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Glory to the rails
Millions of Ukrainians left the country during the first weeks of the invasion; four million were evacuated by train, including a million children. Thousands of dogs, cats and other pets, too.
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Child Kings
« Time is a child playing draughts; the kingship is a child’s. »
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Fables of wickedness for a liquid Europe
A story about traps
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Of trotting horses & angelic words
I was reminded of Muybridge’s moving pictures while looking at the serial attempts of Ambrogio Lorenzetti (d. 1348/49) at rendering the invisible visible.
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