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Tag Archives: Proust
Smell – A Potent Wizard
Jan Brueghel and Peter Paul Rubens, “Smell” “A sigh isn’t just a sigh. We inhale the world and breathe out meaning. While we can. While we can.” Salman Rushdie, “The Moor’s Last Sigh” Helen Keller compared the sense of smell … Continue reading
Posted in Smell
Tagged bear smell, frankincense, incense, Perfume: the Story of a Murderer, Proust, Süskind, scent, sense of smell, Smell, snake smell, symbolism, symbols
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Thinking of Love
This malady which Swann’s love had become had so proliferated, was so closely interwoven with all his habits, with all his actions, with his thoughts, his health, his sleep, his life, even with what he hoped for after his death, … Continue reading
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Tagged archetypes, astrology, Astrology of Fate, Cancer, destiny, Grand Water Trine, Liz Greene, love, passion, Proust, symbols, uroboros
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Images of the Zodiac: Contemplating Cancer
It is 1975, a glorious spring in Istanbul. Kemal, member of one of the city’s wealthiest families, is about to become engaged to Sibel, daughter of another prominent family, when he encounters Füsun, a beautiful shop assistant and a distant … Continue reading
Posted in Johfra Bosschart
Tagged archetypes, Artemis, astrology, Cancer, Johfra, Johfra Bosschart, Moon, Pamuk, pearl, Proust, scarab, symbols symbolism, the Great Mother, the Museum of Innocence, tortoise, Zodiac
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