People of the Hills XXVI: Wedding guests crowd out of a window to watch events below. Bari Nehri village, Indian Himalayas.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Søren Kierkegaard, Journals IV A 164 (1843).
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Love is itself unmoving,
Only the cause and end of movement,
Timeless, and undesiring.
TS Eliot, from ‘Burnt Norton’ the first poem of Four Quartets (1943).
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Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
I can only say, there we have been: but I cannot say where. And I cannot say, how long, for that is to place it in time.
TS Eliot, from ‘Burnt Norton’ the first poem of Four Quartets (1943).
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People of the Hills XXV: Young woman listening to a family conversation. Bari Nehri village, Indian Himalayas. Redolent of the work of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii documenting the Russian empire a century ago.
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6Physicists now say there is no such thing as time; everything co-exists. Chronology is entirely artificial and essentially determined by emotion. Contiguity suggests layers of things, the past and present somehow coalescing or co-existing.
WG Sebald, from notes compiled by his students (2001).
Clouds at dusk. Looking north. Valley of Gods, Indian Himalayas.
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The Bhubu Pass. Nine and half thousand feet above sea level. This Himalayan pass goes into the Kangra Valley and was an ancient trade route before the modern roads were built. Looking west.
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The Colours of India: Two sisters outside their house. Kashamdhar village. Himalayas.
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People of the Hills XXIV: Old man in Bhoolang village. Indian Himalayas. Rendered in the style of a Daguerreotype.
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