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Staircase of the Bavarian State Library - built between 1832-1841 - Munich - Germany
Again a moment of perfect light in this splendid library.
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Sony A7R III - Voigtländer Hyper Wide Heliar - 10 mm - f 11 - 0,4 s - ISO 100 - singleshot , no HDR
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Rivage mystique
« L’incompréhensible semble bien nous faire signe du fond des paysages. C’est le noyau de l’expérience de la beauté du monde. » Alexandre Lacroix, philosophe
Ce paysage chaotique m’hypnotisait
Comme si je l’avais toujours connu,
Mais, pourtant, jamais vu.
Il était ni beau ou charmant,
Ni laid ou terrifiant
Plutôt terriblement inhumain,
Antérieur à la vie elle-même,
Dont on voyait des traces éparses
Accrochées aux rugosités des rochers.
Je pouvais le voir, le toucher, le ressentir sous mes pieds
Sentir l’air salin
Regarder danser des nuages improbables
Entendre les chants de la Terre
Jouer les harmoniques élémentaires.
Et pourtant, je ne trouvais pas les mots
Pour expliquer l’attirance étrange que ce paysage avait sur moi.
Un peu comme un savoir qui se cherche
Dans des origines impénétrables, lointaines et indicibles,
Dont nous portons des traces.
L’orage approchait, menaçant
Et le mystère m’enveloppa.
Patrice photographiste, Chroniques du Monde de Poësia
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Mystics Shores
“The incomprehensible seems to beckon us from the background of the landscapes. It is the core of the experience of the beauty of the world” - Alexandre Lacroix, philosopher
This chaotic landscape hypnotized me
As if I had always known it,
But, yet, never seen.
It was neither beautiful or charming,
Neither ugly or terrifying
Rather terribly inhuman,
Anterior to life itself,
Of which we saw scattered traces
Clinging to the roughness of the rocks.
I could see it, touch it, feel it under my feet
Smell the salty air
Watch unlikely clouds dance
Hear the songs of the Earth
Play the elementary harmonics.
And yet I couldn't find the words
To explain the strange attraction that this landscape had on me.
A bit like a knowledge that seeks itself
In impenetrable, distant and unspeakable origins,
Of which we bear traces.
The storm was approaching, threatening
And mystery enveloped me.
Patrice photographer, Chronicles of the Lands of Poësia
Imagination is more important than knowledge because knowledge is limited whereas imagination encompasses the whole world.
― Jimi Hendrix
“Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry,
the philosophy which does not laugh
and the greatness which does not bow before children.”
― Kahlil Gibran, Mirrors of the Soul
Blog Post
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The tree of knowledge, connecting to heaven and the underworld, and the tree of life, connecting all forms of creation,
are both forms of the world tree or cosmic tree,
and are portrayed in various religions and philosophies as the same tree
Continuing with my Positive Flags of the Nations project.
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This is probably my personal favourite shot taken on my recent trip to the Faroe Islands. Since the country remains largely unexplored I didn't have much prior knowledge regarding the landscape and photographic locations, excepting a few popular spots, so much of my photography was completely spontaneous.
This unexpected location literally took my breath away a soon as I stumbled upon it. I decided to go for an exploration of the northern isles by car since it was a pretty wet and windy day, so the island of Kunoy was one of those island destinations. This is the most mountainous island of all in the Faroes, with six mountains rising higher than 800 meters.
The nakesake village, pictured here, is the oldest settlement on the island. This location literally blew my breath away. I didn't expect it to be so spectacular, with the spate river Myllá thundering between the quaint Faroese houses, all nestled beneath an arena of moody and majestic mountains.
It was a pretty difficult image to execute as it was relentlessly raining, but I managed to capture a couple of shots whilst keeping the lens dry.
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
Albert Camus
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
John Milton
Any fool can make a rule
And any fool will mind it.
Thoreau
No-one is free when others are opressed.
Anon
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The library at Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, The Netherlands.
Overall design: (2010): Dirk Jan Postel, Kraaijvanger architects.
Library design (2016): Andrea Milani.
is to know the extent of one's ignorance :-)
Confucius
HFF!!
cercis, white redbud, sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
Library of Birmingham, Birmingham
This was just a test shot ahead of my planned evening shoot, but to be honest I prefer this daytime version on account that the colours show up better, especially the middle mustard section and roof cylinder. And the new pool does lend itself for some great reflections.
"Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.'
- Miles Kington
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It’s important to know who you are. At least until you figure out that who you are has nothing to do with anything you think about that.
- Story of the Day - By Brian Andreas
Harrow school library. The Vaughan Library is over 150 years old and was designed in Victorian Gothic style by George Gilbert Scott, who also conceived St Pancras Station in London. Refurbished and enlarged 23 years ago, it is staffed today by qualified librarians and open daily for boys to study, browse and enjoy a quiet space.
Forboding, expectant? or just a beautiful soul warmed by the light...this is one of those photoshop as therapy things...maybe I should just take it down...? I'm feeling a little intense these days...
"Eye contact is way more intimate than words will ever be." - Faraaz Kazi
"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness ; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone" ~ Audrey Hepburn~
My attempt with Black Dragon, thank god for Tutorials LOL
🎼: Bette Davis Eyes ~ Kim Carnes~
Her hair is Harlow gold
Her lips a sweet surprise
Her hands are never cold
She's got Bette Davis eyes
She'll turn her music on you
You won't have to think twice
She's pure as New York snow
She got Bette Davis eyes
And she'll tease you, she'll unease you
All the better just to please you
She's precocious, and she knows just what it
Takes to make a pro blush
She got Greta Garbo's standoff sighs, she's got Bette Davis eyes
She'll let you take her home
It whets her appetite
She'll lay you on a throne
She got Bette Davis eyes
She'll take a tumble on you
Roll you like you were dice
Until you come out blue
She's got Bette Davis eyes
She'll expose you, when she snows you
Offer feed with the crumbs she throws you
She's ferocious and she knows just what it
Takes to make a pro blush
All the boys think she's a spy, she's got Bette Davis eyes
"The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."
- Albert Einstein
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Zanda Earth Forest (or Zanda Tulin). Zanda County, Ngari Prefecture, Xizang Autonomous Region, China. March 2022.
Squonk - Genesis / A Trick of the Tail, 1976
Now listen here, listen to me, don't you run away now. I am a friend, I'd really like to play with you, making noises my little furry friend would make. I'll trick him, then I'll kick him into my sack. You better watch out, you better watch out. I've got you, I've got you, you'll never get away. Walking home that night, the sack across my back, the sound of sobbing on my shoulder, when suddenly it stopped. I opened up the sack, all that I had a pool of bubbles and tears, just a pool of tears. Just a pool of tears. All in all you are a very dying race, placing trust upon a cruel world. You never had the things you thought you should have had and you'll not get them now. And all the while in perfect time... your tears are falling on the ground.
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When I heard the Genesis album "A Trick of the Tail," I didn't understand the song "Squonk." I didn't understand what it was explaining exactly, or who the song was referring to. The neuron that fires in my brain to do something I enjoy, which is something like musical archaeology, disconnected for some reason. It stopped making synapses in my neural system, and I did nothing to find out what this song explained. A few years later, I became interested in a strange website called the Internet Archive, also known as archive.org for its internet address. This kind of digital internet library or website is established as a non-profit organization and is operated thanks to the efforts of people who volunteer their free time to make this website work. Explaining what the Internet Archive is isn't easy. It's an organization and a website that advocates for a free and open Internet, for the free flow of information, offering free access to collections of digitized materials, software applications, music, audiovisual materials, books, printed materials, and much more. It's especially important to websites that are closing and contain old digital material that would otherwise be lost. They try to preserve Internet content in this way, functioning as a "backup" of the Internet, making it possible to recover and view web pages that have disappeared or been deleted, thus eliminating the information they contained. It's a free, open library accessible to everyone. Its objective is to preserve human culture and knowledge. It's easy to get lost in it given the vast amount of information and materials available. You often search and get lost among so much material and find things you don't even know what they're for, or you find things that surprise you. You can even find software for your first Amstrad or Atari computer, which you bought in the 1990s. I highly recommend it. Here are the updated figures from Wikipedia about what you can find on the Internet Archive: 46 million printed materials, 15 million videos, 1.3 million software programs, 14 million audio files, 5.3 million images, 279,660 concerts, and more than 946 billion web pages in its Wayback Machine (a database containing copies of a huge number of Internet pages or sites). Does that seem like too little to you? Or do you think it's a place worth diving into to search and find the strangest things you can think of or look for? It's a kind of "grandmother's trunk" that holds everything. And it's the books section that I think is the best organized, where you can find books that no longer exist, that aren't published, or that you wouldn't even find in your local municipal library. There are millions of digitized books, where I've even found books that are impossible to find elsewhere. One day, while searching the book section, I accidentally found a book by Cox titled "Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods, With a Few Desert and Mountain Beasts." The book is like a fantasy field guide written in 1910 by William Thomas Cox. It's a book about legendary and strange creatures that are part of the legends of the forests of the United States and Canada, and especially of Pennsylvania. As field guides do with their scientific names, Cox's book includes the Latin nomenclature of the strange being (I imagine invented by Cox), its habitat, morphology, customs, and behaviors. If you decide to read it, keep one important thing in mind. You won't find a literary gem, for the simple reason that Cox only wrote two or three books in his life. Cox wasn't a writer; he was a forester, a person who dedicated himself to the cultivation and care of forests. But that is precisely his great merit, as, not a writer, but a forester, he wrote a book of legends about strange beings that is so interesting to read. You can find the book for free on the Internet Archive. It was while reading this book that I came across a chapter where it talks about a strange being, a legend... the legend of the Squonk, and I remembered the Genesis song, the meaning of which I hadn't understood. Reading this chapter, I managed to understand the song. Rather than describing what a Squonk is, I'll give you an excerpt from Cox's book, so you can perhaps better understand the lyrics of Genesis's Squonk song.
Squonk (Lacrimacorpus dissolvens.)
[...] The squonk is very shy in nature and generally travels near dusk or dawn. Because of its maladjusted skin, which is covered with warts and moles, it is always sad; in fact, it is said, by those better qualified to judge, to be the most morbid of beasts. Hunters who are good at tracking are able to follow a squonk by its tear-stained trail, for the animal weeps constantly. When cornered and escape seems impossible, or when surprised and frightened, it may even dissolve itself in tears. Squonk hunters are most successful on very cold, moonlit nights, when tears fall slowly and the animal does not like to come out; it can be heard crying beneath the branches of the dark hemlock trees. Mr. J. P. Wentling, formerly of Pennsylvania, who moved to Minnesota, had a failed experience with a squonk near Monte Alto. He planned a clever capture by tricking a squonk into jumping into a satchel he was carrying home, when suddenly the load lightened and the tears stopped. Wentling opened the satchel and looked inside. There was nothing there except a pool of tears.
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In the Xizang Autonomous Region of China, there are so-called "tulins" or earth forests.. These are geological formations that resemble forests due to their shapes created by erosion. The best known is the Zanda Forest in Ngari Prefecture, where the largest Tertiary layer of earth forests or geologic forests in the world is found. These are important geological information for understanding the evolution of our planet. They are partly similar to the Yadan, but have a structure and formation more similar to the Badlands due to their sedimentary stratification and deep gullies and ravines. In any case, all these types of geological landscapes have in common: aridity and the absence of life. There are no plants or animals, or they are practically nonexistent except for the occasional "clueless" scorpion. They are inhospitable lands, barren lands with little life. Perhaps that's why there was no way to find a Squonk in Zanda. He must have felt too sad and scared, faced with so much loneliness, aridity, and the absence of life, walking alone at twilight in a strange and gloomy place. Possibly the sadness generated by such an inhospitable place made him start to cry, and as the legend of the Squonk says... he disappeared due to that ability that Squonks have to dissolve into their own tears when they are cornered, scared, or sad. We'll have to go somewhere else to find a Squonk, perhaps in... Los Endos. Los Endos sounds like a word reminiscent of a Mexican border town. A small Mexican town that is a refuge for an evil band of outlaws who have the entire population terrified and scared. There is no life or people in the streets; everyone is kept indoors, fearful. A place with a name typical of a spaghetti western film plot shot in Almería in the Tabernas Desert and with a soundtrack by Ennio Morricone. Soon John Wayne will appear, who always fixes everything. The word and the song Los Endos by Génesis mean nothing; it has no translation. They simply tried to use the term "End" to title the last song on the album, "A Trick of the Tail." It could be something like Spanishifying the term "End." Surely Los Endos are somewhere where the world ends, where no one has gone, where our lost Squonk cries... at the end of the world. We'll have to go find our Squonk at... Los Endos.
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PS: If you ever get lost in life, don't hesitate to visit archive.org/. There... you're sure to find yourself... and you'll surely be in your corresponding section... well classified and labeled...
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"Diderot's celebrated Lettre sur les aveugles à l'usage de ceux qui voient ("Letter on the Blind") (1749), introduced him to the world as a daringly original thinker. The subject is a discussion of the interrelation between man's reason and the knowledge acquired through perception (the five senses)." Wikipedia
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"Ipsa scientia potestas est". The phrase “Knowledge is power” is commonly attributed to Francis Bacon,1597
I am beginning to wonder --
recently it seems the "power is power" and knowledge seems to have no place in American politics.
On Tuesday, the director of the US National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent, resigned over the war in Iran, urging Trump to "reverse course".
In a letter, Kent argued that Iran posed no imminent threat to the US, despite the administration's repeated claims to the contrary.
Recently, Donald Trump made several blunt comments about Joe Kent after Kent resigned from his role as director of the National Counterterrorism Center in March 2026.
What Trump said:
Trump dismissed Kent as “weak on security”.
He said it was “a good thing that he’s out” of the administration.
He criticised Kent’s judgement, saying people who think Iran isn’t a threat are “not smart” or “not savvy.”
Kent resigned in protest over the U.S. war with Iran, arguing the conflict was unnecessary and based on misleading information.
Trump, by contrast, has defended the war as necessary for national security and based on credible threats.
And the weirdest bit of all - - - Trump nominated Kent in February 2025 to be director of the National Counterterrorism Center.
"In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves."
Carl Sagan
The bible is a book of knowledge. It's teachings have brought much good to the world. #bible #knowledge
Irlanda, County Dublin, Dublino, Primavera 2023
Il Trinity College (irlandese: Coláiste na Tríonóide), è l'unico collegio costituente dell'Università di Dublino, un'università di ricerca a Dublino, Irlanda. La regina Elisabetta I fondò il college nel 1592. L'università ha formato molti dei poeti, drammaturghi e autori irlandesi di maggior successo, tra cui Oscar Wilde e Bram Stoker. La Sala Lunga è la camera principale lunga 65 metri della Biblioteca Vecchia, la Sala Lunga, fu costruita tra il 1712 e il 1732 e ospita 200.000 dei libri più antichi della Biblioteca. Inizialmente, la Sala Lunga aveva un soffitto piatto, scaffali per i libri solo al piano inferiore e una galleria aperta. Nel 1850 la stanza dovette essere ampliata man mano che gli scaffali furono riempiti perché alla Biblioteca era stato concesso il permesso di ottenere una copia gratuita di ogni libro che era stato pubblicato in Irlanda e Gran Bretagna. Nel 1860, il tetto della Sala Lunga fu rialzato per ospitare una galleria superiore. La Sala Lunga è fiancheggiata da busti di marmo.
Trinity College (Irish: Coláiste na Tríonóide), is the sole constituent college of the University of Dublin, a research university in Dublin, Ireland. Queen Elizabeth I founded the college in 1592. The university has educated many of Ireland's most successful poets, playwrights and authors, including Oscar Wilde and Bram Stoker. The Long Room is the 65-metre-long main chamber of the Old Library, the Long Room, was built between 1712 and 1732 and houses 200,000 of the Library's oldest books. Initially, The Long Room had a flat ceiling, shelving for books only on the lower level, and an open gallery. By the 1850s the room had to be expanded as the shelves were filled due to the fact that the Library had been given permission to obtain a free copy of every book that had been published in Ireland and Britain. In 1860, The Long Room's roof was raised to accommodate an upper gallery. The Long Room is lined with marble busts.