nd a few memories...
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On 28 January 2016 at 11:14, Jez Cunningham <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Last time we went from Belgium so we stayed overnight - just across the
> road in (what was) the only hotel in the village. So we went in an hour
> before closing one evening and first thing in the morning the next day when
> it was almost empty.
> The coach parties of foreign (mostly Asian) tourists seem to be allowed in
> via a back entrance so we were surprised to find them inside when we
> emerged from the main entrance. Maybe pre-paid tickets get you in that way.
> OMG - just looked back and found it was in August 2009. If I tell my wife
> she'll have me over there next week!
>
> On 28 January 2016 at 10:14, philippe.amard <philippe.amard@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>> Le 28 janv. 16 à 07:24, ChrisB a écrit :
>>
>> That poem is rather lovely, Moose.
>>>
>>
>> Yup!
>>
>>
>> That link is useful, Jez, although the images didn’t load for me.
>>>
>>> In the manner of ...
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/Playground/2016-Best+Wishes-Amard-.jpg.html
>>
>> and the place
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/Philichromes/2014-Phililychrome-Giverny-6359.jpg.html
>> and next two
>>
>>
>> I’ve visited his house at Giverny and it is a beautiful place; we stayed
>>> not far away, on the river at Les Andelys, a place on the apex of a meander
>>> of the Seine. It was a thoroughly peaceful and restful place to be.
>>>
>>>
>> Indeed! Even if a bit somewhat to a certain extent crowded ;-)
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/396237-2/WW-Selfie-Double+Take-6338.jpg
>>
>> Amities
>> Philippe
>>
>>
>>
>> Chris
>>> (I do hate the term “back story”, though. “Background” was useful
>>> enough and less ugly.)
>>>
>>> On 27 Jan 16, at 22:13, Jez Cunningham <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The back story is equally fascinating...
>>>> http://psych.ucalgary.ca/PACE/VA-Lab/AVDE-Website/Monet.html
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 27/01/2016, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Monet Refuses the Operation
>>>>>
>>>>> Doctor, you say that there are no halos
>>>>> around the streetlights in Paris
>>>>> and what I see is an aberration
>>>>> caused by old age, an affliction.
>>>>> I tell you it has taken me all my life
>>>>> to arrive at the vision of gas lamps as angels,
>>>>> to soften and blur and finally banish
>>>>> the edges you regret I don't see,
>>>>> to learn that the line I called the horizon
>>>>> does not exist and sky and water,
>>>>> so long apart, are the same state of being.
>>>>> Fifty-four years before I could see
>>>>> Rouen cathedral is built
>>>>> of parallel shafts of sun,
>>>>> and now you want to restore
>>>>> my youthful errors: fixed
>>>>> notions of top and bottom,
>>>>> the illusion of three-dimensional space,
>>>>> wisteria separate
>>>>> from the bridge it covers.
>>>>> What can I say to convince you
>>>>> the Houses of Parliament dissolve
>>>>> night after night to become
>>>>> the fluid dream of the Thames?
>>>>> I will not return to a universe
>>>>> of objects that don't know each other,
>>>>> as if islands were not the lost children
>>>>> of one great continent. The world
>>>>> is flux, and light becomes what it touches,
>>>>> becomes water, lilies on water,
>>>>> above and below water,
>>>>> becomes lilac and mauve and yellow
>>>>> and white and cerulean lamps,
>>>>> small fists passing sunlight
>>>>> so quickly to one another
>>>>> that it would take long, streaming hair
>>>>> inside my brush to catch it.
>>>>> To paint the speed of light!
>>>>> Our weighted shapes, these verticals,
>>>>> burn to mix with air
>>>>> and changes our bones, skin, clothes
>>>>> to gases. Doctor,
>>>>> if only you could see
>>>>> how heaven pulls earth into its arms
>>>>> and how infinitely the heart expands
>>>>> to claim this world, blue vapor without end.
>>>>>
>>>>> - Lisel Mueller
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>> One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to
>> the eye. Antoine de Saint Exupéry in Le Petit Prince.
>> NO ARCHIVE
>>
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