
He
Calling
Blindness
His
Denied
Just
Candles
Refusing
Them
Presence
If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have.
Kit Williams
Tells
Instinct
Advertising
Makes
Listen
Human
Want
Us
Actually
Things
Need
If you look closely you can see that they are all interconnected, symbolic of a never-ending circle in which it is simply impossible for the dog to catch the rabbit.
Kit Williams
You
Dog
Impossible
Circle
See
Simply
Catch
Never-Ending
Look
Closely
Interconnected
Which
Rabbit
Symbolic
Today she is the lady of death, which I believe is the best muse to have.
Kit Williams
Today
Death
Best
Believe
She
Lady
Which
Muse
In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the muse, leads us.
Kit Williams
Character
Book
Key
Painting
Sections
Divided
Through
Leads
Tale
Fairy
Fairy Tale
Five
Represents
Which
Us
Now
Actually
Here
Muse
I started by looking at what others had done before me. You see, over the years there have been attempts by many different people to reconstruct the chariot.
Kit Williams
Me
You
People
Looking
Before
Others
Chariot
Reconstruct
See
Had
Attempts
Over
Been
Years
Done
Different
Different People
Many
Started
In practical terms the South Pointing Chariot was a simple direction finder. It could have been made to point in any direction - north, south, east or west.
Kit Williams
Simple
Made
East
Chariot
Direction
Point
Could
Pointing
Terms
Practical
Been
West
South
North
Any
The original item looked like a little hand cart with the figure of a man mounted on a platform between the wheels. The man's outstretched arm always pointed south.
Kit Williams
Man
Cart
Pointed
Between
Arm
Like
Looked
Always
South
Hand
Item
Wheels
Little
Figure
Original
Platform
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