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Courtship Season (European Bee-eater)
.A pair of European Bee-eaters (Merops apiaster), feeding, Ariège, France.The female (in front) awaits the offering which the male will make: photo by Pierre Dalous, 28 May 2012he feeds the biggest...
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White Hands
.White-handed Gibbon (Hylobates lar), Kaeng Krachan National Park, Phetchaburi, Thailand: photo by JJ Harrison, 23 November 2012rain forest white knuckles grasping the branchvivid flurry of...
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Walter Benjamin: Journalism
.Flown large commercial corner cover carried by Charles A. Lindbergh, Chief Pilot, CAM-2, from Chicago to St. Louis, on the opening day of the route, 15 April 1926. Contractor: Robertson Aircraft...
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Jack Kerouac: Three Haiku (A Poetry Comic by Nora Sawyer)
. Jack Kerouac: Three Haiku, A Poetry Comic fromNora Sawyer, 14 April 2013
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Marie Wintzer: Bokeh / Aberration
.Bokeh / Aberration: photo by Marie Wintzer, 15 April 2013DeviationDisplacementOddityDeparture fromDisturbanceUnsoundnessDivergenceDisorderPeculiarityDistortion For TC ...inspired by plum blossoms,...
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Jim Dine: Occurring without / definite aim
.Soon Harvest Would: -- She was gentle as Wind through the Wheat -- I knew when She was here, I could sense Her warm presence -- a mesmerizing Breath -- In the summer Nights when the Soil sweats away...
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Robert Herrick: To Groves
.Paper Bark tree (Melaleuca quinquenervia), Australian native, Sao Paulo, Brazil: photo by mauroguarandi, 29 November 2009 Yee silent shades, whose each tree hereSome Relique of a Saint doth weare:Who...
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Bugs ate this lake clean
.Tessellated pavement sunrise landscape, Hobart, Tasmania: photo by JJ Harrison, 28 January 2009Beingis dyingby loving*To live in the world as it is& save your soul too is a lot to do*Bugsate this...
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"The green world thinks the sun..."
.Study of the Sky at Sunset: Eugène Delacroix, 1849, pastel on grey paper, 190 x 240 mm (Musée du Louvre, Paris)The greenworldthinks the sunInto one flower, then outraces It to the sea in sunken...
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Marguerite Yourcenar: The School of Seville
.Cup of Water and a Rose on a Silver Plate: Francisco de Zurbarán (1598-1664), c. 1630, oil on canvas, 21.2 x 30.1 cm (National Gallery, London)The painting of Seville (and we may put under this rubric...
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Guillaume Apollinaire: La Jolie Rousse (The Pretty Redhead)
.Tears of a Pyromaniac: photo by _Bernie_, 19 June 2012I stand here in the sight of everyone a man full of senseKnowing life and knowing of death what a living man can knowHaving gone through the...
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Bounce
.A bouncing ball captured with a stroboscopic flash at 25 images per second. Note that the ball becomes significantly non-spherical after each bounce, especially after the first. That, along with spin...
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The Warp (I'm on an Island)
.Canary Islands. The rugged landscape of the Canary Islands stood out in sharp contrast to the smooth blue waters of the Atlantic Ocean and the flat tan land of northwestern Africa on 21 December 2011,...
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Christina Georgina Rossetti: A House of Cards
. The HouseofCards: Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin (1699-1779), 1736-1737, oil on canvas, 60 x 72 cm (National Gallery, London) A houseofcards...Is neat and small: Shake the table, ...It must fall. Find...
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Profane Illumination (The Card Sharps)
.Cheater with the Ace of Diamonds: Georges de La Tour (1593-1652), 1635, oil on canvas, 106 x 46cm (Musée du Louvre, Paris) La Tour’s gambling pictures are rather different in atmosphere and intent....
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Civilization
.Natura Morta (Still Life): Giorgio Morandi, 1943, oil on canvas, 22.8 x 35.3 cm(Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden/Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.)After inside upheavals, it is important...
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Marie Wintzer: Sight
. Marie Wintzer: image and text from The Six Senses According to Mila -- Part II: Sight: inMarie's Mail Box, 13 April 2013aEtheR: photo by Marie Wintzer, 25 April 2013 -- A colourless volatile highly...
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Raymond Williams: Language and the Avant-Garde
.Childhood's Soul. I grew up in a beautiful small town. There were rivers, mountains and waterfalls all around and I am the happiest when I am there. I moved to the city when I was a teen and now I'm...
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Jim Dine: On Pain
.An abandoned "Giant Slide" at Coney Island: photo by Arthur Tress, May 1973 for the Environmental Protexction Agency's Documerica project (US National Archives)As much as he hadwhen she was buried...
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Future
.View of West of Delhi (and air pollution). I think Delhi is one of the few big capitals with so few towers. Taken from Jama Masjit: photo by Jean-Etienne Minh-Duy Poirrier, 12 January 20116 October...
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