"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." ~George Bernard Shaw

"Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time." ~Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn


Sunday, August 19, 2012

Magpie Tales #131- The Oracle

Under Windsor Bridge, 1912, by Adolphe Valette

The oracle looks
Seeing past mist and fog
Global chaos 
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World War I began two years after this was painted.
The world has never been the same since.
For other's takes on this moody painting go here:

24 comments:

  1. Anonymous1:41 PM

    the best time for the oracle to see the future is through the fog

    under windsor bridge senryu

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  2. Anonymous1:50 PM

    i'm glad you don't have the verification. i put a comment up before? but where did it go?

    did u see my contribution to the MAG? - Click on this -
    under windsor bridge senryu

    thanks for your kind words about the dogs. i have another two, but these were the ones that were dumped on the street. people will dump any kind of dog on the street!!

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  3. Anonymous1:51 PM

    oh, oK, so now you saw it.

    yup. politics will make you crazy!!!

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  4. so can the oracle tell me if it is really happening right before christmas? i mean why waste time shopping then you know...smiles....

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  5. oh hahah Brian smiles right back!
    no reference to the Mayan calendar-rather the time before Wordl War I.

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  6. The oracle knows!

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  7. I think your words go perfectly with this picture, and your poem is a wonderful indicator of the horrible war about to descend on humanity. Is this a painting? It looks like an early photograph.

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  8. I like the notion of the guy in the painting being an oracle...nice...

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  9. I love seeing all the takes on this. On oracle seeing is an original take :).

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  10. Yes, this does look like the beginning of the end..you really nailed it! Oracles are hard to come by these days, I trust you!!

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  11. You've brought the dark side of this picture really well!

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  12. Like this idea of the oracle peering into the mist...hoping to discern the upcoming events.
    Hugs
    SueAnn

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  13. In praise of Second Sight, perhaps? :)

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  14. Yes he could be peering earnestly into the future! Sad that WWII was
    forthcoming.

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  15. sometimes oracles see more than is good for us.

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  16. The Oracle could be seeing the economic chaos of today.

    Nice take on this prompt.

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  17. ... the GREAT War ~ and the shaping of the 20th Century.

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  18. I feel like we're all peering into the mist a bit these days...We could use an oracle, methinks.

    =)

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  19. Ther burden boirne by the oracle to foresee such suffering.

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  20. Wow Karhe, creepy ! , i remember reading Carl Jung had a crightening dresm that the world was burning just becore ww2, these seers see it coming , eh ! , well done

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  21. The industrial revolution produced the machinery that made the future of war so different. Interesting that for a painter who could not see clearly, he certainly understood the ramifications of war machinery. A poignant poem, Kathe. Thank you for sharing.

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  22. Amazing isn't it how so much can change all around the world and there, and still thankfully the bridge stands serving proudly!

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  23. A fine (and part-scary) Magpie!

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  24. Ah, we know so much and yet so little. Nice take on the prompt!

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