#quaestor

XIV. Asterix in Spain - Pepe's dad and spanish woman Man of a dream. Slim body, buff hands, excellent clothing and his helmet with large horns mmmmmmmmm I can't stop looking at him. This volume is plenty of beautiful women but HER, I'm in love with her 🤍

XV. Asterix and the Roman Agent - MORE WOMEN No further explanation is needed here, just look at them and you will fall in love...

XVI. Asterix in Switzerland - Quaestor and his guard I'm sorry, but they are both my biggest "hear me out" of side characters ever! He's the smartass with great appearance. Green outfit is perfect [for me probably because that's my favourite color] Also he's the first ever Roman who was at the banquet with Gauls so it makes him even cooler haha Legionary with curly, red beard is one of his kind. Literally. He looks so interesting that I would read a story only about this guy! He needs more attention!!!

Marcus Tullius Cicero

“All the high moments in art are magical in quality; that is, have an untranslatable and indefinable influence that is unforgettable; for a vital consciousness enters in just as life enters an organism and makes it move.

Critics endeavour to analyse it—and fail. Students try to imitate but unsuccessfully; and the envious belittle it, but are themselves forgotten.

Now a great work of art is also a spiritual mystery; for the artist has pierced many veils, probed beyond the illusions into the permanent, and a hint—fragrant with infinite richness and intensity—has been given. And this enduring loveliness, whether distilled into words or music, into colour or stone, is given to man. A great adventure has been recorded; a spiritual illumination has been saturated in virtue, which gathers—strangely enough—strength through the ages.

To analyse this elusive magic is impossible; as well try to analyse the divine; for even the artist cannot analyse this gift thou he has captured and expressed it. Magic, like electricity, can be used, but not defined.

The great artist has no necessity to be consciously revolutionary as his inspirations are of a unique nature and comprehensive sense. Neither does he express his age; he expresses himself through the medium of his age, which is vastly different. The great artist, though frequently prophetic, can be equally retrospective and can incorporate in his work as much of the past as he does the future. His mind ranges over far greater perspectives in visions and in ideas, and it is not because he is ahead of his time that makes him either prophetic or retrospective, but because he is above his time; though this quality would be exceedingly rare, as such a quality would defeat one of the purposes of art: to be a bridge between lower and higher man.”

— Quaestor, The Occult Observer, no. 1

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