"The Revelation" by Alan Bennett Ilagan; Pensive Images

Alan Bennett Ilagan's story between the 13-year-old-alter boy (Jesse) and the young priest (Brother Logan) "The Revelation" has ended with tragic consequences. Jesse's younger deaf brother turned up at the rectory looking for his brother; and unable to find him, he crawls onto some blankets in a small closet and falls asleep.

Brother Logan has been told to move on, for rector, Father Daemon, had discovered the relationship.

"Enveloped by the fog and hidden from the world, they held onto each other. The last moments with someone you love, knowing you will never them again, are different than saying goodbye to someone who has died. They will still be out there somewhere, living on without you, perhaps loving others and finding happiness on their own. They kissed, tenderly at first, then desperately."

(Update 02/07: The story is no longer available.)

I so liked the idea of the images of pensive guys that I've decided to make it a separate branch of the site.

Projects like this fall into four parts; determining where it will be and how named; establishing a systematic way for assigning file name to the images; creating the code for the pages; and, of course, trying to find the proper images.

And none of this is cut and dried. It involves a great deal of experimentation. Something may work in one case, but not another. Images can be easily be mislabeled. Pages can wind up in the wrong directory. You may suddenly discover an unforeseen gap in the code. You can upload pages and images, only to discover there is a delay in the refresh mechanism.

And this cuts across any manner in which you do it. Something as simple as notepad, typing directly into a UNIX editor, or the use of a site package like "Dreamweaver." It makes no difference. You still have to deal with the same issues.

I thought finding the images would be releatively easy. Turned out to be very difficult. I wanted images of guys in contemplation, even if poised. Easier said than done. I tried the image search at Google and lookd at hundreds of images. Then by chance I tried the image serach at Mamma Metasearch - The Mother of All Search Engines. I was pleasantly surprised. Seemed to be much faster than Google. It also any number of images that didn't surface at Google.

So far, I've only created three sites:

"I Am African"

James Dean

Collin Farrell,

PAX!