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Sunday, June 6, 2010

Just Some Photos

I went to the Houses of Parliament one night and got some really great shots.

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Labels: Houses of Parliament, London, movie night, Thames

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The optimistic self-delusion that had kept him from misery was seen now in the golden garments of stern resolution.

O Russet Witch! by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The verses told only of the night and the balmy breeze and the maiden lustre of the moon. Some undefined sorrow was hidden in the hearts of the protagonists as they stood in silence beneath the leafless trees and when the moment of farewell had come the kiss, which had been withheld by one, was given by both.

A Portrait of the Artists as a Young Man by James Joyce

. . . he felt in his heart the soft peace of silent spaces of fading tenuous sky above the waters, of oceanic silence, of swallows flying through the seadusk over the flowing waters.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

A full moon drenched the road to the lusterless color of platinum, and late-blooming harvest flowers breathed into the motionless air aromas that were like low, half-heard laughter.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald

. . . I thought that I had lived in a world as it was and there were all kinds of people in it and I tried to understand them, although some of them I could not like and some I still hated.

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

. . . but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

- Atticus Finch

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The trees were sculpture without their leaves when you were reconciled to them, and the winter winds blew across the surfaces of the ponds and the fountains blew in the bright light.

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

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