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there was a sign beside some roadworks which read: 'Crossing prohibited', and an arrow indicating a new temporary crossing. Celestino went fifteen yards out of his way in order deliberately to cross at the forbidden point. There is legality and illegality even in the smallest things.

- Henry de Motherlant, Chaos and Night.

After Tashi died, ..., Chinese security forces set up roadblocks at the three entrances to his village....The second night, when there were no crowds about, men came to help Tashi's uncle take his body across a nearby river and through the grasslands to a holy mountain. There they lit fires to work by and made preparations for a traditional "sky burial," in which bodies are left for vultures and other scavengers. Sky burials are still performed in some Tibetan areas where the frozen ground is too hard to dig and where, according to Buddhist precepts, the dead body is regarded as a spent vessel. The spirit of the deceased, it is thought, has already moved on and its progress will be helped by offering wild creatures a meal. The ceremony is called <i>jhator</i>, which means "alms for the birds". -Jeffrey Bartholet on the self-immolation of Tsering Tashi.

Too often by a twist of thought, we tend to reduce what is strange to what is familiar. I intend to restore the familiar to the strange. -Magritte

#magritte #strange

Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

Shel Silverstein

We would not have allowed our fathers, brothers, male comrades, or lovers to continue to believe they love us when they hurt us again and again. Men do not wound women only when they act violently and abusively. They wound us when they fail to protect our freedom in every aspect of our daily lives. -bell hooks

Like so much else, people have also misunderstood the place of love in life, they have made it into play and pleasure because they thought that play and pleasure was more blissful than work; but there is nothing happier than work, and love, just because it is the extreme happiness, can be nothing else but work. -Rainer Maria Rilke

#work #love #happiness

Feminist critiques of love made it difficult for progressive, powerful women to speak about the place of love in our lives. This silence has undermined the freedom of all females to be self-actualized, which women's liberation first championed. While feminist thinkers and activists were right to rip apart and throw away outmoded, patriarchal ways of thinking about love and romance, girls and women still need to fill the gap with new liberatory visions full of hope and promise. -bell hooks

Alexander Calder

#calder

Mesmerized by sunshine, glassware, and a sweet song.

#vikesh kapoor

Just about every Montparnassian had his portrait drawn or painted by Modigliani. And there were few who did not clink glasses with him at least once. Everyone liked him -- the owner of the hotel in which he lived, his hairdresser, the people in the bistros. They all have pictures by him or pleasant memories of him....even the policeman who locked him up when he got drunk...Dear old Modigliani could not have dreamed up a better public than the one he had during the war. -Basler

#modigliani #the good life

#summer

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