The Ultimate Sculpture

By Raja Sharma

After about half an hour he was back in her room. He was relieved when he found her soundly asleep. Now there was a glow on her pink face. He thought that her beauty and grace surpassed the beauty of all the fairies and nymphs he had painted for so many years. He was tempted to touch her face but suddenly he stopped. He was afraid that the touch of his hand could mar her beauty. She was pure marble and he did not want to stain it. He pulled a chair and sat beside her bed. He was mesmerized by that face, that grace, and the radiance it emitted. He did not know when he began to nod. Soon he was in sleep in that chair.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Raja Sharma
• Release date: Aug 26, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476461748

Raja Sharma

Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.

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The Ultimate Sculpture

Raja Sharma

Copyright@2012 Raja Sharma

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Chapter One: Unromantically Romantic

Before that beautiful incident, he was in love with his paintings, his sculptures, his artistic creations, and people often said that he was unromantically romantic because his creations were the epitome of his romantic emotions, but the storehouse of his romance was never showered upon any beautiful woman who came to his house to admire his creations since he always remained so aloof and alienated from the guests whom he often invited to his lavish parties that people began to call him a misanthrope.

The statues of fairies, the painted angels making love to nymphs, the most imaginably beautiful mortals, and the scenes of nature seemed to be singing a hymn so pious and serene that a visitor to his house could only marvel at the skill of the creator, or enviously declare him a