the cosmic lie of reason

 

“…there are no wrong turns, only unexpected paths.”

 

~ Mark Nepo ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2023.

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twist of fate

 

“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of

another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years.

To read is to voyage through time.”

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from two photos of a book from my library taken in March 2016.

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one thin wire

 

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

 

~ Simon Van Booy ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2007.

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l’ombre de la mort

 

“Life itself is but the shadow of death,

and souls departed but the shadows of the living.”

 

~ Thomas Browne ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2018.

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towards the light

 

“For the unlearned, old age is winter;

for the learned, it is the season of the harvest.”

 

~ Hasidic Proverb ~

 

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

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virus

 

“This virus is shrewd in its camouflage

   and unabashed in its cruelty.”

 

~ Aysha Taryam ~

 

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

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holey heavens

 

“Behind every cloud is another cloud.”

 

~ Judy Garland ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2017.

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a long uncertain ride

 

“A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke,

only man can prevent.”

 

~ Elie Wiesel ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2019.

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only ever now

 

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

 

~ James Clavell ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2019.

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la roue de la vie

 

“The wheel of a man’s life. No mercy. No pity.”

 

~ Robert Jordan ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2018.

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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 ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2019.

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la rue de ma vie

 

“We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink

in the wild outer music of the streets – we remember only.”

 

~ Henry Miller ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2018. The reflection is real.

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ces vieilles mains

 

“Last night I woke up with someone squeezing my hand.

It was my other hand.”

 

~ William S. Burroughs ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2019.

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moirai

 

“O! I am fortune’s fool.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 1989.

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on the ides

 

“The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.”

 

~ Julius Caesar ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo a Roman coin (actually the Emperor Trajan) taken in March 2021.

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swirls, smiles and snarls

 

“There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be.”

 

~ John Lennon ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2019.

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sacrilege

 

“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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

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PHASES AND SHADOWS

 

“If I die in this city let my soul drown in the Seine,

don’t make the wheel start up again,

then is now and now is then, it’s the same thing…”

 

~ John Greaves ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.

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LES RIDEAUX

 

“The fringed curtains of thine eye advance,

and say what thou seest yond.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2018.

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FLOAT AND FLOW

 

“To create is divine, to reproduce is human.”

 

~ Man Ray ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of Man Ray’s “Cadeau” (Edition 1974 number 1214 / 5000) taken in October 2019.

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