There was too much that could happen

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“There was too much that could happen” – Under the Sign of the Moon by Tessa Hadley

8 thoughts on “There was too much that could happen

  1. Ah, I assume a hull depth scale near the bow of a boat or barge? I see it draws between 1.5 and 1.9 meters. But what is more fascinating is the missing plaques or messages on the scale. Perhaps these were indications of the amount of a cargo now long forgotten? Beautiful colors and textures in this photo.

    1. Aaah, I really never gave much thought to it though I took many photos of hulls.
      Here is the one that has been shown in CT – and no, no one was interested:
      http://scrappress.blogspot.de/2013/09/hull-mainz-gustavsburg-germany-2010-or.html

      But as so often your comment inspired me to do some research (ehem … go*gle) and here it is:

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft_(hull)

      These ships are by no way old or forgotten – the common barge seen around here at the Main and the Rhine. Cargo riverboat might be the correct term?

      Thank you.

      1. The textures, colors, and line draws my eye to this photo. That hull looks like it has seen eons of service and many a rough docking. It is past time for some fresh paint, but has more character this way, like the craggy face of an old man. Well done on getting your photo hung in a CT gallery. I would like to go see it, but it is almost as far away from me as it is from you. I’ll just have to be satisfied with Scrappress.

        1. Oh, the exhibition was last year. This was simply the most easy way to link to the photo.
          There is a photographer who has a whole series of hulls – if you are interested I will search the url.

          And no, nobody bought the print – like Carl Weese said: I have to stick to my day job ;-)

  2. I like the rope’s shadow.

    And the light.

    And the layers upon layers upon layers of paint. And the rust. They say “rust never sleeps” and I can just imagine dozens of tiny men, homunculuses or perhaps homunculi, getting to work every night while the world sleeps and while the boat bobs gently in the river night, and making the rust spread across the boat, molecule by molecule. Artists toiling to create a 3-dimensional canvas.

    And speaking of artists….it’s a really beautiful image.

    1. Thank you very much.

      My my, hey hey.

      I guess the leprechauns are the ones, not the homunculi. Homunculi rarely leave the lab.

      Now we have garden gnomes, mogwais, leprechauns and homunculi. This is going to be a very interesting movie. ;-)

      1. You’re damn straight it’s going to be an interesting movie. One of the reasons for that is that the tiny homunculi (not unlike the ‘We Free Men’ who appeared in one or possibly several of Terry Pratchett’s twistedly brilliant Discworld fantasy novels) – don’t live in the normal places that one associates with ‘the little people’ ….

        Instead, they congregate and reside in….semi-abandoned rusty riverboats……and also in (drumroll as the suspense builds) …. laboratories.

        The Homunculi who never leave the Lab!!!!

        And why, enquiring minds wish to know, is it that they never leave the Lab? Aha, that’s the story….but something tells me that they may be trapped as Lab assistants, in various biological, chemical, or medical laboratories, where they are condemned, by the powers of an ancient curse, to slave away through the night after the humans have left, running all the analyses and spectrophotometric readings which the lazy human Lab Techs can’t quite accomplish during their normal workday.

        The laboratory homunculi…….I like it.

        Plus, at the risk of repeating myself: I really like this photo. It stands up to repeated viewings.

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