Posts Tagged With: Syntax

shiny black adjectives

 

“Life is a verb, not a noun.”

 

~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman ~

 

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WORDS

 

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”

 

~ Rudyard Kipling ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a 1908 edition of Webster’s International Dictionary taken in February 2018.


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FLIGHTS OF FANCY

 

“Some might think that the creativity, imagination,
and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.”

 

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

 

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SHINY BLACK ADJECTIVES

 

“Life is a verb, not a noun.”

 

~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman ~

 

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LA SYNTAXE PSYCHÉDÉLIQUE

 

“No one means all he says,
and yet very few say all they mean,
for words are slippery and thought is viscous.”

 

~ Henry Brooks Adams ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in October 2018.


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FLIGHTS OF FANCY

 

“Some might think that the creativity,
imagination, and flights of fancy
that give my life meaning are insanity.”

 

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2010.


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WORDS

 

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”

 

~ Rudyard Kipling ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a 1908 edition of Webster’s International Dictionary taken in February 2018.


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THE SEX OF WRITING

 

My language is the common prostitute
that I turn into a virgin.”

 

~ Karl Kraus ~

 

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


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CUMMINGS AND GOINGS

 

“the world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.”

 

~ e e cummings ~

 

000-cummings-and-goingsPhoto of the cover and signed and numbered dedication page of e e cummings’ book EIMI (1933 – a Soviet travelogue) from this author’s personal collection.


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POND SKATER

 

“She’d turned into a pond skater,
not because she didn’t know what lay beneath the surface,
but precisely because she did.”

 

~ Pat Barker ~

 

000-pond-skaterDigitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in the Bavarian Alps in September 2016.


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