the emotional blackmailers handbook

of the seven deadly sins, the eighth and worst by far is emotional blackmail ... the diligent practise of this subtle and ancient art creates a constantly evolving darwinistic moral vacuum in which the brightest new manipulative ideas and stratagems flourish ... and which only you, or i, can fill !

Saturday, July 15, 2006

looks comfy

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new bells

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nice sign

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a sweet fancy

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reclining lady by botero

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nice shop front

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although i'd copied this zodiac from photographs before, i'd failed to notice the face on the scorpion's back

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jeff koons nine foot high balloon dog

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peggy guggenheim

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the photo was taken by david seymour of magnum there are some fantastically good things in her museum  

peggy's giacommetti ... possibly his best

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peggy had all these glass figurines made in imitation of figures created by picasso

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what's he so happy about ?

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Friday, July 14, 2006

away from the steam bath of venice by train into the dolomites

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stazione per l'alpago, an old station on the railway from venice to calazo de cadore

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the terminus at calalzo de cadore

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must be about seventy miles from venice ... the journey takes two and a half hours but cost only fifteen euros

at the house where titian was born

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while we were in this house, in pieve de cadore, about three miles up the hill from calalzo, a young red haired woman was speaking to her re...
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light and shade

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in the window of a bar where divers meet

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as poised as gondoliers

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a distant view of salute from schiavoni

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