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The underside of one of the Rock Creek Park bridges.

I call this photo, taken in July 2011:

"Rock Creek Bridge."

Underside of Rock Creek Bridge


212.

Another version of the underside of the same Rock Creek Park bridge.

I call this digital photo, also taken on July 2011:

"Rock Creek Bridge - 2."

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Historic Evening

For example, on whatever evening the naive tourist finds himself retired from our economic horrors, the hand of a virtuoso animates the harpsichord of the fields; they're playing cards at the bottom of the pond, mirror that conjures up queens and favorites, they have female saints, veils, and threads of harmony, and legendary chromaticisms, against the sunset.

He shudders at the passing of huntsmen and hordes. Comedy drips onto the trestles of the lawn. And the confusion of the poor and the weak at those stupid levels!

Arthur Rimbaud, Illuminations. (1886)

From "The Pleasures of Rimbaud," by Charles Rosen, in the New York Review of Books, August 18, 2011 at 32

Underside of Rock Creek Park Bridge - 2


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First posted: 7/29/2011

 

 

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