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August 28, 2024 Street Scenes

No more milk shakes here

“Truth, sir is a cow that will yield no more milk,
And so they’ve gone out to milk the bull.”

(Samuel Johnson)
Liège (B)

July 31, 2024 Culture of Industry

Put out one’s tongue at the safety measures

“Yes, I have a thousand tongues,
And nine and ninety-nine lie.
Though I strive to use the one,
It will make no melody at my will,
But is dead in my mouth.”

(St. Crane, no title in The Black Riders and Other Lines, no. 4)
Maastricht (NL)

July 13, 2024 Street Scenes

The eye that never sleeps

“Close thine eyes and sleep secure,
Thy soul is safe, thy body sure;
He that guards thee, He that keeps,
Never slumbers, never sleeps.”

(Fr. Quarles in A good night)
Yvoz-Ramet (B)

July 8, 2024 Culture of Industry

Only one open door in the “Grauzone”

Maastricht (NL)

March 16, 2024 Culture of Industry

The door to darkness

“Aber die Dunkelheit hält alles an sich:
Gestalten und Flammen, Tiere und mich,
wie sie’s errafft,
Menschen und Mächte. –“

(R.M. Rilke in Das Buch vom mönchischen Leben)
Seraing (B)

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No more milk shakes here

Put out one’s tongue at the safety measures

The eye that never sleeps

Only one open door in the “Grauzone”

The door to darkness