THE SEX OF WRITING

 

“My language is the common prostitute

that I turn into a virgin.”

 

~ Karl Kraus ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in September 2017.

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DREAM WITHIN A DREAM

 

“Days are stringed instruments

and every one strikes a different note.”

 

~ Kenneth Alfred Evelyn Alexander ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2016.

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CHAIRMAN MEOW

 

“In waking a tiger, use a long stick.”

 

~ Mao Zedong ~

 

Original photo of street art taken in the Rue Broca in Paris in May 2017.

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TAURIAN

 

“As beautiful as the chance encounter

of a sewing machine and an umbrella

on an operating table.”

 

~ Isadore Ducasse Lautreamon ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in the Marais Quarter of Paris in June 2017.

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PUSSY IN PARIS

 

“I love cats because I enjoy my home;

and little by little, they become its visible soul.”

 

~ Jean Cocteau ~

 

Original photo of street art cats taken on the Rue Ortolan, Paris in May 2017.

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BEYOND THE DOOR

 

“This is the strangest life I have ever known.”

 

~ Jim Morrison ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2016.

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SHADOWCASTING

 

“In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.”

 

~ Aaron Rose ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in the Bavarian Alps in September 2016.

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APPARITION

 

 

“I see for others… in order to put on canvas

the sudden apparitions which come to me.”

 

~ Pablo Picasso ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in the Taunus Mountains in May 1981.

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KITTEN

 

“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”

 

~ Albert Schweitzer ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in La Gomera in November 1991.

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ONE SHOE TWO TALES

 

“If you try to walk in my shoes, you’ll end up in a bookstore.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of the River Limmat, Zurich, Switzerland, taken in April 2007.

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FACE OF STONE

 

“Cum dignitate otium.”

 

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a carved relief of a Germanic prisoner captured by the Romans, taken in Mainz, Germany in January 2014.

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RHEIN

 

“The air grows cool and darkles,

The Rhine flows calmly on;

The mountain summit sparkles

In the light of the setting sun.”

 

~ Heinrich Heine ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken on the Rhine River near Wiesbaden, Germany in November 1981.

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NEON NIGHTBIRD

 

“A photographer is like a cod,

which produces a million eggs

in order that one may reach maturity.”

 

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken on the Canary Island of La Palma in May 1994.

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RESURRECTION

 

“Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul,

gives being to our hopes,

bids the coward flight, drives dull care away,

and teaches new means for the accomplishment of our wishes.”

 

~ Horace ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photograph taken in Weisenau, Germany in July 1987.

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DIVING FOR PEARLS

 

“The drowning man is not troubled by the rain.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Photo taken in Virginia Beach, Virginia in April 1992.

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WITH LITTLE FEELING

 

When I first took this photo some twenty-three years ago,

it profoundly moved me. Humankind’s inhumanity to their

own species is horrible enough, but our inhumanity towards

all life should make us seriously question our own morality

as a species. Sadly the answer to that question is very ugly…

 

 

Photo taken in the Frankfurt Zoo, Frankfurt am Main, Germany in April 1993.

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DEADDOGSEYES

 

“A dog’s spirit dies hard.”

 

~ Mikhail Bulgakov ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from two original photos, one taken in December 2009, the other in September 2015.

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LA FEMME RÊVANT

 

“To himself everyone is immortal;

he may know that he is going to die,

but he can never know that he is dead.”

 

~ Samuel Butler ~

 

Photo of a bronze statue on a grave (the author unfortunately neglected to note the name of the occupant) taken in Le cimetière du Père-Lachaise in Paris in May 2016.

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THE POET PRESERVED

 

“Poetry is the journal of a sea animal

living on land, wanting to fly in the air.

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.”

 

~ Carl Sandburg ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of Ossip Zadkine’s statue Le poèt ou Hommage à Paul Eluard taken in the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris in May 2016.

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PARIS ACCORDEON HAIKUS

 

“Welcome to Hell. Here’s your accordion.”

 

~ Gary Larson ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2016.

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