the cosmic lie of reason

 

“…there are no wrong turns, only unexpected paths.”

 

~ Mark Nepo ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2023.

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que sais-je?

 

“Je pense, donc je suis.”

 

~ René Descartes ~

 

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the glass hungered for the wine

 

“SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate

after he has eaten its contents, madam.”

 

~ Ambrose Bierce ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in August 2022.

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a purpose

 

“The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand

as in what direction we are moving.”

 

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in September 2007.

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the deception

 

“So much of life, it seems to me,

is determined by pure randomness.”

 

~ Sidney Poitier ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2015.

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WALLS

 

“Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.”

 

~ Eugene O’Neill ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2000.

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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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LAST NIGHT ALIVE

 

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

 

~ Mae West ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 1991.

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FRAGILITY

 

“nothing which we are to perceive in this world

equals the power of your intense fragility.”

 

~ e. e. cummings ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo, taken in April 2020, of thin 2000 year old pieces of birch bark that were preserved in a layer of sand, mud and loam below the level of the ground water table.

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LAYERS LAID DOWN

 

“Life is like an onion.

You peel it off one layer at a time,

and sometimes you weep.”

 

~ Carl Sandburg ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of geological and archaeological layers taken in August 1986.

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VERSE TOUJOURS

 

“Poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing.”

 

~ Lucille Clifton ~

 

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

 

“I have a rendezvous with life.”

 

~ Countee Cullen ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of the clock in the Musée d’Orsay taken in Paris in June 2019.

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THE UNKNOWN

 

“There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.”

 

~ Guy de Maupassant ~

 

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

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ENTWINE, ENTANGLE AND RECEDE

 

“Life is a long road on a short journey.”

 

~ James Lendall Basford ~

 

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

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IRRELEVANT NONETHELESS

 

“Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Original photo of a street art work called “Snail Condition” by an unknown artist taken in the Rue Edouard Quenu in Paris in June 2017.

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