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Colonel Walter Kurtz, (Marlon Brando)
Apocalypse Now 1979 🎬

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Diagram of 'Illustrations of various forms of nihilism, with the word nihilism in the middle with arrows to knowledge, meaning and morality, all crossed out.

By chance I clicked on Wikipedia's word of the day. Nihilism. Such a topical choice.

We're all trapped in the fog of war, courtesy of a megalomaniac!

I lived in Tokyo. On the rare day I got home early I'd race up the street to my apartment building. If the sky was red and clear I'd open the door and call to my wife and son to come to the roof. There to the west stood Fuji san in all it's magnificent splendour silhouetted against the setting sun.

Everything comes to an end, even evil. 🕊️

But there are dreams that cannot be
And there are storms we cannot weather
I had a dream my life would be
So different from this hell I'm living
So different now from what it seemed
Now life has killed the dream
I dreamed...

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The Best Classic Thrillers If you love thrillers, you'll love the classics of the genre. Here are five, which, if you haven't read, will give you many hours of pleasure.

“The really good ones have very profound human themes that reach out to you across centuries and still matter now”
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A circular puddle on a muddy woodland path surrounded by trees & greenery. Reflected in the water a deep blue sky & nearby trees. The pathway is covered in dappled light, with darker shadows from the nearby tree branches. Around and on the puddle’s surface are tiny white blossom petals dotted like stars in a night sky.

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First edition cover for the 'Grapes of Wrath' (1939) by John Steinbeck. A farmer is standing, his wife and young son are sitting down beside him; they are all looking on as a wagon train of various cars and trucks pass by them. Many people are leaving the land with all of their possessions loaded, to find employment and a new life in California. 📚 Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on the Joads, a poor family of tenant farmers driven from their Oklahoma home by drought, economic hardship, agricultural industry changes, and bank foreclosures forcing tenant farmers out of work. Due to their nearly hopeless situation, and in part because they are trapped in the Dust Bowl, the Joads set out for California on the "mother road", along with thousands of other "Okies" seeking jobs, land, dignity, and a future. (Wikipedia)

"And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed."

John Steinbeck,
'The Grapes of Wrath' (1939) 📚

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A 21st century adaptation of the 10 of Swords. A woman lies on her side in a desolate landscape impaled by 10 swords, only she doesn't seem to notice her predicament as her attention is on the cell phone she is holding.

I've had this image tucked away on my hard drive for the past ten years. I found it again a couple of days ago and what do you know, - nothing has changed.
The 10 of Swords, - the 21st century version.

The morning mist hovers over the silhouetted vista as the distant mountains are woken by pre daybreak light. The waterway is calm as it holds the reflection while edged with auburn grasses.

The morning arrived 📷🕊️ …

A black and white photo of Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) and Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman), both are wearing hats, and staring intently at each other as they say their final goodbyes to each other at an Airport. Humphrey Bogart (1899 - 1957) and Ingrid Bergman (1915 - 1982) star in the Warner Brothers film 'Casablanca,' 1942. Popperfoto / Getty Images Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid. Filmed and set during World War II, it focuses on an American expatriate (Bogart) who must choose between his love for a woman (Bergman) and helping her husband (Henreid), a Czechoslovak resistance leader, escape from the Vichy-controlled city of Casablanca to continue his fight against the Nazis. The screenplay is based on Everybody Comes to Rick's, an unproduced stage play by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison. The supporting cast features Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, and Dooley Wilson. (Wikipedia) 🎬

"Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. Now, now. Here's looking at you, kid."

Richard Blaine, (Humphrey Bogart) Casablanca (1942)
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Understandably so mon ami. 💙

Such positive news Lynn, I'm so happy for you and your family. 💙

In Our Time - M.C. Escher - BBC Sounds The graphic artist's amazing paradoxical world, and the interplay between maths and art.

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M.C. Escher, Hand with Reflecting Sphere (Self-Portrait in Spherical Mirror), lithograph, 31,8 x 21,3 cm, January 1935 Hand with Reflecting Sphere is not just a self-portrait. In this lithograph, Escher is combining two realities: one from direct observation and one in the mirror. The print shows Escher’s right hand, which is holding a mirrored sphere (reversed by the litho print so that it looks like a left hand). Thanks to the reflection in this sphere, the artist can see himself and the room around him. This was Escher’s studio at 122 Via Alessandro Poerio in Rome. The convex reflection distorts the room: what is close up appears extra large, and what is farther away actually becomes smaller. Escher is seated in the centre, looking straight at us. Escher often made self-portraits with the aid of a spherical mirror. This enabled him to study himself and the world around him in detail. In his characteristic fashion, these prints by Escher are showing us unexpected aspects of reality. Hand with Reflecting Sphere | Museum Escher in The Palace https://share.google/iiFqRg8H0TiVOPNxX9

Maurits Cornelis (M.C.) Escher,
Dutch Graphic Artist,
(1898~1972)

'Hand with Reflecting Sphere' (Self-Portrait in Spherical Mirror), lithograph, 31,8 x 21,3 cm, January (1935)

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There are two things I miss about the
UK, other than friends and family.

1) Hills. Any type of hill. Even a hillock.

2) Small talk. There’s something specifically beautiful about random interactions with strangers - peppered with “love” or “bab” or “me duck” - that’s hard to replicate.

Julien Dupré, French painter, 1851-1910.
Les Glaneuses, At the Return of the Harvest, 1880.
Oil on canvas.
Private collection.

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📷 Painting and Fine Arts

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain... Time to die."

Roy Batty,
(Rutger Hauer)
Blade Runner (1982)

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"Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.
I speak of peace while covert enmity
Under the smile of safety wounds the world."

Henry IV (Part 2)

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I think they mixed up the photo with a Yes album cover.

That gal's so crooked she uses a corkscrew for a ruler. (Mae West) 😂

She saw it early.

Sigrid Schultz reported from Nazi Germany and warned Americans before most were ready to listen. 🗃️

Her story: https://www.pameladtoler.com/books/dragon-from-chicago/

This is so beautiful. Really worth a listen…

We have their Albums, they're fantastic together. 💙

Mother Courage and Her Children | Summer 2026 | What's On Michelle Terry leads in Anna Jordan's new Mother Courage And Her Children, Brecht's fierce, musical, anti-war protest play, directed by Elle While.

War rages. Resources are scarce. Hope is a luxury. Mother Courage drags her cart through a wasteland stripped bare by greed and conflict – a profiteer, a survivor, and a mother.

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A black and white photo of Bertolt Brecht at his type writer, he has a cigar in his mouth. Photo by: Grete Stern (1904~1999) German-Argentine photographer.

"Don't tell me peace has broken out."

Play by:
Bertolt Brecht & Margarete Steffin,
'Mother Courage And Her Children (1939)

The Best Climate Change Books | Five Books recommends Interviews with eminent scientists, innovators and environmental journalists on the subject of climate change – and the best books to read on the subject.

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Middle East conflict chokes end of supply chain as lights go out in the Pacific For Pacific Island countries, the Middle East crisis is not a distant geopolitical event. It is already showing up in higher fuel prices, electricity uncertainty and fears that communities sitting at ...

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For Pacific Island countries, the Middle East crisis is not a distant geopolitical event. It is already showing up in higher fuel prices, electricity uncertainty and fears that communities... could be pushed into deeper economic insecurity.
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