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Oscar Wilde *X 16 1854 — The Life You Give
Oscar Wilde, born Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde, October 16, 1854, Dublin, Ireland—died November 30, 1900, Paris, France), Irish wit, poet, and dramatist whose reputation rests on his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), and on his comic masterpieces Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). He was a…
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Claudius
Clouds are masses afloat. Cloudy is when clouds block the sun, and impart a state on some souls, by which a lesser joy is present. Claudius — I will say — is when clouds take on an attractive aesthetic power onto the eyes, seeming to be a single body, almost an institution, and do not…
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Retaining the unique beauty of the fruits from golden rain trees as photographic documents, that is the best I am willing to do
They can easily be used for decoration, as many do with dried flowers and branches. Their fruits may be roasted, and eaten. The most I will do is capture them in pictures.
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Paul Simon *X 13 1941 — The Life You Give
Paul Simon, born Paul Frederic Simon, October 13, 1941, in Newark, New Jersey, U.S.A., is the singer-songwriter who brought a highbrow sensibility to rock music. One of the most paradoxical figures in rock-and-roll history, Simon exemplified many of the principles against which the music initially reacted. From his first big hit, “The Sounds of Silence,”…
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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan *X 13 1948 — The Life You Give
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, born Pervez Fateh Ali Khan, October 13, 1948, in Lyallpur [now Faisalabad], Pakistan, is the singer considered to have been one of the greatest performers of qawwali, a Sufi Muslim devotional music characterized by simple melodies, forceful rhythms, and energetic improvisations that encourage a state of euphoria in the listener. Nusrat’s…
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Luciano Pavarotti *X 12 1935 — The Life You Give
Luciano Pavarotti, born October 12, 1935, in Modena, Italy, is the operatic lyric tenor who was considered one of the finest bel canto opera singers of the 20th century. Even in the highest register, his voice was noted for its purity of tone, and his concerts, recordings, and television appearances—which provided him ample opportunity to…
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Fifty Years: Thoughts and Sounds of 1974
Fifty years ago there was a very different life pulse. I remember the year well. As it seems to be at any given time, the dynamic of daily life during the year of 1974 appeared to be much less consequential then than we are likely to admit today in retrospect. This is what memories are…
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uncivilized technology dumping
nine scooters dispersed on a single corner
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