This picture is based off of a poem that I read in the fourth grade. The message of it has stuck with me ever since...
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If I am tempted to reveal
A tale, someone to me has told
About another, let it pass,
Before I speak, three gates of gold.
Three narrow gates: First, is it true?
Then, is it needful? In my mind
Give truthful answer, and the next
Is last and narrowest, Is it kind?
And if, to reach my lips at last,
It passes through these gateways, three,
Then I may tell the tale, nor fear
What the result of speech may be.
~ Author Unknown ~
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The picture itself took a little over 30 minutes to render in Blender Internal, and I did some final touch up work to it in GIMP.
