Abraham Lincoln: "Big enough to be inconsistent."

[Mark MacKenzie]

In the movie, when Lewis walks out of the White house towards the end, he adopted a peculiar gait which when I saw it, I thought, "that's Lincoln." Of course I've never seen Lincoln walk and I can't remember a description but it struck a chord.

I was able to look at a life mask at the LMU Museum. I was not allowed to touch it but the curator brought it out to us in his gloved hands. He would hold it at all angles. The face was not attractive at all angles but face to face, head on, it seemed attractive. It reminded me of my grandfather's face. Bronzes and sculpture all have artistic license, but the life mask is a copy of the face. I like the stereo photos for that same (almost) realism.

Of course, its the eye of the beholder, isn't it?