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stargazing on midsummer common, after an evening of hiding knives and cabbages and drinking so many cups of tea, all to a soundtrack of a parakeet in a jungle.

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'During the transit strike in New York City, many people became hitchhikers. I picked up a South American. We got into a conversation. He turned out to be a composer whose principal hobby was hunting wild mushrooms.'

JOHN CAGE

#midsummer common #shooting stars

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I love this place. Good coffee, good bread, good fish, good memories. Really hope CP1 1PA is just as good a home.

#nord #cambridge #herring

I love this place. Good coffee, good bread, good fish, good memories. Really hope CP1 1PA is just as good a home.

pizza eating contest.

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'So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she eat: Earth felt the wound and nature from her seat Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe That all was lost. Back to the thicket slunk The guilty serpent and well might for Eve Intent now wholly on her taste naught else Regarded, such delight till then as seemed In fruit she never tasted whether true Or fancied so, through expectation high or knowledge, nor was godhead from her thought. Greedily she engorged without restraint And knew not eating death.' JOHN MILTON

#pizza #eating contest #cambridge

chinese couple taking wedding photos outside king's. blustery day makes for voluminous drama.

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'Up then, fair phoenix bride, frustrate the sun; Thyself from thine affection Takest warmth enough, and from thine eye All lesser birds will take their jollity. Up, up, fair bride, and call Thy stars from out their several boxes, take Thy rubies, pearls, and diamonds forth, and make Thyself a constellation of them all; And by their blazing signify That a great princess falls, but doth not die. Be thou a new star, that to us portends Ends of much wonder; and be thou those ends.'

JOHN DONNE

#cambridge #king's college #wedding #wedding dress

climbing logs and talking in the drizzle, hampstead heath.

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Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss'd cottage trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.

JOHN KEATS

#hampstead heath #log #hampstead

walking round the city. whitecross st market; hack the barbican, ending up at the gherkin. jack with jake & dinos chapman’s 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly'. looked better at jesus.

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'Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not.'

MARY SHELLEY

#jake & dinos chapman #dinosaur #sculpture in the city #london

myself, jonny and stefan at graduation. heavy shoulders, light faces.

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'Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.'

C S LEWIS

#graduation #cambridge #Girton College #furry hood

serpentine pavilion at night. rory, "i wanna see this in the rain".

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'A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.'

ROBERTSON DAVIES

#serpentine pavilion #hyde park #sou fujimoto #london

josh plays me 'when i am older' and now i know what they mean by a dartington moment.

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'Counting the wrinkles that live in my skin,

Sun on my shoulders and aging within

The sand in my pockets runs down to my feet

Keeping in time with the people I meet.'

JOSH HERRING

#when i am older #banjo #music #dartington #DISS2013 #josh herring and the steady hands #totnes #devon #steady hands

early evening sun in dartington, totnes. two magical weeks of music.

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'I am in love with music, I love music, I think of nothing but, and of other things only when they make music more beautiful for me. Take note, I am composing love songs again, not to A-Z, but to music. If it continues like this I may evaporate into a chord and float off into the air.'

JOHANNES BRAHMS

#dartington #diss2013 #totnes

children playing in a sand womb, Kagome sandbox, MQ, Vienna.

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'I'm thinking about babies. Emma's baby. Jack and my baby. Growing in my mind, if not in my womb.'

STEVEN HERRICK

#womb #nursery #sand #children #vienna #museum quartier #kagome

cycling down the danube, vienna.

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'Muddy yellow is the water that grows murky at the bottom of these [the Strudlhof] steps'.

CLAUDIO MAGRIS

#danube #river #cycling #vienna #austria

barbicoin

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barbicoin, by Mark Seow, Jack Rans and Josh Herring

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The Totnes pound is an alternative local currency, intended to support the local economy of Totnes, a town in Devon, England.

The initiative is part of the Transition Towns concept, of which Totnes is a pioneer. According to the Transition Town Totnes website this means that it is "a community in a process of imagining and creating a future that addresses the twin challenges of diminishing oil and gas supplies and climate change, and creates the kind of community that we would all want to be part of".

#money #two pence #ketchup #barbicoin #barbican

rory walking in the light snow

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'Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn - that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness - that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.'

JANE AUSTEN

#Girton College #Walk #snow