Sunday, February 15, 2009

It Is Said That Above Oblivion’s Tide There Is A Pier*




Fig. 1. James Ensor - Masks Confronting Death, 1888


'This is the valley of ashes - a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens: where ashes take the form of houses and chimneys and rising smoke, and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.'

F. Scott Fitzgerald (from The Great Gatsby)


* Above Oblivion's Tide there is a Pier by Emily Dickinson


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