These fragments I have shored against my ruins. -T.S. Eliot

These fragments I have shored against my ruins.  -T.S. Eliot

Friday, May 11, 2012

Foreignness


















Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.

-Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities


Image: Georgiana Kelly, Bodleian Library, Oxford