In the second photo, you can see the statue of Louis Cyr in the background.">
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"Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonising preoccupation with self."
Iris Murdoch, The Nice and The Good
What sort of diary should I like mine to be? Something loose-knit and yet not slovenly, so elastic that it will embrace anything, solemn, slight or beautiful, that comes into my mind. I should like it to resemble some deep old desk or capacious hold-all, in which one flings a mass of odds and ends without looking them through. I should like to come back, after a year or two, and find that the collection had sorted itself and refined itself and coalesced, as such deposits so mysteriously do, into a mould, transparent enough to reflect the light of our life, and yet steady, tranquil compounds with the aloofness of a work of art. The main requisite, I think, on reading my old volumes, is not to play the part of a censor, but to write as the mood comes or of anything whatever; since I was curious to find how I went for things put in haphazard, and found the significance to lie where I never saw it at the time.
V. Woolf
" She strung the afternoon on the necklace of memorable days, which was not too long for her to be able to recall this one or that one; this view, that city; to finger it, to feel it, to savour, sighing, the quality that made it unique."
Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being
"Why did I write any of my books, after all? For the sake of the pleasure, for the sake of the difficulty. I have no social purpose, no moral message; I've no general ideas to exploit, I just like composing riddles with elegant solutions."
Vladamir Nabokov
2000 years I lived here and I have to move now? Can you imagine just how much stuff I have in my attic? It's gonna take months!!
Just like to add, I really don't think knocking churches down to build "social housing" is a particularly good idea, but I'm sure Jesus probably would, as SLG just pointed out. :)
Since we're throwing opinions about, I'm all in favour of knocking down places of worship in order to provide social housing. Unless, of course, the building can simply be converted. Yep, I'd like to prosletyse for the poor to be housed now, not promised it'll be all right when they're dead.
i can no longer look at these types of statues without thinking about Buddy Christ.
Apparently he's scheduled to rassle Louis Cyr!
Factotum adds that, yes, this statue is being moved from diagonally across the intersection from the statue of Louis Cyr shown here:
http://moblog.co.uk/view.php?id=145686
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my very first Moblog photograph!
I read an article this morning that explains that the cardboard inscription on the fence in the bottom photographs is the work of artist Karen Spencer. The article, about public art in Montreal, can be found here
http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2007/11/29/taking-it-to-the-streets/