IN THE KEY OF COME HITHER…

 

“Our work is not to become unique. We are unique.

Our work is to unleash our sense of adventure

and to allow the inner whisper that says

“come hither” to be reason enough to go.”

 

~ Vironika Tugaleva ~

 

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LES RIDEAUX

 

“The fringed curtains of thine eye advance,

and say what thou seest yond.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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SPEED OF DARKNESS

 

“No matter how fast light travels

it finds the darkness has always got there first,

and is waiting for it.”

 

~ Terry Pratchett ~

 

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MEMORIES

 

“The days are short, the sun a spark

hung thin between the dark and dark.”

 

~ John Updike ~

 

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ETERNAL NIGHT

 

“We live along the shores of night, at the edge of the eternal sea.”

 

~ Jack McDevitt ~

 

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ONE THIN WIRE

 

“Every moment is the paradox of now or never.”

 

~ Simon Van Booy ~

 

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SCREAM

 

“The sleep of reason produces monsters.”

 

~ Francisco Goya ~

 

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THE SUMMER THAT WASN’T

 

“It will not always be summer: build barns.”

 

~ Hesiod ~

 

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TWILIGHT TIME

 

“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose…”

 

~ Ecclesiastes 3 ~

 

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YARDSTICK

 

“Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.”

 

~ Mason Cooley ~

 

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TONGUE OF THE NIGHT

 

“Caught between the tongue and the taste.”

 

~ Anne Carson ~

 

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SERIOUS MOONLIGHT

 

“Let’s sway under the moonlight, this serious moonlight…”

 

~ David Bowie ~

 

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THE OIL OF YOU

 

“And ever has it been known that love knows not

its own depth until the hour of separation.”

 

~ Khalil Gibran ~

 

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CELLARING

 

“So let’s drink some wine and have a good time,

but if you really want to come through

let the good time have you…”

 

~Kevin Ayers ~

 

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THIS EXCREMENT UNCTION

 

“So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”

 

~ T. S. Eliot ~

 

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MINUTES MEASURED

 

“Time needs another minute.”

 

~ Sly Stone ~

 

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STRATEGY

 

“So the darkness shall be the light,

and the stillness the dancing.”

 

~ T. S. Eliot ~

 

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SHINY BLACK ADJECTIVES

 

“Life is a verb, not a noun.”

 

~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman ~

 

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THAT ONCE CAST HER SHADOW

 

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”

 

~ Jack Lemmon ~

 

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INCUBUS

 

“Sex ages us. Priests are boyish,

spinsters stay black-haired until after fifty.

We others, the demon rots us out.”

 

~ John Updike ~

 

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