land of no horizon

June 26, 1903 – August 14, 1958

LA, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. Ludwig III 1, fol. 5r

D) The house was swept away!

Photography by John S. Barrington, London, 1957

Paul Almásy Shell Gas Station, Algeria 1962

Charles Breese. Day After Storm, ca 1860.

— have you tried the peat over here — yes. i have tried all of this peat — i do not think you have tried this peat. if you had tried it you would have remarked upon it — i have tried it — you would have said, "this peat is as salty as day's honest work, and as sweet as the first sip of vodka past my lips at sundown" — is that something i say? — yes. you say it all the time — i don't think i say it all the time — yes, you do. and you would have said it when you tried that peat — let me try it again, then — oh, now he's interested — mm. wow. ok — you're not going to say it? — say what — you know what — it's nice peat. no strong associations

Nothing can quench this light.

"White Night", Anna Akhmatova (translated by D. M. Thomas)

I was sure you’d come back. ]