The Catcher in the Rye

the one dollar-bill
The above Shutterstock image is in the article below.
​I have used Shutterstock pictures and AI-generated pictures throughout my blog. Example …

South African farm house, pre-apartheid

www.unz.com/article/the-freemason-in-the-rye/#aitextsummary
The Freemason in the Rye, by Joe Atwill • August 11, 2025  • 9,000 Words • 10 Comments • Reply

(Adult language. You can read it yourself and then explain it to a child without the words if intelligent enough to understand; maybe an explanation of the dollar-bill is sufficient. However, this is the most significant piece of writing I have ever read about Freemasons.)

My good, good friend, Bill, from St. Stephen the First Martyr Catholic Church in Sacramento, sent me the article.

Title: The lapidation of Saint Stephen
Description: stoning of Saint Stephen
Artist: Rembrandt (1606–1669) 
Genre: religious art 
Date: 1625 (He painted this scene when he was 19!)
Medium: oil on oak wood
Dimensions: three feet by four feet (roughly)
Collection: Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon (France)
Painting history

• commissioned by Petrus Scriverius (?)
• 1844: purchased by the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon

Source/photographer: Œuvre appartenant au musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon Consulter cette image photographiée par Gilles Alonso spécialiste de la photo en gigapixel en très haute définition (+1 milliard de pixels)
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rembrandt-Lapidation-Saint-%C3%89tienne-MBA-Lyon.jpg​

The background is, of course, Europe. You paint what you know, just as you write what you know. The rest is your imagination.