Thursday, October 13, 2011

poison

13 comments:

  1. But what a beautiful poison:) Lovely shot!

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  2. Beauty to die for???

    Love it, dear bro!

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  3. Maybe that weeds roots can live dormant for years and sprout from root like bindweed - I will have to print off your description for my file!
    Thanks!

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  4. If's it's oleander it is poison, beautiful capture.

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  5. Once again your color treatment is so original, subtle, sensitive. I'm in love with that signature creaminess!

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  6. Thanks for the warning! But these double oleander blooms are really beautiful.

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  7. Wow, I love them. Your blog is so beautiful. Thanks for your visit. Have a wonderful weekend.

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  8. "No single word in English captures the play of signification of the ancient Greek word, pharmakon. Derrida traces the meanings assigned to pharmakon in Plato's dialogues: remedy, poison (either the cure or the illness or its cause), philter, drug, recipe, charm, medicine, substance, spell, artificial color, and paint. The word pharmakon is overdetermined, signifying in so many ways that the very notion of signification gets overloaded. A translation problem? Yes and no. In choosing one meaning translators often decide what in Plato's texts remains undecidable. But as indicated above, the problem is inherent in its very principle, situated less in the translation from one language to another, than already within the Greek language itself."
    Marcel Cobussen

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  9. So I have been told, but mostly for sheep. So I have three in my garden ...

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  10. ps. as in a dream, i recall having already mentioned pharmakon in the Serendipitous Garden, in the past (or a mythical time?) - i am not sure, but it wouldn't surprise me, since the Garden itself is an incarnation of the pharmakon.

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  11. yes poison, but so beautiful ! have a nice week
    Prospero

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