LakeSlake

René Magritte, Hegel's Holiday, 1958

When going to bed, I used to have a glass of water on the bedside table in case I got thirsty, and one glass without water in case I didn't.  

Now I'll have one 3/4s full when I'm feeling lucky, Punk, and 1/3 empty when I've given into my pessimiStreak.

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Last night I dreamt I was Emma Peel from The Avengers.  I'd bought a large house in Oxford, which was being remodelled in parts.  My mission involved hiding a micro-camera under the umbrella (similar to the one in the painting), attached to one of the metal bits in the frame, go out on a specific rainy day, & meet the object of my underhanded, spying, ways.  

The builders who were working on the house, however, started to move the bed where the microcamera was hidden, and I could no longer find it.

Why can't it rain in lake form, instead of millions of drops everywhere?  The rain in lake form would last a few seconds and no umbrella would be needed.  But that'd mean no Magritte paintings featuring an umbrella.

Remorse Code

Salvador Dalì, Remorse or Sunken Sphinx, 1931

W.B. Yeats

Breasal the Fisherman 

Although you hide in the ebb and flow
Of the pale tide when the moon has set,
The people of coming days will know
About the casting out of my net,
And how you have leaped times out of mind
Over the little silver cords,
And think that you were hard and unkind,
And blame you with many bitter words.

Before & After

René Magritte, The Lovers, 1928

Bonnard, L'homme et la femme, 1900