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SIBYLLOGY: Life inside the Saussurean Bar.

“I want to tell you something which brought me no small comfort; perhaps this same thought can lessen your grief. When I was returning from Asia, sailing from Aegina toward Megara, I began to look at the regions all around me. Behind me was Aegina, in front was Megara, on the right Piraeus, on the left Corinth. These were once flourishing towns, but now they lay lifeless and ruined before my eyes. I began to think to myself: “Ah! Are we little men, whose lives are necessarily too brief, indignant if one of us dies or is killed, when in one place so many corpses of towns lie abandoned? Please pull yourself together, Servius, and remember that you were born a mortal man.” Believe me, I was strengthened considerably by this thought.” Servius Rufus in a letter to Cicero

A lofty Perch

The crow’s perch is the head of the statue of Jeanne d’Arc in Rouen, France – what intrigued me is how the statue seems to look straight up at the crow. I waited a long time, but the crow never did look down … . :-).

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  1. patoadam

    Great photo! You might argue that the crow deserves the credit, and you were just in the right place at the right time, but “luck favors the prepared mind.”

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