a gravity of language

 

“Words, too, have genuine substance –

mass and weight and specific gravity.”

 

~ Tim O’Brien ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2013.

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the absurdity of it all

 

“We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode

in the blissful repose of nothingness.”

 

~ Arthur Schopenhauer ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 1987.

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the milk of human kindness

 

“The universe is a pretty big place.

If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.”

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a natural calcite formation taken in the Musée de Minéralogie in Paris in May 2018.

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que sais-je?

 

“Je pense, donc je suis.”

 

~ René Descartes ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a statue of the essayist and philosopher Michel de Montaigne located at the Square Paul-Painlevé in Paris, taken in June 2019.

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howl moonwards

 

“Be again, be again. (Pause.)

All that old misery. (Pause.)

Once wasn’t enough for you.”

 

~ Samuel Beckett ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2016.

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blabberwockey

 

“It seems to fill my head with ideas –

only I don’t know exactly what they are.”

 

~ Lewis Carroll ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2020 of a chondrite meteorite that was found in Morocco in 2019.

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A GRAVITY OF LANGUAGE

 

Words, too, have genuine substance –

mass and weight and specific gravity.”

 

~ Tim O’Brien ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2013.

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VORTEX

 

“The Image is more than an idea.

It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas

and is endowed with energy.”

 

~ Ezra Pound ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a fossilized mollusk from the author’s collection taken in October 2015.

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COBWEBS

 

“Sweeping cobwebs from the edges of my mind…”

 

~ Graham Nash ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the Cimetière du Père–Lachaise in Paris in September 2015.

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JUPITER

 

“…within the clouds appear numerous illusions,

a woman’s face with flowing hair and a windblown robe,

a bird’s head, fantastic creatures and so much mystery…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

This photo of clouds within a mysterious jet stream region on Jupiter was taken in February 2019 by NASA’s Juno Space Probe. Photo courtesy and © of NASA, JPL-Caltech, SwRI, MSSS and Kevin M. Gill. (I seldom use other people’s photos, but I couldn’t resist ‘borrowing’ this one.)

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SAFE HARBOUR

 

“When traversing the vast sea of loneliness,

Oneness is the only true safe harbor.”

 

~ Gary Hopkins ~

 

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

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BLABBERWOCKY

 

“It seems to fill my head with ideas –

only I don’t know exactly what they are.”

 

~ Lewis Carroll ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a chondrite meteorite found in Morocco in 2019 taken in February 2020.

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ICARUS’ SISTER

 

“It was sad and fierce all at once,

alive with a lonely purity.”

 

~ Karen Russell ~

 

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

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QUE SAIS-JE?

 

“Je pense, donc je suis.”

 

~ René Descartes ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a statue of the essayist and philosopher Michel de Montaigne located at the Square Paul-Painlevé in Paris taken in June 2019.

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A GRAVITY OF LANGUAGE

 

“Words, too, have genuine substance –

mass and weight and specific gravity.”

 

~ Tim O’Brien ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2013.

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LA MÈRE DE TOUT

 

“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me.”

 

~ Blaise Pascal ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a radically altered original photo of a ceramic creation taken in Paris in June 2018.

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THE MILK OF HUMAN KINDNESS

 

“Billions of years from now our sun,

then a distended red giant star,

will have reduced Earth to a charred cinder.

But the Voyager record will still be largely intact,

in some other remote region of the Milky Way galaxy,

preserving a murmur of an ancient civilization that once flourished.”

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a natural calcite formation taken in the Musée de Minéralogie in Paris in May 2018.

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THE LONGEST DAY

 

“A life without love is like a year without summer.”

 

~ Swedish Proverb ~

 

Original photo of Stonehenge taken in June 1980.

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THE ABSURDITY OF IT ALL

 

“…the universe has no sense of charity,

no laws of kindness and love…”

 

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of an excavated Roman cemetery taken in Germany in September 1987.

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THE DISEASE

 

“The contemplation of celestial things will make a man

both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently

when he descends to human affairs.”

 

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero ~

 

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

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