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Photographers Unknown, His Butt: Beguiling the Senses and Enchanting the Mind: Photo Set Twenty Eight
“All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide
like the moon cannot stop oceanic tide;
but a hidden star can still be smiling
at night’s black spell on darkness, beguiling”
―
A Subjective Experience
“Human consciousness cannot be a passive observer of the outer world, just interpreting the input signals that are being received by the brain from the external world. Rather, it compares the fitness of a person’s inner world — feelings, perception, imagination, dreams, desires, etc. — with the external world, allegedly accepted as ‘objective reality’ outside individual consciousness. However, such an objective reality cannot be so objective as it is believed to be. Due to various internal processes to achieve a balance between the inner and outer worlds, consciousness insensibly changes the physical characteristics of reality, making it a subjective phenomenon, at least to a large extent. For this reason, in order to determine what is real (outside of human consciousness) and what is just a subjective experience, it is actually a difficult job.”
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Photographer Unknown, (The Silver Screen and the Red Jockstrap)
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Increasing the Appeal
“Sensuality is subjective. What turns you on won’t appeal or make sense to everyone. Not everyone will find your brand of sensuality cute, intoxicating or even morally acceptable, and that’s ok. Just do you, nonetheless.”
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Photographers Unknown, Beguiling the Senses and Enchanting the Mind: Photo Set Six
“Be happy, cried the Nightingale, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart’s-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty. Flame-coloured are his wings, and coloured like flame is his body. His lips are sweet as honey, and his breath is like frankincense.”
–Oscar Wilde, The Nightingale and the Rose
Photographers Unknown, Beguiling the Senses and Enchanting the Mind: Photo Set Five
“All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide
like the moon cannot stop oceanic tide;
but a hidden star can still be smiling
at night’s black spell on darkness, beguiling”
—Munia Khan
Photographer Unknown, (The Raised Sweatshirt)
“He lifted his shirt, and on his back was the White Rabbit, wearing his waistcoat and looking at his watch. It was just like the illustration from the book. Only standing next to him, back-to-back, was another White Rabbit wearing a leather motercycle jacket and boots and smoking a cigar.”
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Photographers Unknown, Beguiling the Senses and Enchanting the Mind: Photo Set Four
“We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.”
– Denis Diderot
Photographer Unknown, (Hand on Skin)
“What comfort there is in the skin of someone you love!”
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Photographers Unknown, Concentration and Spontaneity
“The erotic state – again, a mixture of concentration and spontaneity – is a hypnoidal state, probably the most powerful kind that we are capable of experiencing, and it is in this condition that unexpected regions of the self are revealed, as the majority of people know from experience.”
Peter Redgrove, The Black Goddess and the Unseen Real: Our Uncommon Senses and Their Common Sense
Photographer Unknown, (The Letter C)
Photographer Unknown, (After Hours)
“In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It’s important to combine the two in just the right amount.”
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Photographer Unknown, (Evening Light)
“He liked however the open shutters; he opened everywhere those Mrs. Muldoon had closed, closing them as carefully afterwards, so that she shouldn’t notice: he liked–oh this he did like, and above all in the upper rooms!–the sense of the hard silver of the autumn stars through the window-panes, and scarcely less the flare of the street-lamps below, the white electric lustre which it would have taken curtains to keep out. This was human actual social; this was of the world he had lived in, and he was more at his ease certainly for the countenance, coldly general and impersonal, that all the while and in spite of his detachment it seemed to give him.”
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Photographer Unknown, (Briefly Blue and White)
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Photographer Unknown, (A Decorative Flourish)
A flourish of approval, or a ‘krul’, is mostly a Dutch symbol used for grading schoolwork ot to show that one has seen and agreed with a paragraph. Historians believe that the symbol, first appearing in the early 19th century’s bureaucracy, derived from a hastily written ‘g’ which would stand for good (good) or seen (gezien). Dispite its usage throughout the country and its former colonies there is no unicode symbol for it.