“In the cycle of a great civilization,
the artist begins as priest,
and ends as a clown or buffoon.”
~ Malcolm Muggeridge ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the Canary Island of La Gomera in 1991.
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“There are ancient and modern poems which breathe, in their entirety and in every detail, the divine breath of irony. In such poems there lives a real transcendental buffoonery.” ~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel