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Purity Obscurity

April 19, 2025 – 3:30 pm

The covers of the books named just below, showing a stern bearded face (Aristotle), a wrench like a flower on a stem among leaves (Pirsig), a dirt road lined with brick buildings (Eliot)
Books taken up in this post:

Aristotle’s Poetics,
George Eliot’s Middlemarch,
Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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Impressionism

June 17, 2015 – 3:10 pm

I went early to the office on Tuesday morning, June 17, 2015. On Harzemşah Sokağı in the Merkez (Center) Mahalle of Şişli, Istanbul, I paused to note a cafe decorated with the “Luncheon of the Boating Party.”

Reproduction of “Boating Party” on wall of an alcove; folded chairs below

That alcove from the street

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By David Pierce | Posted in Education, Istanbul, Visual Art, West Virginia | Also tagged , , , , , | Comments (8)