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powgrl [2008-11-18 16:57:00 +0000 UTC]
The mood, the symmetry of the tree trunks all excellent!
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MYLermontov [2008-11-17 20:31:52 +0000 UTC]
Did you intend a sense of foreboding? I never thought I would look at Luxembourg and feel so ... I don't know ... anxious, sad. It's like a dream I don't want to remember, caught in the symmetry, the chadows and emptiness.
Or is it just me?
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EricForFriends In reply to MYLermontov [2008-11-17 20:57:25 +0000 UTC]
Well, to be honest, I had a sad funeral a couple of days ago - not someone very close to me, but sad nevertheless. Half and half I had intended this as an In Memoriam, but I decided against it because it wasn't something that the person would have liked, it would have been a bit dishonest and I didn't want to splurge out drama with big brush.
So, as I don't want to spoil your memory of the Luxembourg (like I don't want to spoil my own), it's not as much about the Parc or about death, as it is about missing people. Not the loud people are so very much there when they're there, but the quiet people you hardly notice when the other kind is around, whose absence is more felt than their presence.
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MYLermontov In reply to EricForFriends [2008-11-18 20:38:29 +0000 UTC]
There is certainly no thought on my part that you might spoil a vision of Luxembourg. I would say you stretched my perception. We're probably both at an age where we begin to notice people in our lives quietly slipping away. Not the way it was in earlier years when the loss would come as a shocking surprise. In fact it is very like a park, once teeming with human activity, that gradually begins to empty. At first you don't notice unless it's someone you expected to meet, but soon the absences take on space of there own.
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EricForFriends In reply to MYLermontov [2008-11-20 10:30:09 +0000 UTC]
Yes, that's very true... I have a cremation tomorrow, exactly a week after that funeral. A beautifully phrased comment, thank you!
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