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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mare nostrum

 

Δέδυκε μὲν ἀ σελάννα

καὶ Πληΐαδες, μέσαι δέ

νύκτες, πάρα δ’ ἔρχετ’ ὤρα,

ἔγω δὲ μόνα κατεύδω.

 

“The moon and the Pleiades have set,

it is midnight,

time is passing,

but I sleep alone.”

 

~ Sappho ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken near the island of Thera (Santorini) in 1992.

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DIMENSIONS

 

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken at the Musee du Louvre in Paris in February 2007.

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CRINKLE CRANKLE

 

“Two roads diverged in a wood and I –

I took the one less traveled by,

and that has made all the difference.”

 

~ Robert Frost ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken of the ruins of the Celtic defensive wall on the Altkönig mountain in Germany in the summer of 1985.

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WHO NEEDS POETRY

 

“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.”

 

~ Gustave Flaubert ~

 

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

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A GOOD PLACE TO DIE

 

“When good Americans die they go to Paris.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2017.

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