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My Obsession
.The Eternal Feminine: Paul Cézanne, 1875-77, oil on canvas, 43.5 x 53.3 cm (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles)I knew the tuneIt was my songEven before you came alongYet only then did I perceive its...
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Late Summer Evening
.Summer Evening: Edward Hopper, 1947 (private collection)Take off that apronAnd put your red dress onNoOn second thoughtTake off that red dressAnd lay backOn my big brass bedIn your pink slipThe one...
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Achtung! (The New Great Wall of Europe)
.Matthias Schrader/AP PhotoA woman walks on the railway track on her way to a temporary holding centre for migrants after crossing the borderline between Serbia and Hungary near Roszke, southern...
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On the Great Hungarian Plain
.View of the Great Hungarian Plain with Draw Well: Karoly Markó the Elder, 1853, oil on canvas, 41 x 53 cm (Magyar Nemzeti Galéria, Budapest)Miklós Radnóti: Postcard 2...
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The Stations of the Forced Wanderer (Nâzim Hikmet Ran: 20 September 1945)
.Hungarian border police stand guard opposite refugees standing behind a fence at the Hungarian border with Serbia near the town of Horgos on Wednesday: photo by Armend Nimani/AFP, 16 September...
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Chaos at Tavornik Station (On the New Route to Europe) / Joseph Ceravolo: Der...
.Ahmed was bussed from #Serbia to #Croatia -- now worried he'll be stuck here @AJEnglish #refugeecrisis: image via Mohamed Jamjoom @MIJamjoom, 17 September 2015Joseph Ceravolo: Der...
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Barricade (Nâzim Hikmet Ran: Faust's House)
.TURKEY - Migrants wait at Istanbul's Esenler Bus Terminal in front of a police barricade. By Yasin Akgul #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 September 2015Nâzim Hikmet Ran: Faust's...
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Wislawa Szymborska: Children of Our Age ("To acquire a political meaning /...
.#Drone pic of refugees at #Bregana crossing between Croatia and #Slovenia: image via Oliver Varney @Oliver Varney, 19 September 2015We are children of our age, it’s a political age.All day long, all...
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Migrants on death path through the ruins: Wislawa Szymborska: "I don't seek...
.death path [Syria]: image by baraa al-halabi, 20 September 2015Wislawa Szymborska:Conversation with a StoneI knock at the stone’s front door."It’s only me, let me come in. I want to enter your...
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In Darkness: Joseph Ceravolo: The pains of children / Baraa Al-Halabi: The...
. Air raid by government forces on the city of Aleppo: image via baraa al halabi @baraaalhalabi, 20 September 2015 Baraa Al-Halabi: Today in AleppoThe most important message in the field of photography...
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Beyond the Numbers: Wislawa Szymborska: A Word on Statistics / Bálint...
. Buthena, housewife, Odell Tam, Damascus, Syria: photo by Bálint Pörneczi via mno, 21 September 2015Wislawa Szymborska: A Word on StatisticsOut of every hundred people,those who always know...
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Attila József: Lullaby / Helen Percival: A Long Walk / Prayers of the People...
.Szerb-horvát szájkarate, rekordszámú menekült, drótakadály a szlovén határon: image via Index,hu @indexhu, 25 September 2015AttilaJózsef: LullabyThe sky has shut its eyes of blue, the house has shut...
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Easy To Forget
.Refugees and migrants arrive on the shore of the Greek island of Lesbos after crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey on Monday: photo by Aris Messinis/AFP, 28 September 2015Not in the same boat, never...
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Diesel; or, Inexplicable Safety Measures Must Be Good Or Why Would We Have...
.Inexplicable safety billboard. Carvers, Nevada: photo by efo, 2015How Volkswagen Got Away With Diesel Deception: New York Times International Edition, 28 September 2015 Volkswagen said on Monday that...
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Progress
.An Afghan girl sheds a tear upon her arrival with other refugees and migrants to the Greek island of Lesbos after crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey on Tuesday: photo by Aris Messinis/AFP, 29...
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Civilizations
.It was agreed to the destruction of Syria: image via baraa al halabi @baraaalhalabi, 1 October 2015 There's little question that Russia is determined to re-establish Assad as Syria’s leader: image via...
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Aris Messinis: This week on Lesvos / George Seferis: from 'Thrush': "Light,...
.Refugees and migrants arrive at the Greek island of Lesvos after crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey: image via Aris Messinis @ArisMessinis, 30 September 2015Light, angelic and blackbreaks through...
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War
.Latest update #Kunduz: 12 MSF staff killed (same as previous update) + 10 patients (up from 7 yesterday): image via MSF International @MSF, 4 October 2015The desert moves, then stops. It is a museum...
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The exhausted voyager makes landfall (from Chapman's Odyssey)
.A refugee sleeps outside an abandoned building at the port of Mytilini, Lesbos island, Greece on Tuesday: photo by Santi Palacios/AP, 6 October 2015Two nights yet, and daies, He spent in wrestling...
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Joseph Ceravolo: October 5, 1986 ("Set us free, set us free")
.Scenic route along the Garden State Parkway of New Jersey in Cape May County: postcard, issued c. 1930-1945 (The Tichnor Brothers Collection, Boston Public Library) Route 3 and lonelycloudless sky...
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