DESPITE IT ALL

 

“Every man dies. Not every man lives.”

 

~ William Wallace ~

 

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SERIOUS MOONLIGHT

 

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

 

~ David Bowie ~

 

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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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SCRIPTURE

 

“The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles.

Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.”

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

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WORMHOLES

 

“Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience

that primordial shamanism is based on

is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.”

 

~ Terence McKenna ~

 

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BLACK CLOUDS DANCING

 

“We don’t see things as they are, 

we see them as we are.”

 

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

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THE DEMONS ARE DELIGHTED

 

“He who is neither human nor demon

is not the dawn nor the dusk.”

 

~ Kohta Hirano ~

 

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THE NATURE OF THE BEAST WITHIN

 

“The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles.

Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.”

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

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COITUS DAEMONIUM

 

“He who is neither human nor demon

is not the dawn nor the dusk.”

 

~ Kohta Hirano ~

 

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DARK COME THE DAYS

 

“Night’s black Mantle covers all alike.”

 

~Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas ~

 

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CURTAINS

 

“Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.”

 

~ Francois Rabelais ~

 

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INQUISITION

 

“Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear

than I who am condemned.”

 

~ Giordano Bruno ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken within the Roman Porta Nigra (The Black Gate) in Trier, Germany in September 1988.

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SCREAM

 

“The sleep of reason produces monsters.”

 

~ Francisco Goya ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in the Church of St. Katharin in Oppenheim, Germany in January 2010.

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MORNING AFTER

 

“It is not time for mirth and laughter,

the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.”

 

~ George Ade ~

 

Digital water colour image created in November 2016.

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NIGHT SLIPS IN

 

“Darkness will always be…its own master…”

 

~C.K. Mullinax ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Old Sarum, England in July 1982.

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