the garlic gods

 

“One rule in life,” he murmured to himself.

“If you can smell garlic, everything is all right.”

 

~ J.G. Ballard ~

 

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

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how tart the taste

 

“A memory is what is left when something happens

and does not completely unhappen.”

 

~ Edward de Bono ~

 

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taste alone

 

“I would rather die with the taste of you on my tongue

than live and never touch you again.”

 

~ Michelle Hodkin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an analog photo taken in May 1986.

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HOT SCALES SLITHER

 

“Caught between the tongue and the taste.”

 

~ Anne Carson ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in France in June 2006.

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TONGUE OF THE NIGHT

 

“Caught between the tongue and the taste.”

 

~ Anne Carson ~

 

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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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LEFT TO HER OWN DEVICES

 

“To be old and wise, you must first be young and stupid.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2001.

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ALWAYS BAREFOOT IN THE BRAMBLES

 

“All memories fade away in the end. Then, only dreams are left.

And because they are all we have, we confide our life’s worries to them.”

 

~ Philippe Forest ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 1988.

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SWEET RUM NIPPLES

 

“I have put my talent into writing,

my genius I have saved for living.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in August 2020.

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DREAMBO

 

“A memory is what is left when something happens

and does not completely unhappen.”

 

~ Edward de Bono ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Magdeburg, Germany in July 2011.

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YEARNING

 

“How we need another soul to cling to.”

 

~ Sylvia Plath ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo (detail) of street art on the Berlin Wall taken in January 2018.

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RAINBOWS

 

“Friendship is like a rainbow between two hearts.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2015.

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A PILLAR OF SOCIETY

 

“And so the wolf lay with the lamb.”

 

~ Nenia Campbell ~

 

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ELIXIR

 

“I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.”

 

~ Ernest Renan ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a Roman glass bottle taken in July 1987.

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DEBAUCHED THEM ONE BY ONE

 

“…the human being, like the immortals,

naturally places sexual intercourse

far and away above all other joys –

yet he has left it out of his heaven!”

 

~ Mark Twain” ~

 

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

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A WALK DOWN LONELY STREET

 

“Lonely men with lonely eyes are seeking her in vain.”

 

~ Oscar Hammerstein II ~

 

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

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THE GREAT EQUALIZER

 

“The two most important days in your life

are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”

 

~ Mark Twain ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of Rodin’s sculpture Iris (detail) in the Musée Rodin taken in Paris in June 2019.

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CURLED IN THE AFTERGLOW

 

“I like my afterglow with you in motion.

I measure time by how your body sways.”

 

~ Jennifer Crusie ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of “aux bras levés,” (1890), a painting by Marie Laprade, taken in Paris in June 2019.

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THE ROOM NEXT DOOR

 

“One should always be in love.

That is the reason one should never marry.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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

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DRIFTIN’

 

“I’ve been drifting like a dream out on the sea,

I’ve been drifting in between you and me.”

 

~ Tim Buckley ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in November 2007.

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