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A quotation from Orwell

   In the queerest way, pleasure and disgust are linked together. The human body is beautiful: it is also repulsive and ridiculous, a fact which can be verified at any swimming pool. The sexual organs are objects of desire and also of loathing, so much so that in many languages, if not in all languages, their names are used as words of abuse. Meat is delicious, but a butcher’s shop makes one feel sick: and indeed all our food springs ultimately from dung and dead bodies, the two things which of all others seem to us the most horrible. A child, when it is past the infantile stage but still looking at the world with fresh eyes, is moved by horror almost as often as by wonder – horror of snot and spittle, of the dogs’ excrement on the pavement, the dying toad full of maggots, the sweaty smell of grown-ups, the hideousness of old men, with their bald heads and bulbous noses.
   In his endless harping on disease, dirt and deformity, Swift is not actually inventing anything, he is merely leaving something out.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1946-09), “Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver’s Travels,” Polemic, No. 5

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WIST Quotations · Essay (1946-09), "Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels," Polemic, No. 5 - Orwell, George | WIST QuotationsIn the queerest way, pleasure and disgust are linked together. The human body is beautiful: it is also repulsive and ridiculous, a fact which can be verified at any swimming pool. The sexual organs are objects of desire and also of loathing, so much so that in many languages, if…
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A quotation from Ellis Peters

The step from perfectly ordinary things into the miraculous seems to me so small, almost accidental, that I wonder why it astonishes you at all, or why you trouble to reason about it. If it were reasonable it could not be miraculous, could it?

Ellis Peters (1913-1995) English writer, translator [pseud. of Edith Mary Pargeter, who also wrote under the names John Redfern, Jolyon Carr, Peter Benedict]
The Holy Thief, ch. 10 [Aline] (1992)

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WandelArie
Gooood morning Oisterwijk!

Het is niet nat en niet koud. Wel 5°C! Iets met geen wind, gewenning en veel laagjes ☺️ En bewolking, dus helaas geen spectaculaire zonsopkomst. Wel een prachtige zonsondergang gisteren. Dan die maar bij de koffie ☕️

#2025 #wandelarie #12stedentocht #nomad #ohtheplacesillgo #arieinwonderland #wander #wonder #wonderland #wandelen #mobileoffice #onderweg #rolls #rollsrolley #schrittgeschwindigkeit #enjoy #life #twaalfstedentocht #zin #zen #zijn #ambuloergosum
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Jomes
I'm back in Germany! Over the next days (weeks?) I'll be posting photos of my trip to #Egypt. I took almost 2k photos, so there's a lot to show. Here're three photos of the first day. The #PyramidsOfGiza were our first station on day one and wow. What a way to kick of this vacation. Words cannot describe the feeling of standing in front of them.

#vacation #history #AncientEgypt #travelling #travel #TripDiary #Giza #TravelPhotography #MobilePhotography #sky #sun #wonder

Edit: has pixelfed fucked an update up, cos the photos do not look like I uploaded them. What are these formats and where's the rest of my photos...
Horizontal landscape photo of two of the three big Pyramids of Giza. The photo shows them from an unusal side angle. There's a sandy desert plane in front of the pyramids and both of them seem to be behind a small hill. A small dark speck in front of the right one is actually a camel. The lighting is pale and the blue sky looks almost milky white with a thick layer of dust and smog at the horizon. There are no sharp edges and clear colours. The sun is out of frame and only shines upon one of three visible sides of the pyramids.
The photo is taken very close to the big pyramid, looking up one side to the top. It's basically just a huge wall of giant sand stones forming a barely recognizable triangle. A group of people is standing in front and on top of the first row of stones for scale, showing how incredible high the pyramid reaches and how gigantic the blocks of stone are. The sky is blue and the sun peeks into the frame from the left as a blindingly white spot.
The photo is a close up photo of one of the blocks of sandstone with two arms reaching into the frame, showing how the fingertips touch the stone. The smaller hand and arm are a very pale skin tone. The bigger hand with a dark watch and a hairy arm are more tanned. Yes, we took a "Holy shit we're touching the pyramids" photo 😁
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