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"It was in vain that I lingered before the hawthorns."
About Me
- Gary Scudder
- Burlington, Vermont, United States
- As Lucinda Williams reminds us: "In the silence of the roses Words fell"
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Words (Between the Lines of Age)
"To think a flower is to see and smell it, And to eat a fruit is to know its meaning."
Fernando Pessoa,
"Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man's mad desire become his god?"
Virgil, Aeneid
Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past
"This is the way the gods ordained the destiny of men, to bear such burdens in our lives, while they feel no affliction."
Homer, The Iliad
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On the Nightstand
- Thomas Mann, Magic Mountain
- Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem
- George Eliot, Middlemarch
- Fernando Pessoa, A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe
3 comments:
Looking at these instantly took me back to my mornings on Zanzibar 4 summers ago. They're really beautiful; glad you posted them.
Thanks, Trish. This is just another example of the idiot-proof brilliance of digital cameras - you just keep snapping away and by definition some of them turn out OK.
Beautiful!
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