“We’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what.
That’s what it is to be alive.”
~ Kurt Vonnegut ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Pompeii in June 1996.
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empires
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Breath, Crumble, Curse, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Empires, Foundations, Future, History, Ignorance, Lessons, Life, Mankind, Memories, Past, Perspective, Photography, Plundering, Poetry, Proud, Rot, Rubble, Ruins, Strong, Stupidity, Survivors, Tall, Tides, Time, Walls, Wreckage
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“History is the poisoned well, seeping into the ground-water. It’s not the unknown past we’re doomed to repeat, but the past we know.” ~ Anne Michaels