American Idyll

yes, the river knows

Wednesday, December 07, 2011

Yet...

Grateful Dead: Playing in the Band 10/16/74 (1)
Grateful Dead: Playing in the Band 10/16/74 (2)
Grateful Dead: Playing in the Band 10/16/74 (3)


Then they wondered if there were men in the stars. Why not? And as creation is harmonious, the inhabitants of Sirius ought to be huge, those of Mars middle-sized, those of Venus very small. Unless it is the same everywhere. There are businessmen, police up there; people trade, fight, dethrone their kings.
Some shooting stars suddenly slid past, describing a course in the sky like the parabola of a monstrous rocket.
My word, said Bouvard, look at those worlds disappearing.
Pecuchet replied: If our world in its turn danced about, the citizens of the stars would be no more impressed than we are now. Ideas like that are rather humbling.
What is the point of it all?
Perhaps there isn’t a point.
Yet... and Pecuchet repeated the word two or three times, without finding anything more to say.
--Gustave Flaubert
Bouvard and Pécuchet

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from Horseshoe Mesa with pilgrim
Navajo rug
Tomb of the Unknown Hiker, Hermit Canyon
Hopi bowl

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