GARGOYLE SANS CATHEDRAL

 

“One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.”

 

~ Victor Hugo ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a gargoyle on one of the towers of Notre Dame Cathedral taken in Paris in July 2013.

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PARIS: PLEASURES, PASSIONS AND PERAMBULATIONS – EIGHT

 

“Walking is also an ambulation of mind.”

 

~ Gretel Ehrlich ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of my time-worn sandals taken in Paris in May 2018.

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GARGOYLE

 

 

“Why was I not made of stone like thee?”

~ Quasimodo ~

 

 

Digitally created oil painting created from an original photo taken at Notre Dame in Paris in May 2012.

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REINFORCEMENT

 

 

 

“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system,

a literary dogma, we become automatons.”

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

 

 

Detail photo of a portion of the West Front of Notre Dame taken in Paris in April 2008.

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THE ELEPHANT OF NOTRE DAME

 

…tucked between les Chimères, you can see him leaning rather nonchalantly on the balustrade of the inner south face of the north tower…

 

 

Photo taken from the Galerie des Chimères, the colonnaded gallery between the Towers of Notre Dame in Paris in July 2013.

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THE RETURN

 

…and this too shall pass…

 

 

The sun shining on the flying buttresses of Notre Dame. Photo taken in Paris at the end of August 2015.

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QUASIMODO’S PERSPECTIVE

 

Though he no longer rings the bells…Quasimodo’s poor spirit still looks down from the tower as an unending stream of tourists shuffles past…

 

Photo taken from the South Tower of Notre Dame in Paris in May 2013.

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