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scribed outlines for God'sarms into wet plaster with quick strokes ofa sharp tool. Then he abandoned thoseoutlines in a flash of brushstrokes. Hepainted God's left arm so it swept directlyoverhead, made that arm plunge a divinehand into the turbulent light and wrenchit from the darkness (page 697).

The Sistine Chapel quivers still with theaftershocks of Michelangelo's daringnow even more as nine years of carefulcleaning and restoration by Vaticanexperts come to an end. They have beenseparating darkness -the accumulatedgrime of nearly five centuries - fromMichelangelo's light. It is a light to amazethe eye and blind the soul.

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