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Nicolas Robert
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Writer & translator. Art, music, the natural world, the state of the world. "So the paradox is, it's much easier to imagine the end of all life on earth than a much more modest radical change in capitalism.“ ~ Slavoj Žižek
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 32m
‘Portrait of Carl Moll.’ #Painting by Oskar Kokoschka (1913) #art
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 39m
‘A Hint At What Is Beautiful’ by Yoonoos Peerbocus (b. 1941)...

#Photography, Patti Smith, ‘Jesse with Flower,’ 2003.
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 46m
I sit before flowers

hoping they will train me in the art

of opening up.

~ Shane Koyczan, from ‘The Student.’

#Photography, ‘Assia’ by Dora Maar (1907-1997).
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 52m
#Photography by Per Carlsen #art
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 57m
‘RH,’ ‘Godfrey’ & ‘Coffee.’ #Painting by Frances Borden #art
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 1h
Botanical #painting by Christine So #art
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 18h
Human life & objects & trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing. There exists a meaning, hidden from day to day, but accessible in moments of greatest attentiveness, in those moments when consciousness loves the world.

~ A. Zagajewski

#Photography
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 19h
Anne Lamott (b. 1954)...

#Photography
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 19h
Through tattered clothes small vices do appear.
Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,
And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks.
Arm it in rags, a pygmy’s straw does pierce it.

~ William Shakespeare, King Lear

#Illustration from Pictorial Press.
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 19h
‘Tracing Morocco.’ #Streetart by Hendrik Beikirch in #Paris #art
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 19h
#Sculpture by Audrius Janušonis #art
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 19h
Members of the ‘Vienna Secession’: L-R: Anton Nowak, Gustav Klimt (in the chair), Koloman Moser, Adolf Böhm, Maximilian Lenz (reclining), Ernst Stöhr, Wilhelm List, Emil Orlik, Maximilian Kurzweil, Leopold Stolba, Carl Moll (reclining), Rudolf Bacher.

#Photography by Moritz Nähr (1902) #art
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 19h
‘Leopoldine Steindl-Moser, the Artist's Sister, Sewing.’ #Painting by Koloman Moser (c. 1895) #art
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 20h
‘Portrait of Greta Ahlman.’ #Painting by Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1898) #art
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 1d
It's nice to see all those friends in your garden, Yoshimi, have a good Wednesday!
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 1d
Well, strictly speaking, we use subjunctive mood/bare infinitive after a suggestion or recommendation (it could also be “we suggested that he SHOULD go...”. But, honestly, Yoshimi, for me BOTH go and goes are correct in your sentence! This grammar really is not so important in my opinion...🙂
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 1d
‘Sleeping in the Forest’ by Mary Oliver (1935-2019)...

Colour woodcut #art by Tsukioka Kogyo, ‘Fireflies,’ 1910.
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 1d
The subjunctive nearly always follows certain phrases, Yoshimi, eg, ‘I LIKE doING’ something (I like cycling/reading/watching etc) or ‘I ENJOY doING’ something (I enjoy walking in the forest/by the sea etc) or ‘I'm KEEN ON’ doING something (I'm keen on playing the piano/painting flowers etc)...
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 1d
Peace is not an absence of war.
It is a virtue,
a state of mind,
a disposition for benevolence,
trust, and justice.

~ Spinoza (1632-1677)

#Photography, Spinoza house, The Hague.
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 1d
‘Portrait of Yvonne Seys.’ #Painting by Fernand Khnopff (1890) #art
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 1d
Having a break from writing at the moment, Yoshimi, I'm working on translations & proof-reading, but also plenty of reading, cycling, walking & films...🙂
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 1d
#Photography from the ‘Burma’ series by Hans-Christian Schink #art #sculpture
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 1d
‘Coral’ & ‘Plunge.’ #Painting by William Ireland (1927-2015) #art⁣
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 1d
‘Portrait of a Woman.’ #Painting by Franz von Stuck⁣ (1892) #art
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 1d
Indeed. Plenty of potential for injury too…
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