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To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. Henri Cartier-Bresson
Gone Fishin’

Gone Fishin’

That simply cannot be right.

That simply cannot be right.

Did a needle just enter me?

Did a needle just enter me?

Maybe the absence allowed for a mythology.

Maybe the absence allowed for a mythology.

Remember what that was like?

Remember what that was like?

I regret that we didn’t keep in better touch.

I regret that we didn’t keep in better touch.

Is that happiness? It’s a version.

Is that happiness? It’s a version.

I would be psyched to have one as a pet.

I would be psyched to have one as a pet.

What’s a typewriter?

What’s a typewriter?

Well, now I’ll have an answer.

Well, now I’ll have an answer.

Who knows why anything?

Who knows why anything?

Some people are like that.

Some people are like that.

He sold drinks and rented rooms.

He sold drinks and rented rooms.

He did not mind dancing alone.

He did not mind dancing alone.

It was very easy to tell that he was a fairy.

It was very easy to tell that he was a fairy.

It was he who danced alone.

It was he who danced alone.

But she lives by it.

But she lives by it.

This is of course a metaphor.

This is of course a metaphor.

She is tall and handsome and sly and courageous.

She is tall and handsome and sly and courageous.

At fourteen he was brave but reckless.

At fourteen he was brave but reckless.

Aren’t we all friends here?

Aren’t we all friends here?

Even if it’s for only an hour or so.

Even if it’s for only an hour or so.

All humans, no matter what they do, like very much to be liked.

All humans, no matter what they do, like very much to be liked.

No matter where in the world.

No matter where in the world.

Night, too, has its advantages.

Night, too, has its advantages.

At sunset we are all still together.

At sunset we are all still together.

“And always a village, never a town.”

“And always a village, never a town.”

Her eyes, opaquely glinting in the moonlight.

Her eyes, opaquely glinting in the moonlight.

Again his mind felt overrun by the lapping waves of time.

Again his mind felt overrun by the lapping waves of time.

This was a bad breakup.

This was a bad breakup.

It had taken years before their affair was truly over.

It had taken years before their affair was truly over.

You had to really cultivate an ending.

You had to really cultivate an ending.

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