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Grey zone

“And pray to God to have mercy upon us
And I pray that I may forget …”

(T.S. Eliot in Ash-Wednesday)
Liège (B)

“They gave him dope to smoke, drinks and pills
A jeep to drive, blood to spill

They said “Congratulations, you got what it takes”
They sent him back into the rat race without any brakes

He was a clean-cut kid
But they made a killer out of him
That’s what they did”

(Bob Dylan in Clean cut kid)
Sint-Pieters-Leeuw (B)

Is this where it is?
“Because something is happening here
But you don’t know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones?”

(Bob Dylan in Ballad of a thin man)
Herstal (B)

"It is sweet to sit in a corner to muse 
and write in rhymes that you are all my world."

(R. Tagore in The gardener no. 46)
Herstal (B)

“Let me glide noiselessly forth;
With the key of softness unlock the locks — with a whisper,
Set open the doors, O Soul!”

(W. Whitman in The last invocation)
Saint Nicolas-Tilleur (B)