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Bayeux tapestry

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Ba`yeux´ tap´es`try
1.A piece of linen about 1 ft. 8 in. wide by 213 ft. long, covered with embroidery representing the incidents of William the Conqueror's expedition to England, preserved in the town museum of Bayeux in Normandy. It is probably of the 11th century, and is attributed by tradition to Matilda, the Conqueror's wife.


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Instead of being a Bayeux Tapestry unrolling to provide images recording historical events, "Painters, Musicians, Writers" might be viewed as a tapestry of images of what it is like to be a human being feeling and living through life with engagement, awareness, and with the potential for enjoyment, albeit amid a context also inhabited by pain and tedium:
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