Posts Tagged With: Flies

siren

 

“It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope.
We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren
until she allures us to our death.”

 

~ Gertrude Stein ~

 

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


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trick of the tongue

 

“The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog.”

 

~ Algernon Charles Swinburne ~

 

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


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SIREN

 

“It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope.
We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren
until she allures us to our death.”

 

~ Gertrude Stein ~

 

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


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WITHOUT FLIES

 

“The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.”

 

~ George Herbert ~

 

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


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CHOCOLATE CREATURES

 

“Life without books, chocolate and coffee is just useless.”

 

~ Nadun Lokuliyanage ~

 

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


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PISSING INTO THE WIND

 
“The government of the United States is not,
in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.”

~ John Adams ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris in May 2012.


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ON THE MENU HERE

 

“I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life.”

 

~ Elaine Dundy ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a pocket camera photo taken near Agia-Anna, Naxos, Greece in August 1979.


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TRICK OF THE TONGUE

 

“The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog.”

 

~ Algernon Charles Swinburne ~

 

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


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SIREN

 

“It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope.
We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren
until she allures us to our death.”

 

~ Gertrude Stein ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in September 2019.


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LYLY POND

 

“Theories pass. The frog remains.”

 

~ Jean Rostand ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in April 1992.


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