the distance of myth

 

“For time is the longest distance between two places.”

 

~ Tennessee Williams ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the summer of 1977.

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awakening

 

“Without change, something sleeps inside us,

and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”

 

~ Frank Herbert ~

 

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she

 

“O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend

the brightest heaven of invention.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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too tired to try

 

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter.

   Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”

 

~ Samuel Beckett ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of sandstone quartzite taken in Paris in May 2018.

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the silence descends

 

“Everything has a secret soul,

which is silent more often than it speaks.”

 

~ Wassily Kandinsky ~

 

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distance

 

“Time is the longest distance between two places.”

 

~ Tennessee Williams ~

 

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only ever now

 

“Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now.”

 

~ James Clavell ~

 

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gertrudian

 

“There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistence.”

 

~ Gertrude Stein ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the garden outside of Gertrude Stein’s apartment at 29 Rue de Fleurus taken in Paris in July 2013.

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STILLLEBEN

 

“…life, by definition, is never still.”

 

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

 

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REDOLENCE

 

“Ah, but I was so much older then,

I’m younger than that now…”

 

~ Bob Dylan ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2015.

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THE DISTANCE OF MYTH

 

“For time is the longest distance between two places.”

 

~ Tennessee Williams ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken from the summit of one of the Peaks Of Otter in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia in the summer of 1977.

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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 ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of Vénus Sortant Du Bain by Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain taken in Paris in June 2019.

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THE SILENCE DESCENDS

 

“Everything has a secret soul,

which is silent more often than it speaks.”

 

~ Wassily Kandinsky ~

 

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BRIDGE THIS SCHISM

 

“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth,

but delicious in the years of maturity.”

 

~ Albert Einstein ~

 

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TOO TIRED TO TRY

 

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter.

Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”

 

~ Samuel Beckett ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of sandstone quartzite taken in Paris in May 2018.

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SLUG SONGS

 

“There are three things in the world

that he held in the smallest esteem –

slugs, poets and caddies with hiccups.”

 

~ P. G. Wodehouse ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from two photos taken in Autumn 2010.

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STRATEGY

 

“So the darkness shall be the light,

and the stillness the dancing.”

 

~ T. S. Eliot ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the interior of the West Kennet Long Barrow taken in England in July 1983.

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INTO RAGE

 

“We are all sentenced to solitary confinement

inside our own skins, for life.”

 

~ Tennessee Williams ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2020.

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THE FIRST ACT IN THE TRAGEDY OF TOUCH

 

“Touch has a memory.”

 

~ John Keats ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo (detail) of a restored Roman mosaic taken in June 2004.

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THE MYTH OF DISTANCE

 

“For time is the longest distance between two places.”

 

~ Tennessee Williams ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Virginia Beach, Virginia in November 1996.

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