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Morimoto Hiromitsu, Untitled (platinum print, 1989/1994)

from here

The climbing of a mountain reflects redemption. That is due to the force of the word above and the power of the word up. Even those who have long ceased to believe in Heaven and Hell, cannot exchange the words above and below.

Erhart Kästner, from Olberge Weinberge (1960)

Quoted in Mark Z. Danielewski, House of leaves (Anchor 2000), who identifies the author as Erich Kästner – see here

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John Jude Palencar

Richard Tennant Cooper (1885-1957), A giant claw

A giant claw pierces the breast of a sleeping woman, another woman swoops down and stabs the claw with a knife – symbolising science's fight against cancer.

via here

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Irish Thorn Brooch

On these occasions I usually visited the lapidarium installed there in the sixties and spent hours looking at the mineral samples in the glass cases —pyrite crystals, deep green Siberian malachites, specimens of Bohemian mica, granite, quartz, and limestone of an isabelline yellow hue — wondering at the nature of the foundations on which our world is built.

W.G. Sebald, from Austerlitz (Hamish Hamilton 2001)

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Choquequirao (Perú)

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May Andersen | Plein Sud (1998) ph. Paolo Roversi

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Masao Yamamoto.

Some say the Phoenicians came to these isles long ago in ships with golden hawk-winged sails, and in niches on the shore left beads of sardonyx, blue ceramics, nutmeg husks, and strange gods. Some say the ships came from farther beyond, from the ports of Babylon, from the coasts of Mesopotamia.

Mark Valentine, opening lines to Fortunes told: Fresh samphire in Lost estates (Swan River Press 2024)