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 . . . moved by fancies that are curled
 Around these images, and cling:

                                                                                        (T. S.Eliot, "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock")

I am trying to decipher the language of insects
they are the tongues of the future
                                                                                (W. S.  Merwin, "After the Alphabets")

Gallery  (Painting 19th Century), 
Boy in the Window (Lee Freindlander,  Photograph,  1962.)

    How sad the flesh! and there’s no more to read.
                                                                                  (Stephane Mallarme, " Sea Breeze")

 

     

 

A tool handle is often as beautiful as a piece of sculpture, not because it is looked at as though it were sculpture, but because of its fascinating adaptation to the hand.
                                                                               
(Leo Stein, ABC of Aesthetics, 260)

The Scholars Tour Ghent
AILA Conference Multiliteracies (Bart Bonamie, Photograph, 2003)

 

 

 

 

 

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