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“Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea”
– Dylan Thomas
“Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
“I pulled out the letter. It was a receipt for putting my little dog to sleep. When I realized what they’d done, I think I screamed…I believe that this was the moment the world lost me, for pain quickly turned to fury.”
– Edward Bunker, Education of a Felon
“Winter was gray and mean upon the city and every night was a package of cold bleak hours, like the hours in a cell that had no door.”
– David Goodis, Of Tender Sin
“I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.”
-Jorge Luis Borges
A Day in the Brine 
great abstracts!! and quotes!! Is the first one the shadow of a tap?
Greetings! Thank you! The first one, bizarrely, is of a strange bauble the cat blissfully destroyed after I took the photo. It was a plastic flower that would “dance” via solar energy. It was moving very slowly when I took the photo because of the weak, dull light of a fabulously dingy day trying to squeeze through the frosted glass.
Here is a picture via Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Solar-Powered-Dancing-Flower-Green/dp/B003BWQ4M2
LOL! Yes I’ve seen those!! Wonderful!! and I know those fabulously dingy days well living here on the west coast!! I love the description!
Haha! The blasted things have peppered the country with their peppy little sun-fueled dances. Luckily, the cat is just as villainous as I am and decided the bright, smiley thing was to be disposed of. I found the poor trinket in pieces a little later. The dancing-flower-owner, Sir, was devastated. The cat and I grinned surreptitiously to each other. Pride gleamed in his leopard eyes.
Ah yes, dingy days! They are a bit of a rarity here in Florida, I confess despairingly. I love such days. I must crawl out there to the West Coast sometime soon. JUST my kind of weather 😉 Too many grins to count.
Autumn Jade
summer is fine here!! 🙂
Fabulous! Perfect biking weather all the time, I imagine.
I’ve always wanted to experience a cold and swirling fog, gasping hoary off the gelid, hurtling waves of the Pacific. I have wanted to perch on some loose and wobbly stone, leering over the charcoaled edge, watching the fog clambering up the cliffs, emerging from the howling waters like some kind of creature. I want to see it bleed into the city as it meets and smothers a stark and silvery fascade of skyscraper. How divine to see it swim into the great fists of dark, angry cloud gathering overhead…
I seem to have gotten carried away…
I’m rather fond of misty old bogs myself. A beautiful piece of prose my friend that paints a perfect picture of the West coast not only of Canada but also Scotland where Selkies do emerge! 😀
Scotland, to me, sounds like the ultimate paradise. I think I would fit right in with those dashing, sleek-faced Selkies. I get mistaken for all kinds of sea-life by the surfers all the time. 😉 Cheers!
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we do understand the evildoer and that’s why we obliterate him from society… simple.
So it goes…
I especially like the last quote!!! Great photography.
Me too! 😉 Thank you for the kind words and for drizzling by, dear friend. Cheers!
Autumn Jade
Love the quotes, and your photographs are excellent – loads of scope for the imagination!
Thank you! Appreciate the kind words. Thanks for sluicing by. Best wishes,
Autumn Jade
I think I’m stuck for words … Beautiful pics and prose.
Thanks so much! Delighted you found them so. Thank you for cursitating by. Smiling cheers,
Autumn Jade
PS Dylan Thomas and Oscar Wilde are sublime!!
That they are! I managed to stagger over the book of Dylan Thomas’ complete works in a retro-shoppe one evening, and of course, could not live without it. The wife of the owner saw me extract it from the shelf and exclaimed to her foggy-eyed, bearded beloved, “YOU never told ME you had that book of Dylan Thomas! You KNOW I love him!” He sort of stammered incomprehensibly and toyed with the record cover of the “Easy Riders” soundtrack. My grip tightened around the book and I leered menacingly like a stone-creature at the woman. She entreated me with a glance of painful desiderium, her shoulders sinking, her knees crumbling, her glittery outfit flashing like a dress of doleful raindrops. Had I been a kindergartner, (when I was a far better version of myself), I would have respectfully bequeathed it to her and blinked back the ensuing tears. But I’m no kindergartner and NOTHING was going to get between my curled-white, sharp and bony fingers and Thomas’ droopy, pouting face blinking out at the world through eternity in a book cover. The woman was devastated but there was no remorse in me! I stomped out into the cold, stiff night, with poet Thomas safely under-arm, in victory, the sounds of “The Weight” by Smith percolating in the incandescent glow of the shoppe behind me. And I’ve long been enchanted with the works of Wilde, but of course. A hero to me. I sometimes painfully wish he could have written more novels. Brilliant minds, indeed. I don’t know why I keep barraging you with these incessant ramblings…blast…
Cheers!
Autumn Jade, smiling toad
a beautiful tale!! Ramble on!!!
Oh dear…do not encourage me…
Have you heard of a blogger, Marsha Lee, of tchistorygal.com/? I have written…very embarrassingly long comments there because she dared to encourage the babbling dragon in me…TROUBLE. I have warned you 😉
Oh, “a cell with no door” just doesn’t bear thinking about! Great images, AJ, and carefully chosen quotes. I rather love the idea of paradise being a library. 🙂
As do I. 😉
Thanks for raining by and leaving such kind words. Smiling cheers and a joyous weekend to you,
Autumn Jade
Love the way the green blurry bottle manages to fit right in. Quite a little ride down an odd slide here! Thanks!
I have to readily agree there- quite an odd assortment of images. In one of my experimental modes 😉 I don’t know why I like the simple image of the green bottle one so much. It was a Perrier Sir was drinking. He found it most irksome that I suddenly shot into the room, bolted up to his bottle and began snouting around with the pet camera clicking away by his arm. He was attempting to read a PDF on Autonomous Underwater Vehicles. I guess the pet camera clicking about 1,783 times was some sort of a distraction?
Thank you for drizzling by and having a look! Smiling cheers,
Autumn Jade
stunning photos….all of them.
Great quotes in this post, and great photographs overall. Thank you for the follow — if not for that, I don’t know how long it would have taken for me to accidentally venture here. 🙂 Looking forward to more!
I am delighted that you so enjoyed your visit. Thank you so much for the enchanting words of encouragement. Smiling cheers to you!
Autumn Jade
Beautiful set!!!
Thank you!
Superb work. Excellent compositions that are very effectively combined with quotations to create a thought provoking journey.
And it is really good too ! 😀
Thanks so much!!