INTIMATE SOLITUDE

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Jeff L. Aug 28, 2006, 3:09am EDT

that picture pretty much says everything about modern industrial society.

David D. Gilbaugh Aug 28, 2006, 3:16am EDT

Thanks Jeff
A period of industry at the expense of self. I appreciate the dark lush back ground and somber muted shading. Most impressive are the grayed smog stained hoods.

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joy c. Aug 28, 2006, 4:54am EDT

A picture indees says more than a thousand words.Isnt this our post modernist fate?

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Selenaa M Aug 28, 2006, 5:10am EDT

Nice poem and lovely picture.

Rene Magritte did paint some more pictures like the one above....

Sad and lonely and together......

Your words sum it up in a nice way! Thank you for sharing. :)

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John F Walter Aug 28, 2006, 6:57am EDT

This Magriitte painting, one of my favorite's of his, says so much by shrouding the faces, in a way eerily reminescent of modern terrorists who decaptitate their victims. Who is the victim, or the terrorist?
Your poem is precise and harrowing, more than a comment on the painting for sure.

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George Corneliussen Aug 28, 2006, 10:23am EDT

Gives a new meaning to "the hood".

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David D. Gilbaugh Aug 28, 2006, 11:07am EDT

Joy
Simply to be known, it seems so simple. So why is so complicted?

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Jim Ross Aug 28, 2006, 2:43pm EDT

A well known condition, Douglas, handled beautifully in your poem.

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David D. Gilbaugh Aug 28, 2006, 3:30pm EDT

Thank you Jim
Les Amants by Rene Magritte seems to speak to dozens of meanings and yet speaks of a dual theme of isolation and loss of self to society in every case.

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