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March 4, 2012 Culture of industry - steel industry Post a Comment

The sad roof

"No smoke spreads out of this chimney-pot,
The people who lived here have left the spot,
And others are coming who knew them not."

(Thomas Hardy in Starlings on the roof)
Huy (B)

February 26, 2012 Culture of industry - steel industry Post a Comment

Looking through hollow windows

“There’s no glass in the window,
There’s no wood in the door;
The heather grows behind the house,
And the sand lies before.
No hand hath trained the ivy,
The walls are gray and bare …”

(M.Coleridge in The deserted house)
Huy (B)

January 22, 2012 What has been left Post a Comment

Demolition

"Was sich ins Bleiben verschließt, schon ists das Erstarrte;
wähnt es sich sicher im Schutz des unscheinbaren Grau's? 
Warte, ein Härtestes warnt aus der Ferne das Harte. 
Wehe -: abwesender Hammer holt aus!"

(R.M. Rilke in Wolle, die Wandlung)
Huy (B)

January 1, 2012 Street scenes - buildings Post a Comment

Votre décorateur

"Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good;
A shining gloss that vadeth suddenly;
A flower that dies when first it 'gins to bud;
A brittle glass that 's broken presently:
A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower,
Lost, vaded, broken, dead within an hour."

(W. Shakespeare in The passionate pilgrim)
Huy (B)

December 29, 2011 Religious objects Post a Comment

“With my own two hands
I can make peace on earth
With my own two hands
I can clean up the earth
With my own two hands
I can reach out to you
With my own two hands
With my own … ”

(Jack Johnson in With my own two Hands)
Thimister (B)

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