Tag: unbearable

• Crudeness of Art

  

  “Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.” – George Bernard Shaw On close inspection undepicted in the pictures, passers-by have scribbled crass comments below the masterpieces. Which I could not understand. Which drove me senseless. An approval of ribaldry? Or a subversion of the fact ordinary humans cannot accept the salacious…

  VIKTORIA JEAN

  January 17, 2014

  Europe, Frankfurt, Musing, Travel

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• 141. lightness of being

  “The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life’s most intense fulfillment. …What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness?” -Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being   Took a short detour to the after-dark playground just to sit on the swings, which creaked so bad I felt like a scene in a horror…

  VIKTORIA JEAN

  November 6, 2012

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  being, lightness, milan kundera, playground, rainbows, swings, unbearable