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Tell-Time Heart. Basilique du Sacré-Coeur from Gare d'Orsay, Paris, France

Do you remember that psychological thriller by Edgar Allen Poe, 'The Tell-Tale Heart' (1843)? Recall the element of time between the thumping of the murderer's heart and the imagined heart of his victim hidden under his floor boards...

Well, if you do, then you will understand immediately what went through my own mind when I saw this scene. This photo was taken 'through' the old clock of the famous railway station Gare d'Orsay, now a wonderful musuem. In the distance is one of Paris's many icons, the relatively new Basilica of the Sacred Heart...

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Uploaded on September 3, 2021
Taken on September 3, 2021