THE FOOL

 

“I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.”

 

~ Mark Twain ~

 

Image of the Tarot card “The Fool” downloaded from the internet in July 2017.

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THIRTEEN LIVES

 

“…the time…the time, all that time gone by,

all the memories faded, forever lost,

but wait, i have a photograph…”

 

 

Original photo taken in Rochefort, France in the Spring of 1961.

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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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SCREENPLAY

 

“Men are not prisoners of fate,

but only prisoners of their own minds.”

 

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt ~

 

Photo of a painting by an unknown artist taken in Paris in May 2017.

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ODE TO HYPERION

 

“In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.”

 

~ Horace ~

 

Digital image of the moon “Hyperion” created in May 2017.

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LA ROSE DES VENTS

 

“You were the poem I never knew how to write because no words

could describe the wind you cannot see, but feel.”

 

~ Shannon L. Alder ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Fouras, France in June 2006.

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AVEC TOI, LIBRE!

 

“A woman knows the face of the man she loves

as a sailor knows the open sea.”

 

~ Honore de Balzac ~

 

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

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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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REFLECTION

 

“Accept the things to which fate binds you

and love the people with whom fate brings you together,

and do so with all your heart.”

 

~ Marcus Aurelius ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created and reversed from an original window reflection photo taken in Paris in May 2016.

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NEITHER NOW NOR NEVER

 

“Oh boy!” rejoiced the poet,

“I get to use a few of my favourite words!”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a radically altered original photo taken by K. Kamps in Summer 1978. The text as well has been resurrected from the archives, rewritten and revised from an idea first committed to paper during a pub crawl in the late 1980’s.

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