god save strawberry jam...

the years will pass insensibly

Do not be grieved, old friend. I have not failed. I have succeeded. You cannot think with what zest I look forward to life, how full it seems to me and how significant. Sometimes, when you are married to Isabel, you will think of me. I shall build myself a house on my coral island and I shall live there, looking after my trees -- getting the fruit out of the nuts in the same old way that they have done for unnumbered years -- I shall grow all sorts of things in my garden, and I shall fish. There will be enough work to keep me busy and not enough to make me dull. I shall have my books and Eva, and children, I hope, and above all, the infinite variety of the sea and the sky, the freshness of the dawn and the beauty of the sunset, and the rich magnificence of the night. I shall make a garden out of what so short a while ago was a wilderness. I shall have created something. The years will pass insensibly, and when I am an old man I hope I shall be able to look back on a happy, simple, peaceful life. In my small way I too shall have lived in beauty. Do you think it is so little to have enjoyed contentment? We know that it will profit a man little if he gain the whole world and lose his soul. I think I have won mine.

--W. Somerset Maugham: The Fall of Edward Barnard

the fallen cow

school

«Fühlen Sie sich an den Rand gedrängt?»
«Wo anders soll man leben?»

spatiotemporal order

«Verschieden im Menschenleben sind weder die Fakta noch die inneren Zustände, sondern ihre raumzeitliche Anordnung. Individuum ist ein Ablauf, eine Variation. Fertig mit seinem Tod.»

--Robert Musil (aus den Tagebüchern)

canon 50/1.4 ltm. wide open.

grootberg

Bazylika Bożego Ciała

march 2009.

ribbon

nowy cmentarz żydowski. january 2010.

wake up!

Leitz, Elmar 50/3.5, red scale