The Oxen Years

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“Weakness is a great thing, and strength is nothing. When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is hard and insensitive. When a tree is growing, it's tender and pliant.” https://www.instagram.com/p/CDhLf8wn5_k/?igshid=3elupaphbeqk

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„I write with my ears. For pneumatic actors. In ancient Arabic manuscripts the periods are marked by respiratory suns... To breathe, to lung!” Valère Novarina (at Riga, Latvia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDTAZc8ndCA/?igshid=z4auqcjm8wwn

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“If a well is really deep, you can see a star down there even in the middle of a sunny day.” #andreitarkovsky #ivanschildhood #vistulariver (at Rio Vistula, Varsovia) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-C4yrgH-AS/?igshid=5e32v1sssfkh

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“Now even during day time, the grown-ups ar sitting behing closed shutters, waiting for news about the Messiah. But these news from the outside world come late, behind time...” Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob. #socialdistancing #isolation #tokarczuk #onacoldcoldnight #sundaynight (at Oxford, England - UK) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9xTPJSHNeK/?igshid=1dg1ucctrhssg

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“The entire world joins me today in inertia and enthropy.” MJ Pilfer (at Plac Unii) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9r3N7fHO3H/?igshid=mu50ht7igz3g

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“The thirty-two chapters of a novel—if we consider how to read a novel first—are an attempt to make something as formed and controlled as a building: but words are more impalpable than bricks; reading is a longer and more complicated process than seeing.” #virginiawoolf #backincollege #afterlaunchtea (at Brasenose College) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9jIbHLHBjH/?igshid=67jlzl1x02st

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“Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.” #HermannBroch #Warsaw (at Warsaw, Poland) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7Gdb8OnfAU/?igshid=1c1ssmfvdyzm0

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And so the two years of masters at Oxford end with a final piece of advice on bending. Will try and remember. But the results: to look, or not to look? (at University of Oxford) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6RDk-ZnmLO/?igshid=1xo4a853ukqgl

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“When the evening is spread out against the sky;” #frommywindow #evening #waldenpond #forest https://www.instagram.com/p/B1mZxg0HUeP/?igshid=amisj52864ut

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"Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving." (at Wrzeszcz, Gdansk, Poland) https://www.instagram.com/p/B08y1SgH2hL/?igshid=fk9nv443ho7h

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„Roads go ever ever on Under cloud and under star, Yet feet that wandering have gone Turn at last to home afar.” After two years and many kilometres driving through the heatwave stricken continent, finally, back home. (at Gdansk, Poland) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0taV4RHlsI/?igshid=1hk8k5gktv9o8

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“I sometimes wonder about all the feelings and thoughts that fall into nothingness and leave no trace. They fall like leaves from the trees, but they are not always transformed into fertilising fermentatation, new thoughts and feelings to be born from them.” Iwaszkiewicz (at Poland) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0as2yYHlEX/?igshid=vc1fgguagfie

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“I’ll miss you, you know.” Forget where this one’s from. (at Port of Dover) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0Q1szPHrOE/?igshid=dhaci8ssq3h

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“When less than everything has been said about a subject, you can still think on further." A. Tarkovsky https://www.instagram.com/p/BzIME4iHg7n/?igshid=fg7m39lgolnx

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Where they should be: #filmshoots https://www.instagram.com/p/BzGIkw2nVa_/?igshid=d84arx67t6kr

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'More of that!' Misako threw down the cloth she had been fingering in her lap and went on to the window. 'Hiroshi, suppose you take the dogs over there. We can't talk for the noise.' (at Christ Church, Oxford) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByqEiKGnJn1/?igshid=1fnk7ulyyn2na

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Finally, back on the river. (at Port Meadow, Oxford) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx8G4KVnYhZ/?igshid=12t8net2eqr07