The rendering of shadows throughout the space is really nice! I love this sort of work.

It's well down, creates a contemplative atmosphere.

Nice.

But are you sure this isn't the room where Francis Bacon was born?

Or the Earl of Oxford; it's nice that the fellow who introduced that theory should have been called Thomas Looney.

By coincidence, today I heard Austrian artist Ernst Fuchs state that Shakespeare was Bacon. During a radio feature on the colour red. Lots of blood in Shakespeare, so that's how he came in. "I cannot go into details, but I'm sure that this theory is true, because I read it in a totally serious book." Ne supra crepidam sutor, maybe? (But then of course, I'm a dilettante as well.)

'I'm sure that this theory is true, because I read it a totally serious book': what a wonderfully idiotic statement! Cranks are, of course, always deadly serious. The Bacon theory is quite the silliest, one only has read a to read a page or two of anything that he wrote to see that he thought in a totally different way from Shakespeare, and didn't have an ounce of poetry in him.

Very low ceilings, any modern writer would get depressed and writer´s block. The writer´s desk at least is placed at the window.
I like the dim light and general feeling of gloom, one can almost smell the washed tiles. Or maybe just the fireplace, if that is one, to the left.
(Of course, this room also gives your recent account of forced labor in your study new meaning to silly people on the lookout for hidden such.)

Edited at 2013-02-01 05:04 pm (UTC)

I don't mind low ceilings myself, it's better than tall ones where flies and mosquitoes can joy eternal freedom. It's good to see that they weren't slow to put young Master Shakespeare to work.