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The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.
Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but it is also their means of communication. … Every separation is a link.
Simone Weil in Gravity and Grace
Song: “Concrete Walls” by Fever Ray
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The pyramids of Giza, imagined by Kircher based on traveler’s reports, from Sphinx Mystagoga (1676)
(via archivalia)
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A man walks through a destroyed city in Germany looking for food, 1945, by Werner Bischof.
